CIA: Putin could go nuclear if he's losing

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… odds are that Putin would go nuclear before accepting defeat at the hands of the Ukrainians.

Putin could use nuclear weapon if he felt war being lost – US intelligence chief
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/10/putin-nuclear-…

Vladimir Putin could view the prospect of defeat in Ukraine as an existential threat to his regime, potentially triggering his resort to using a nuclear weapon, the top US intelligence official has warned.

The warning on Tuesday came in an assessment from intelligence chiefs briefing the Senate on worldwide threats. The prediction for Ukraine was a long, gruelling war of attrition, which could lead to increasingly volatile acts of escalation from Putin, including full mobilisation, the imposition of martial law, and – if the Russian leader felt the war was going against him, endangering his position in Moscow – even the use of a nuclear warhead.

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he warning on Tuesday came in an assessment from intelligence chiefs briefing the Senate on worldwide threats. The prediction for Ukraine was a long, gruelling war of attrition, which could lead to increasingly volatile acts of escalation from Putin, including full mobilisation, the imposition of martial law, and – if the Russian leader felt the war was going against him, endangering his position in Moscow – even the use of a nuclear warhead.

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Putin will be destroyed (and most of Moskava) if he orders any nuclear strike. I think he will be assassinated by his own military people before he orders any nuclear strike.

Jaak