Putin threatens to use nuclear weapons

[Tomconroy]

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This is from the Financial Times. The comments indicate this is standard Putin playbook when things go badly.

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[TheBlackAdder]

1. This guy sounds like DPRK's Rocket Man!

[JohnSJ]

2. and we and the world need to make it very clear to him that if he uses nuclear weapons he and Russia

will suffer unimaginable consequences

It is really time for China to step in to try and mediate this insanity

[TheBlackAdder]

8. The way he shits on his own people and keeps them poor, I don't think he really cares.

[NCDem47]

10. No one is making money and living bling lifestyle if the earth is literal toast.

[JohnSJ]

11. He may not, but we need to make him and the Russians know we are not bluffing

[Hav]

18. I wish they would but so far they are silent bystanders

and rather on Putin's side. China may just wait and pick up the pieces of whatever is left from the world if all goes to shit.

[C_U_L8R]

3. When are the Ides of March?

I don't know if the world can wait that long. This menace needs to be removed. Will the Russian military do it or is it going to get messy?

[Hugin]

16. Not for a couple of weeks yet.

13th - 15th. Only the 15th if you are a purist.

[Quixote1818]

4. One of the postis in that thread

The defence chief will remove him, backed by the KGB and army, if he carries on like this. I will put money on that.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

5. That is my opinion as well.

I can't see Putin getting out of this mess of his own making successfully at this point.

[JohnSJ]

12. I hope so

[sop]

6. I think we're watching Putin committing political suicide in real time.

I hope sane people around him can control this crazy MFer before he blows up the world.

[randr]

7. PutIn

Needs to be PutDown

[Samrob]

13. Threating to nuke sanctions is pretty desperate. This is such a huge threat to mankind that a

special ops operation to hunt him down and kill him should not be off the table. Everything is relative and everything is relevant.

[Emile]

14. He needs to be taken out.

He is being a world wide threat.

[dwayneb]

15. Would Putin choose to fire a nuke?

It's the age old MAD scenario we've feared since the Trinity test way back in 1945.

In my opinion we have to call his bluff. If he lobs a nuke - so be it. If the modern world is destroyed in a nuclear war - so be it.

Maybe it's easier for me to say this since I'm an old geezer and I have had my time in the sun.

We cannot idly sit back and watch a megalomaniac like Putin put us under the boot. Even if the worst comes to pass. What sort of world would it be for our children and their future generations if we allow that to happen?

[Hugin]

17. The idea of 'tactical' nukes has crept back into the doctrine.

Pissing in your own beer is also back from what I have come to understand.