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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If we get more involved per Zelensky's request this morning -- do we really think Putin will use the nuclear option?  Is he really that crazy?  [/quote]

Not a chance.

We don’t just watch US media in our house.  We monitor international  news from Europe (in German).

While sensationalist US news sources reported Putin recently put Russian nuclear forces on alert, the US sources failed to explain the meaning of that alert.

European news explained the relevant alert system goes from 0 to 5.  Putin elevated it from 0 to 1.  Moreover, that move cost Putin virtually nothing in Rubles/dollars, but it certainly had value as a threat against Western intervention.  It was essentially a cost-free bluff.  It is meaningless.[/quote]

Sure.  Everyone who has seen the movie war games understands this.  But the move has meaning.  Sure it is free but it increases the pressure.  The US did not move our at all in response as we would have in the Cold War.  Not because we are peaceful people but because it is somewhat meaningless.  But it does mean that Putin is putting them on the table.  That is a step that no leader ever did in the Cold War absent a fear that the other side was about to shoot.  [/quote]

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