re: #115 Targetpractice

Kinzinger’s argument basically boils down to “Putin isn’t crazy enough to go nuclear if we get involved in the war militarily.” The counter-argument is that a sane man wouldn’t have started this war in the first place.

The “red line” is generally agreed to be if Putin goes after a NATO country. But I confess, I have doubts about that.

If he does, let’s say, one of the Baltic states, how long do you think it’ll be before we start hearing, “Oh, but it’s just Estonia (or Latvia or Lithuania), yeah they’re NATO….but……..”

Regardless of the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of the Russian Army, Putin knows all he has to do is keep shouting, “I have nukes! Give me what I want or else!!” and until someone stands up and says, “LOL no, then you can kiss Nizhny Novgorod goodbye” Putin is going to continue doing this - he knows that there’s a sizeable contingent of the “peace at any price” crowd.