Ukrainian journalist: A nuclear power has little to fear in a war

Translating from the Dialog, July 16:

"Portnikov said that "Russia's true military defeat is excluded", voicing the worst-case scenario: "Nobody talks about this at all"

Vitaly Portnikov spoke briefly and unequivocally about the likelihood of Russia being militarily defeated in the war with Ukraine: "Nazi Germany would also hardly have suffered a military defeat if it had been a nuclear power at the time of 1943-1944. As you understand, in this case, most likely, the allies, even having liberated all the territory that the Reich would have occupied at that time, having a military advantage over the Reich, would have stopped at the border of Germany and would have tried to negotiate something with it."  

"In the nuclear era, all this looks completely different, and the most dangerous moment of the nuclear era will be that we will say that a nuclear state can do anything without fear of any responsibility. The US can absolutely calmly strike Iran, because they are confident in their security, and Russia can strike Ukraine, because it is confident in its security," the political observer revealed the essence of what is happening.

However, Vitaly Portnikov reported what would be a defeat in the war for Russia: "What is a military defeat for Russia in this war? The most catastrophic defeat for Russia could be the withdrawal of its troops from those territories of Ukraine that Russia occupied between 2014 and 2025. This is the maximum that could happen. The minimum defeat is that Russia will not be able to reach the borders of those regions that are recorded for unknown reasons in the Russian Constitution. This is also a defeat, but it has nothing to do with the full functioning of the state within its internationally recognized borders. No one talks about this at all."   

"Ture defeat with the introduction of a foreign army into the capital of Russia as a nuclear state, yes, is excluded, as well as into the capital of any other nuclear power. This is precisely the danger, as I have already told you," the publicist said."