You can tell that Putin is getting a bit desperate when he rattles the nuclear threat. While he ordered in public his military to put his nukes in ready status, whatever that actually means (aren't they more or less ready all the time?) he is trying to intimidate the West.
With his puppet out of the White House, he might be led on by the somewhat traitorous depiction of how weak Biden is on radical right-wing media. First, he is clearly not as depicted and while no one is hoping for a nuclear exchange, he and everyone of his generation learned the lesson of appeasement.
We are not sending in troops but we have imposed sanctions that are clearly hurting. Maybe he was fooled by all the coverage of how Americans are incensed by the inflation and increase in gas prices. I would prefer that gas be cheaper but not a repeat of the economic slowdown we had because of the pandemic.
Putin lives in a country without a free press, and he probably doesn't understand one when he sees it. The negative reporting is what we do.
It doesn't impact our resolve.
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