Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Remember how Russia said they were absolutely NOT planning to invade about 12 days ago?

Given that Ukraine is a non-NATO, I suppose there's no concrete reason why Russia couldn't drop a small nuke somewhere on Ukraine (that's 'small' as nukes go). This would be in the circumstance where they insist on fighting an unwinnable war that sees their ability to finance a standard ground invasion vastly diminished, due to sanctions, and the Ukrainians getting a constant supply of shiny new weapons, plus many ethnic Ukrainians and foreign fighters coming back to fight the good fight, and many mini Stalingrads taking place throughout the country.

In this situation, you would have a kind of protracted stalemate, and Russia's name would already be dirt on the international stage, so would Putin say, 'f*ck it'? It would certainly be a most extreme scenario. Not that I see it getting to that point. Cooler heads must prevail sooner rather than later, but I don't know how Ukraine and Russia will ever have good relations in any of our lifetimes.

Maybe Russia jumped the gun ,

China have gone a massive militarisation over the last decade and jumped way ahead of Russia in military deployments why else would china need 10 -20 aircraft carrier and hundred of long range bombers to protect themselves ,or to bring their military to other countries who don't agree with their way of doing things,they are not just trying to counter the US in the region they are planning a massive power projection ,I'm sure they are sitting there wondering why they are cosying up to putin when he's just proved to the world , Russia hasn't got the ability to fight a real war outside of their own border .let alone getting into a fight with China and NATO , Japan and Korea and other asian players.

WOW! So let Putin take back all the former USSR countries under Russian ownership?

Your defeatist attitude is laughable please don't become a politican!

She said "we are already in World War 3" right?

We are at Day 11 of a Russia v Ukraine war. It is a silly needless comment. She is making no sense. There is nothing to suggest it will escalate into WW3 and a nuclear war.

To your point, WW2 had a fairly definite start point. Hitler invaded Poland on September 1. In response, Great Britain and France declared war on Germany on September 3, at 11:00 AM and at 5:00 PM, respectively. 

He put off his invasion so that it wouldn't make the Olympics awkward for China. Is it plausible he would carry out a unilateral nuclear strike because he's a sore loser? There is no incentive for Russia to launch a nuclear strike, only extremely severe downsides.

They have them and have already shown he won't use them. He threatened unimaginable consequences for those that helped Ukraine. Where are those? He asked for the nuclear arms to be readied. They weren't. He a psycho but he's not stupid. Everyone on that chain will have to be happen in the knowledge that their kids, parents, wives will never see another day. It's all big talk until you're told to kill 8 billion people.

Nukes are the only reason that Russia can even attempt this. Why on earth would they give them up?

Russia: "We don't want NATO buildup on our borders."

NATO: "Okay, we won't build NATO up on countries bordering you as long as you agree to never invade them and they remain neutral ground."

Russia: "Deal."

Russia: invades anyway

NATO: "We had a deal"

Russia: "but I feel threatened by them and you based entirely on their reactions towards my aggressive actions that are totally warranted. Shut up or ill nuke you

Dublin man: de nazifies the gate of the Russian Embassy in Dublin

The Embassy: This a clear and blatant violation of the Article 22 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic relations of 1961..

"The incident is cause of extreme concern. We believe that no people of sound mind could support such senseless and barbaric actions."

FFS

It's not like Spitting Image with a big red button with one single mad person in charge. It's a long chain of command where everyone in it agrees to commit suicide. Extremely unlikely.

Sorry but I dont think you understand what it means to raze a city. It takes serious sustained heavy bombardment over a long period of time. The cities are flattened, levelled or wiped out entirely. Think Hiroshima, Dresden, Warsaw, Aleppo. You would be talking destruction rates in excess of 80-90%% of all buildings. Russia for several reasons have not used their heavy bombers yet. Which Ukrainian cities have been razed?

He can't drop a nuc on people he is rescuing, he can't drop it either way without massive military reaction.