re: #308 Decatur Deb

If we force the Ukrainians to a compromise he stays in power. If he hits NATO, we are at war. If he goes with nukes anywhere, we have decisions to make.

I believe we will not force Ukraine to compromise, though I don’t know how much military support we will provide if they have routed the Russian army and are besieging Sevastopol. Putin isn’t going to attack NATO because he has nothing left to attack with. I also believe he won’t use nukes because he doesn’t even know himself which, if any of them, actually work. The US spends $10 billion annually on nuclear weapon maintenance, and the Russian maintenance budget was probably stolen by its generals. I don’t think Putin is irrational; he just made a bad decision based on misinformation and his own hubris and prejudice against Ukraine.