The American Conservative.com has made the case that we should take Putin’s claims to use nukes if necessary, underspecified conditions, very seriously. It debunks the idea that Russian technology is somehow flawed, a dangerous myth to find out in reality, as there is no walking back from it. But, I have seen these dismissal claims at many sites, Left and right. We cannot predict how this will go, but, as said below, at present a game of nuclear chicken is being played, as young punks in the 1950s did with their cars, only cars have been replaced by nukes. I do not hold to the idea that the elites are of infinite intelligence and never make mistakes. If that is so, they have us beat; no, to that I say! No, mistakes can be made, and there is randomness in the universe, and black swan events as science shows.