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by LemmyInThePub 1220 days ago
> And in the event of a potential UA victory the use of tactical nuclear weapons from RU seem likely.

No.

The ISW consider Russia using nuclear weapons to be extremally unlikely; the Russian rhetoric around them simply being to provoke western fear (and thus delay the sending of western weapons), as you have so aptly demonstrated.

The ISW publish daily reports on the Ukraine war that are well worth reading

https://www.understandingwar.org/

A recent assessment by ISW of Putins nuclear threats are here:

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/special-report...