on the conventional side uh where is the Russian army that's going to fight a wider war and by the way if they've got an army that can do that why isn't in Ukraine now making up for their pitiful performance over the past two and a half years I I don't think Putin has the capability over a year and a half ago the Biden Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said the Russians were feeding their army into a wood CH chipper and it's just continued since then second on the thre of a potential use of nuclear weapons we've had testimony an open session of Congress from the intelligence community that said whenever Putin has rattled the nuclear saber there's been zero evidence that any nuclear forces have redeployed or moved into a higher state of alert I think Putin's been bluffing and we've fallen for the bluff