Putin reminds the West Russia has nukes

Vladimir Putin has upped the rhetoric by a magnitude of ten. Referring to the danger of a war between Russia and Nato in Europe, he acknowledged that there was no comparison between Russia's conventional military might and Nato's. But then he added that he always had his nukes. This is crazy talk. If he is actually contemplating escalating the Ukraine crisis to a nuclear war, the Russian leader must have left all common sense under his bed. Does he want a redesigned Grand Russia or annihilation for all? For the leader of a superpower to threaten a nuclear strike it shows how desperate Putin has become to persuade Nato to stop expanding and to scrap alliance membership plans for Ukraine. No one, not even Putin, can believe that threatening to use nuclear weapons is going to solve anything. It was an outrageous remark and, hopefully, every Russian general will feel the same as the rest of us, that such a warning will inflame what is already a dangerous security crisis. It's time everyone calmed down. Britain is rushing Royal Marines, fighter aircraft and warships to eastern Europe, nearly 2,000 paratroopers from the US 82nd Airborne Division are already arriving in Poland. It'll likely be tanks and short-range ballistic missiles next if Putin continues to increase the size of the would-be invasion force on Ukraine's borders. It makes me wonder what Trump would have done were he still president, especially as he was so rude about Nato. Would he have cowtowed to Putin or would he have sent an armoured division to Ukraine to face the Russians? We will never know. The one thing that worries me is that Biden made it clear from the very beginning that the US/Nato would never send troops to Ukraine tself, just to the surrounding alliance countries. With Putin threatening to turn to nukes, would the dispatching of a US armoured division to sit on the Ukraine/Russia border force Putin to back down or encourage him to launch a full-scale war with the West in Europe? Biden has rejected any such move, so, again, we will never know.