I got attacked on this board a couple of weeks ago for scaremongering. I don't remember the poster. CBA to look back.
We are teetering on the brink. NATO staying out as long as it can, but Putin is not going to stop with Ukraine. China meanwhile sitting in the background.
If this goes nuclear we are finished.
Putin loves being alive. You can see this in the distance he has insisted from others during the pandemic and now exaggerated in wartime meetings.
He loves his daughters enough to have tried to hide their identities.
He apparently loves St. Petersburg, Moscow and Russia.
He is a loose cannon and 'might' be capable of a tactical nuke but will know that there would be an equal response.
He is playing poker with the west, believing we are weak because of previous lack of action and has betted upon the same - in my opinion. I think Putin's Russia is finished, its just a matter of when.