Ever notice that the only people calling for and predicting Russian use of nuclear weapons are the most staunch of Russophilians?
No one can win a war by first use of a nuclear weapon.
People who think so are wrong. Nuclear weapon use, even one, will lead to that—and every major power’s-death and destruction.
Putin isn’t stupid. If you admire him, you should know that.
You cannot be that touched in the head. Nobody is predicting anything. We only know, unlike you, that a cornered animal will lash out in a desperate attempt to keep from being killed.
How many times have you said to yourself, "if they come after me, I'm taking some of them with me?" Would Putin be more likely or less likely to think that way.
If you wage war against a nuclear power, at some point when one side gets the upper hand, the other side will use the ultimate weapon. Why have a weapon if it will never be used.
Maybe you are too sheltered to know that the Soviets prepared to survive nuclear war whereas we accepted the loser strategy of duck and cover (bend over and kiss it goodbye). The Soviet Union gave mandatory civil Defense training to the population. The had TV learning shows with instructions on how to improvise a blast shelter and what to do in the event of an attack. As a test they moved factories to the hinterlands and buried the machines under yards of dirt to be dug up and put back into use after the war, to prove it was feasible. They evacuated a city to prove they could do it.
The Russians have always been better at surviving nuclear war and as such would be much more likely to use that option. They even still remember how to survive through starvation and famine.
Here is a declassified .pdf document from 1959 on the CIA.GOV website.
CIVIL DEFENSE IN THE SOVIET UNION
I am not a Russophile. I would rather develop a friend as we were doing with Russia until the Globalists and Neocons took government away from us.