A scenario that I am concerned about is that he will annex large portions of Ukraine

announce that Russian nuclear doctrine, you know, supporting the use of nuclear weapons and

defensive attacks on Russian territory applies to the annexed terrain and then either therefore say explicitly or imply that continued counter-offensives will trigger nuclear attack hoping to stop continued

counter-offensives.

That's the likeliest scenario that I see right now for what would be a threat followed possibly by actual use of a nuclear weapon

in Ukraine.

And it worries me a lot. What does Putin want now?

What are his objectives at this point in his war against Ukraine?

And what are Ukraine's objectives?

And what are the objectives of the United States and Europe?

After all, the goals of different leaders in war of the United States and Europe.

After all, the goals of different leaders in wartime often evolved based on battlefield

developments.

In 1939, Britain went to war to defend Polish independence from Nazi aggression.

But the objective changed, among other things it became a war to topple Hitler and bring down

the Nazi regime.

Or consider how much America's war objectives in that war, had changed from 1941,

retaliating for Pearl Harbor and trying to contain Japan's expansionism in Asia, but by 1945 America's objectives in World War II had changed

a lot.

Our objectives shifting right now before our eyes for Putin, Zolensky, and the US and NATO, and has the likelihood

that Putin would use a limited nuclear strike changed as these objectives have

evolved. To help us think through all of this is military

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