Putin is now on record stating that if US and UK long range missiles are used to strike targets deep inside Russia, then that is a declaration of WAR against Russia by NATO and her allies. It’s hard not to sympathise. BUT, on the other hand, we are two months away from a critical US presidential election. If Trump wins, he will immediately defuse the situation, almost certainly. The War Pig Harris will not of course. But Putin should be patient. In the interests of preserving world peace and preventing WW3 and a possible nuclear holocaust, he should show superhuman patience in the face of extreme provocation from the War Pigs Biden/Harris and Starmergeddon.
Putin must NOT rise to the bait and declare that Russia is at war with the West, because Russia will not be at war with the people of the West, only the illegitimate leaders who have seized control of our governments, the same ‘leaders’ who are at war with us.
My fear is NATO would love it if Putin declared war.
I'm pretty much OK with nuclear Armageddon. Provided he starts with Westminster, Washington, Brussels, Paris, Berlin, Strasbourg, Canberra, Ottawa and Wellington, I'm struggling to see the downside. Out here in the Norfolk Fens, I'm not sure we'd notice.