[Seanambers]

One of the things that is being shattered in Ukraine right now besides the Russian Army is the Russian self image. Now that's a powerful thing to lose. Russians have believed that they were a strong important country, now, the truth is here and it turns out they are weak and unimportant. Unable to project any sort of believable conventional power onto the world.

The soviet union was obviously strong militarily with wast sphere of influence, but Russia has not filled its shoes at all.

All the years of corruption and greed shows.

In that backlight, using tactical nuclear weapons will at least let the regime assert some kind of might.

One can wonder if Putin at all has or had a true image of Russian military capability.

[bmitc]

> One can wonder if Putin at all has or had a true image of Russian military capability.

It is highly unlikely he has. But in the end, it is his own fault for creating that environment.