I don’t disagree but Damn CIA thinks that Russia is almost a peer ( as far as nukes) but Coli Military analysts know the real tea.They under the assumption that Russia can pull of a nuke arsenal which is not the case. Putin sold out Russia military for as long he has been in power. This is the 21st century, Putin still think throwing endless bodies will win the war when sht graduated to Drones etc..
Country is collasping. He need to revert from the war and continue to build trade with Africa and China. Reestablish the country. He will die by this Ukraine because he once stated Ukraine is Russia.
The fukked up thing is that this is a fake war where $bothsides tries out it’s technology against peer competitors.
Yes If there was any time to push the button this would be it. Uke’s are told not to bomb cities or even civilian energy targets Russkies are told not to use Nukes
neither side is acting like they really want to do what it takes to win.
Take the Kursk operation. They advanced and held ground for what was supposed to be a raid that turned into a bargaining chip. Either those 12k Norks got damn good quickly ( they did) and or the Uke’s couldn’t sustain the prestige operation and needed those dudes to defend Ukrainain soil so they made an hasty yet orderly withdrawal.
The fact that almost no one was captured shows that the Uke's basically dipped from Russia.