“There is zero tactical value in a nuke for the Russians.”
Seems to me Russia’s withholding natural gas from Europe will get them what they want.
“There is zero tactical value in a nuke for the Russians.”
Tactical value no, there is however a strategic one.
It is the demonstration of the will to use such a weapon.
Those nations that have them brandish them but are
constrained by the very thought of their power.
Putin, Iran, are like the crazy guy on the subway,
no constraint.