I am baffled as to why Russia has not already used tactical nukes in the Ukraine.
They could do so with military impunity and would lose far fewer men.
It’s not like anyone from NATO would lift a finger.
Xi told him flat no. Modi told him don’t as this risks WWII.
I can only imagine the world outrage, even BRICS, if that happened.
They still can’t stop bitching about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 80 years ago.
You cannot assume this is a zero some game with only NATO.
Tactical weapons use would prove once and for all that Russia is truly an oriental despotism that has not now, nor ever has had, an affinity for the West. Ironically, it is another oriental despotism, China, that is advising Putin against the use of nukes. Russia might be a despotism but it is only a bastardized Mongol state as far as China is concerned.