In the US, JCS chief Milley and some other guy (SecDef?) made a deal between them - and informed underlings - that if Trump reaches for nukes, nothing is released without the okay of one of them.
I wonder if there is a similar firewall of sanity between Putin and nukes. I mean, at some point he's goin' down. Isn't he?
Ironically he was probably the least likely of the last 6-7 presidents of resorting to nukes. Trump is a lot of awful things but you can’t really say he is a warmonger. If anything, the use of nukes would undermine his reputation as a deal maker. His ego would never survive the obvious dealmaking failure that the use of nukes would mean.
I wonder if there is a similar firewall of sanity between Putin and nukes. I mean, at some point he's goin' down. Isn't he?