Some red lines are invisible to all parties until they are crossed when it's too late.The partial destruction of Kerch Strait Bridge was a red line that wasn't spelled out by Russia. But it led to the wholesale destruction of Ukrainian infrastructure by thousands of Russian missiles and drones that's still going on causing enormous suffering of millions of Ukrainians.Has anyone among the Ukrainian leadership anticipated the Russian response or done a cost-benefit analysis? Was it a reckless provocation?What is the lesson to be learned here?As for what may trigger Russian use of tactical nuclear weapons, the Western alliance should consider itself being in a china shop where it buys what it breaks and there's no telling what it might break.Problem with the introduction of nuclear weapons in the battlefield is that we would suddenly be living in a different world where any assumption we might have had about post-nuclear-war world would go out the window. Who can presume to know now what West's response would be, let Russian positions? The only thing that's guaranteed to happen is a worldwide chaos.Putin's objective is not just to win the war against Ukraine. In fact he is not in a hurry to win the war; he will drag this conflict as long as possible until the mainstream political leadership in the Western world is largely thrown out by the tired populace. In 2001, could anyone have predicted 20 years of  American war in Afghanistan and trillions of dollars wasted there?

Some red lines are invisible to all parties until they are crossed when it's too late.The partial destruction of Kerch Strait Bridge was a red line that wasn't spelled out by Russia. But it led to the wholesale destruction of Ukrainian infrastructure by thousands of Russian missiles and drones that's still going on causing enormous suffering of millions of Ukrainians.Has anyone among the Ukrainian leadership anticipated the Russian response or done a cost-benefit analysis? Was it a reckless provocation?What is the lesson to be learned here?As for what may trigger Russian use of tactical nuclear weapons, the Western alliance should consider itself being in a china shop where it buys what it breaks and there's no telling what it might break.Problem with the introduction of nuclear weapons in the battlefield is that we would suddenly be living in a different world where any assumption we might have had about post-nuclear-war world would go out the window. Who can presume to know now what West's response would be, let Russian positions? The only thing that's guaranteed to happen is a worldwide chaos.Putin's objective is not just to win the war against Ukraine. In fact he is not in a hurry to win the war; he will drag this conflict as long as possible until the mainstream political leadership in the Western world is largely thrown out by the tired populace. In 2001, could anyone have predicted 20 years of  American war in Afghanistan and trillions of dollars wasted there?

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