I'll quote John Cleese: "don't talk about the war! don't talk about the war!" In Russia you can be arrested.

I thought it was just a Special Military Operation--whose FSB officers were picking their apartments in central Kyiv before it even started. Feel free to believe those forecasts. Igor Girkin disagrees with Trumpster fantasist MacGregor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbTjSgUh_2Y

But don't take it from me. Listen to Russian soldiers' intercepted phone calls: https://www.youtube.com/@insightsfromukraineandrussia/videos

"widen the war": That will be Putin's choice if it happens. Do you really think he'll give an order to launch a militarily useless tactical nuke knowing the order might not be obeyed?