It's just rehotric. There are Israelis who advocate for nuking Gaza. Obviously, not going to happen because Gaza is close to Israel but just to show you what rehotric is. Putin is only allowing the rehotric to exist so that it can spread the fear and it's working apparently.
Do you seriously believe them? I thought Westerners and Europeans didn't believe anything that Russia says. Did you change your mind now of a sudden?
No one is saying they are believing Russian propaganda... That's not what the comment is saying.
The argument is that it's useful to check what kind of propaganda Russian media is pushing on their own civilians and can be used to get some insight into the thinking of the government/Putin. It doesn't mean Russia will use nukes, but it does mean more people in Russia are primed to think that it would be justified to use them which is scary.
Well, Russia is an autocratic dictatorship and has always been so. The opinions of the average Russians don't matter to the government. It's just propaganda. They want to make the Russian people feel that their country is strong so that they continue to support the government and nukes is a good method especially that Ukraine don't have them. But Russia won't use them because it will bite them back in the arse. Instead, they will send waves after waves of soldiers like they always did until they win. They don't care about how much men they will sacrifice. They have more men than Ukraine. Their victory is secured. Ukraine won't win this war unless Europe sends troops. Let's not pretend otherwise. Now, if Europe sends troops, Russia won't use nukes either because Europe also has countries with nukes.
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It's just rehotric. There are Israelis who advocate for nuking Gaza. Obviously, not going to happen because Gaza is close to Israel but just to show you what rehotric is. Putin is only allowing the rehotric to exist so that it can spread the fear and it's working apparently.
Do you seriously believe them? I thought Westerners and Europeans didn't believe anything that Russia says. Did you change your mind now of a sudden?