“Risk-averse actor” – US experts: Putin is not going through with the nuclear threat

Putin “risk-averse actor”
Despite Putin’s announcement that nuclear weapons will be stationed in Belarus, US experts see no growing danger of a nuclear war. Saturday night’s announcement was irrelevant to the “risk of escalation to nuclear war, which remains extremely low,” according to an analysis by the US Institute for War Studies (ISW). Russia has already been able to reach any point on earth with its nuclear weapons. But Putin is a “risk-averse actor who repeatedly threatens to use nuclear weapons without intending to do so.”