[romland]

Great translation, and could possibly be interesting to confirm a handful of things that are guesses. Like others, I am, however, skeptical as to whether this is a genuine whistleblower. Essentially the piece says mostly things the west knows, thinks it knows or wants to think it knows.

So, I found myself reading it again looking for what the key piece of fear, uncertainty or doubt they could want to sow.

I think it would be this one:

> Does the possibility of a localised nuclear strike exist? > Yes.

Dangling the Silver Bullets will put fear in civilians and politicians alike. The obvious hope is that it will change narrative and negotiations.

> it's not one person who makes the decision, at least one person will refuse. And there's many people there, there isn't some "single red button".

I've read conflicting words on this one the last few days (from supposed Russian sources), the latest I saw when asked if Putin can trigger it by himself was someone saying "we don't know" and in the next breath "it's complicated".

I believe this is the only point of the piece.