(#4781) It was always going to boil down to this with putin!

      If you think giving putin Ukraine and that he will stop his onslaught across Europe you are not paying attention. putin wants to rebuild and expand the old soviet union and Ukraine is the first step toward that goal. As long as we stay shaking behind our grandma's knees because of nuclear threats by putin then the greater the emboldenment of putin will grow. Bullies need to be confronted and although they may have the weapons to destroy most of Earth they cannot be allowed to exist under that threat. Instead they need to know that if they play out a nuclear strategy they will be met with a nuclear threat themselves. They must face the realization that if they want to become the destroyer of the world we will blow them into smithereens!
     There will be no Russia left for putin to exist in and if half or more of the planet pays the price for his decision to fire nuclear weapons then that is on him. Many of us will not survive and that is the existence we live in. This scenario has been with me my whole life so I have always known that it could happen at any time so this is not new to me. I expect that if putin wants to take what he wants and is not allowed to do so he may well decide that living on Earth is not worth it and take the many of us with him. However, will the military strategists that back him allow him to fire nuclear weapons? I doubt it since they are not being rewarded by being obliterated.
     The only way to deal with a bully like putin is to give him a steely eyed glare and tell him to do his worst and communicate to him that everything we and our allies have will come down on his head to end him and his nation as a livable place. Most likely more than half of the civilized world will be destroyed but there will be nothing left of Russia that can be inhabited. A mutually assured destruction where we in the west will at least have some habitable areas to continue life but Russia will be nothing but a bad memory. Once putin realizes that we will return the nuclear option with a ferocity upon him he will blink first and then back down on that threat. Otherwise bring it on motherfucker!