Putin’s nuclear threat shows a desperate man out of options | Simon Jenkins

Using such weapons has no tactical purpose – it would only lose the Russian president support at home and abroad

Vladimir Putin is ready to use a nuclear weapon in his ongoing attempt to conquer Ukraine. Or so says Vladimir Putin. The reason is that his conquest has been justly defeated so far and he sees no other way forward. The prospect of such an escalation is appalling. A line would be crossed. Nuclear-armed powers round the world would regard it as a licence. It might not be the end of the ...