Thread by @generalsvr_en

#Russian President #Putin did not abandon the options for using #nuclear weapons in the war with #Ukraine. He gave direct orders to prepare such.
1/11

We've repeatedly talked about the fact that #Putin usually gives orders to prepare several options for the implementation of a number of decisions. After all the options are prepared, he chooses the one he likes best right before the implementation of a plan.
2/11

This way, one of the scenarios for the development of the conflict is being actively prepared when #Putin can realize the possibility of using tactical #nuclear weapons.
3/11

The recent shelling by #RussianArmy of the #Zaporizhzhia #NuclearPower plant occupied by them in #Energodar is part of the implementation of this scenario. By order of the command of the Russian Army, the Zaporizhzhia NPP was mined, including one of the plant's power units.
4/11

According to this plan, part of the facilities at the station should be blown up to damage the power unit so that #Putin could accuse the leadership of #Ukraine of #nuclear #terrorism, blaming Ukraine for the explosions.
5/11

#Putin would equate this "#nuclear #terrorism" with the use of nuclear weapons by #Ukraine, giving the order to use tactical nuclear weapons as a "response".
6/11

If, in order to start the war with #Ukraine, #Putin decided to abandon the formal casus belli, although the #Russian leadership was preparing options for provocations, then in the case of a decision to use tactical nuclear weapons, the casus belli should be unambiguous.
7/11

#Putin has an idée fixe, which is that it is necessary to repeat all the mistakes made by the #UnitedStates in order for #Russia to be considered a great country and him a great ruler.
8/11

#Putin is sure that it is precisely the demonstration of the use of nuclear weapons with impunity in the armed conflict that will force the West to recognize his (Putin's) strength and force the whole world to reckon with him and go to his terms.
9/11

This is, of course, idiocy and mortally dangerous delusions, primarily for #Russia, but this is a reality for a seriously ill or "entirely too healthy" president of Russia.
10/11

Fighting #Putin's illusions and trying to convince him of something is useless. The only thing he definitely understands is the "language of power", and the sooner the West understands this, the more likely it will be that Putin will not dare to use nuclear weapons.
11/11