A broken clock is right twice a day.

I doubt Putin will press the red button. Even Xi Jinping gets irritated whenever Putin threatens with nuclear weapons and tells him to stop with the obvious bluff.

Using nukes even against Ukraine will literally piss everyone off. It will make Russia even more pariah.

Winston Churchill’s government did not hold an election during six years of World War 2, but we didn’t see any shred of crocodile tears about it.