[z3n]

Blustering like that tells me that the Ukraine invasion is very probable. It's the only reason he would make such a geopolitically inflammatory statement like that. He wants to create deterrence to any intervention at all making evyerone fear escalation. It may or may not be a bluff but why would anyone use nukes???

[packagingguy]

He may be telling the truth but the United States has never had a Commander in Chief like Joe Biden. Putin thinks he can stand up against Joe?

[ClearCase_guy]

I like Putin better than Biden. Putin seems actually very sensible.

I don’t think any big politicians are nice people. Heck, Jimmy Carter put on a good act, but he wasn’t a nice guy. Putin isn’t a nice guy. But I don’t see the slightest chance that he would launch a first strike against us. But I do see at least some possibility that Biden would consider a first strike against Russia.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: The world always has Bad Guys. And right now, I consider the USA to be one of the chief Bad Guys in the world. Russia? I don’t see them that way.

[dforest]

Sounds like he said “if you use them right back at ya”.