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How The War In Ukraine Could Go Nuclear

FiveThirtyEight Politics

Is There a Greater Probability of Putin Using Nuclear Weapons Today?

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I stand by the assessment that Putin is a rational actor, but I think he started this war based on extraordinarily bad information. It's clear he had a tiny circle of decision makers around him that he didn't have good intelligence or he ignored good intelligence. But again, none of that speaks to me of irrationality. It speaks to me as bad information. And we have seen a bloodbath.

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