re: #512 Hecuba’s daughter

He’s going for total war. If there are any Russian military or oligarchs who have a sliver of conscience or morality, now is the time to take him out, before he levels Kyiv with a nuke to eliminate Zelenskyy.

that would be, for Putin, the kiss of death. the horrors presented by a nuclear bomb over a besieged city would force the U.S. to go tit-for-tat, and that’s understood by both militaries. Nuking a capital city would result in us nuking Moscow in return. We would have to. Absolutely no way you could let Russia get away with not only killing several million civilians but also putting a radioactive crater in a place where Western and Northern Europe will be dealing with the fallout for generations.