How do we use our understanding of that, and the way that they operate, to avoid a full scale war?
There IS a full scale war going on.
31,000 confirmed dead Ukranian soldiers, and up to 120,000 dead Russian soldiers. We don't even have a good idea how many civilian deaths, but the total death toll could be as high as 500,000.
And no, before you start - Mutually Assured Destruction isn't "a full scale war". Its Annihilation of both sides, and has no precedent in the history of war.
Full scale in the sense that Putin gets NATO involved.
Putin can't even hold his own territory. I don't think even he would open another front by attacking a NATO member even if the west started greenlighting their weapons be used in the incursion.
If Nato got involved directly Moscow would be leveled in a month.
Aaaannnd . . . ?
We already crossed many times their "red lines". This is just the good old "China's Final Warning".
They are already barely managing to slowly advance against a single foe, which is still transitioning between the old soviet warfare ways toward NATO's one, with far less soldiers, I doubt they would ever hold against the full alliance firepower.
They already use that rhetoric for a long time.
I'm sure you're right.
How do we use our understanding of that, and the way that they operate, to avoid a full scale war?
There IS a full scale war going on. 31,000 confirmed dead Ukranian soldiers, and up to 120,000 dead Russian soldiers. We don't even have a good idea how many civilian deaths, but the total death toll could be as high as 500,000.
And no, before you start - Mutually Assured Destruction isn't "a full scale war". Its Annihilation of both sides, and has no precedent in the history of war.
Full scale in the sense that Putin gets NATO involved.
Putin can't even hold his own territory. I don't think even he would open another front by attacking a NATO member even if the west started greenlighting their weapons be used in the incursion.
If Nato got involved directly Moscow would be leveled in a month.
Aaaannnd . . . ?
We already crossed many times their "red lines". This is just the good old "China's Final Warning".
They are already barely managing to slowly advance against a single foe, which is still transitioning between the old soviet warfare ways toward NATO's one, with far less soldiers, I doubt they would ever hold against the full alliance firepower.