[Skybird]

I have red it, Kai, and the things you quoted in bold. But I find the logic flawed. As I see it, if we do it, it does not teach the Russian Hitler any moral, but he would see it as a sign of weakness that encouragse him to press on. NATO then just would have said it would not retaliate, hasn't it? So then why not pressing it harder?

We need to use the lesson from Kennedy and the Cuba crisis here. Stay unmoved and determined on the core issue - missiles in Cuba: no way - but offer a secondary hidden tit for tat to break the deadlock. I have no clue what that could be.



Because the final problem is: that needs a sane and rationally calculating mind, and Putin seems to have lost his. He makes mistake after mistake. He seems to be delusional. He cannot be the one we adress. We must adress the circle around him and hope they are not as braindead as their master, so that they rebel against him.


And another complicaiton: The Russians have three nuclear suitcases, media say. One has Putin, one has the defence minister Shoigu, a close friend (if Putin has that), and if these two activate theirs, then the third suitcase in hands of chief of staff Gerasimov acitvates and gives access to the codes. The complication is that apparently this system may have been changed and only one instead of two suitcases is needed to launch the sequence. We must take into account that Putin can press the button all alone, without a second man as safety. If Gerasimov obeys.



Putin must be taken out, and that can only happen from within his circle.