The Big Question amid all the rhetoric and threats of escalation is does this change matters

on the ground. Still Ukraine pushes forwards despite slight Russian gains around Bachmuth. Russia

still struggles to match its status as a nuclear power with real progress and strategy on the ground.

Putin's bid to appear strong, perhaps a reminder of how weak this war of choice has left him.

Nobody's knows what's in that guy's head Putin or what's going to happen next. A little analysis

from Washington Post in a second. I did a little research last night just because I got some

pushback on the text line when I said a couple of times yesterday that Russia has the largest

nuclear arsenal in the world and some people said no they don't. In fact, they do, but just to hit

you with the numbers, Russia has almost 6,000 nuclear warheads, which is the largest in the entire

world. They were always ahead of us in terms of nuclear warheads during the Cold War. To hit you

with a little history and numbers compared to where we are now and I'll keep that number in mind.

Russia has the largest nuclear arsenal at 6,000. In the 80s at the high of the Cold War,

we had 32,000. Wow. Russia currently has 6,000. We had 32,000 at the Ida Cold War. Russia had 45,000

nuclear warheads in the 80s. Scott was often discussed at the time enough to blow up the entire world

many times over. Oh, over and over and over again and how about one more time for good measure?

Hey, there's still a little rubble over there. The peak being in 1986.

And Russia still has enough and we have enough to blow up the world many times over and over and over

again, part of it because these are H bombs. A bombs do a little research on that. Nobody's ever

actually used an H bomb in a war and oh my god, if that ever happens. Yeah, let's hope none of us

ever see that happen. Isn't that stunning number? 45,000 nuclear warheads that Russia had at

the same time that we had 32,000. Wow. And that's how it got brought back down between Reagan

and Gorbachev who recently died was at some point, I think everybody realized that this is getting

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