> The Russians are stuck, so yeah they’ll have to up the ante to save face. <
Either that or Putin will be deposed in a military coup.
I don't think so. Putin is too strong and too paranoid.
Or some Dolittle type effort catches him.
There are much cooler heads among his paid off and paying to him (resentfully am sure) who would like to be rid of this fossil from his original job as head of KGB in East Germany- Hq’d in... Dresden.
This fascination with returning to the “good old days of Stalin” is not supported with the many years since the Soviet fall of it’s own incompetence.
The Chernobyl route of assault reminded all Ukrainians and the whole world what disdain Putinites and oligarchs hold the people of Ukraine— to have utterly mis-managed a poor design graphite cooled reactor and let it lay waste to 100 miles circle around Chernobyl, and the drifting cloud destroying all of Lapland’s milk and dairy industry.
Now the SOB’s mercenaries drove through Chernobyl and churned up another “climate change” radioactive plume. Seriously. The answer cannot be to use NUKES on Ukraine. Putin will be surely stopped as he is nutso.