[T-A]

No idea, but here's a plausible train of thought:

"Somebody" just proved himself willing and able to hurl nukes at large population centers for no rational reason. Do we cower, pray and hope his psychosis won't target us next, or do we try to take him out as fast as we can?

[sinyug]

> no rational reason.

Nuking Paris/London is irrational. The thought process behind nuking Stockholm can be defended.

[T-A]

> The thought process behind nuking Stockholm can be defended.

How?

[sinyug]

> How?

It would be a demonstration of what would happen to Western population centers if the West crosses any red lines drawn by Putin. He is done with 25 years of poking and prodding and has already warned Sweden and Finland about severe consequences if they join NATO.

It doesn't have to be Stockholm. Any city in the region with 50,000 inhabitants or more delivers the same message: this is my backyard and you shall not interfere.

[T-A]

> a demonstration of what would happen to Western population centers

Because nobody has seen the photos from Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Anyone claiming the need for such a "demonstration" is clearly irrational and needs to be dealt with accordingly.

[sinyug]

> Anyone claiming the need for such a "demonstration" is clearly irrational

Some would say that interfering in a territorial conflict between a nuclear power and its neighbor is an irrational act by itself.

[T-A]

Yes, the same kind of person who would say that the thought process behind committing mass murder to "demonstrate" what everybody already knows "can be defended".