So is Putin spending 20 billion per day over mercenary, separatist, and Chechen guerilla fighters? If Putin only doing these to annex Ukraine then I must say he is dumb. But is that really that simple? I do not think so. What if Putin attacks Poland or other Eastern NATO countries with Belarus?
Sending them to commit suicide.
Unlike Ukraine which has soldiers willing to fight but without weapons we in Europe have a ton of them, and unlike Ukrainians who have families and friends in Russia, a lot of us deeply hate Russia, we hate them from the bottom of our hearts, there will be no hesitation when answering this attack! Have you seen the polish response? It's the same for a lot of us.
Plus, how do you plan on invading an alliance that only in Europe has 400 million poeple, with what? They don't have enough resources to compete mobilize 200 000 men and they will fight on a 2000km front? Get real!
Putin has managed to piss everyone, even the Nordic countries who were normally neutral on everything, he has managed to bring the UK closer to Europe then it was before Brexit, everyone was talking about not underestimating Russia, the thing is nobody should underestimate Europe. Stop talking about Napoleon and Hitler, think about what we did to the world when were united and not fighting against each other!
If he goes with the nuclear option, thats going to reall ychange the world as we all know it. Nuclear is radioactive, which means it is not just a bomb that blows up some place, it will also make it unhabitable for a long time and will go miles and miles, hundreds of miles away as well so anything near it will be cancerous to people to live. Do not even consider the fact that we are talking about food, fish, trees, animals all getting radioactive and kill people when consumed. So basically this would increase the avarage of cancer patients all over europe. And this is only russia that nukes a place, do not even get me started on other nations responding, we may have a world where we can't live, human life could end if all nukes are sent. Even irrelevant continents would be unhabitable and every single human would be dead.
Nuclear bombs don't work this way.
This is Hiroshima, 1945,1946,1948, 1953
By 1950 it had 285,712 poeple living there and now more than 1 million.