Could you please be a little clearer?
If you are saying, "The pitiful performance of and general incompetence displayed by Putin's conventional forces in invading Ukraine justifies our doubting the security and effectiveness of Russia's nuclear forces," then I heartily agree!
Putin's adventurism has done nothing to enhance Russia's security (if that what this was all about). On the contrary, Putin's unprovoked invasion of a free and sovereign nation bordering his own has almost guaranteed that that nation will eventually enter into NATO's fold. Further, Finland and Sweden - two long-time hold-outs - have now also acceded to NATO, thus more than doubling NATO's border with Russia, bottling up the Baltic Sea, and totally isolating the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
With the exception of rogue states like North Korea and Iran, the World has reacted with nothing but disgust towards Putin's war-mongering.
Russia's naval presence in the Black Sea has been effectively cancelled. Russia has alienated any friends it may have once had on its borders. Putin will go down in the history books as having totally isolated Russia on the world stage, weakened its military strength, lessened its geopolitical influence, and ruined its international image.
Almost two years into his "Special Military Operation," and he has nothing but humiliation, defeat, and death to show for it.
Bravo, Putin! [spits]
Regards,
In China, Xi has carefully avoided significant commitments to Putin’s war. It probably did not improve Putin/Xi relations that the Chinese tires on the Russian trucks headed for Kiev in Feb. 2022 were a total failure. In the link below you will see Videos referring to Chinese equipment, even aircraft carriers as like “bad tofu” that crumbles into pieces.
From the looks of things Xi has similar problems of poor military equipment, and with massive unemployment has even cut military and police salaries in half. The link below offers many videos indicating just how bad things are these days in China. As I scrolled back to videos offered 3 months ago it is obvious how things were worrysome back then and seem to only have gotten worse for the situations this week. Of course Covid and draconian shutdowns and even locking people in their homes did not lay a good groundwork for the present, but foreign companies have also decided to leave en mass or get their goods from Vietnam, India and elsewhere. These Videos are all bad news. Does anyone have any positive information on China or confirmation of this bad news? Last night 60 Minutes had a segment on large numbers of Chinese illegally crossing our southern border. They looked rather middle class and some spoke reasonable English and pulled good suitcases with wheels.
https://www.youtube.com/@ChinaObserver0/videos