To return so easily and so often to the nuclear option is to broadcast you have no other options.
Same, Russia has lost all credibility when threatening nukes. Also why would they (NATO) blockade Kaliningrad, as he stated NATO is a defensive alliance
I don’t think that the target receiver of that thread was NATO, nor any other entity outside of Russia, but the Russian population instead.
Propaganda 1x1: Build up an external aggressive foe (even if fictional) to make your population united behind you and allow implementing otherwise unthinkable drastic domestic measures.
They didn’t take Russia seriously about the war posturing before the Ukraine attack
Some did.
But with the amount of “threats” putin made about dropping nukes, it is quite clear that it is nothing more than a bad attempt to scare.
Cause they know that if they ever dared to drop a nuke, they would get a retaliation from every corner of the planet.
That’s mad.
Yet he claim Iran is a threat
a threat to solitary, intersection, mutual aid, and energy independence.
nobody should.
we all played MAD. threats no longer work.
you either doom yourself nuking, or negotiate.
