Putin lowers Russia's threshold for using nuclear arms - West Hawaii Today

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : "The question now is whether Putin sees a strategic advantage to intensifying his conflict with the United States -- even by nonnuclear means -- given Trump's imminent return to the White House.Tatiana Stanovaya, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, described the situation on the social platform X as an "extraordinarily dangerous juncture" because Putin might see the temptation to escalate the war before Trump takes office in order to force a peace deal on his terms.
27% : A Moscow-based analyst whose organization is close to the Russian government said that while Ukraine's ATACMS strikes were unlikely to change the course of the war, an aggressive response against the United States "will create problems for Trump.

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