Zelensky now threatening to develop nuclear bomb, drop an A-bomb on Russia, if the US doesn't pay up. Taking a lesson out of the Kim Jong Un playbook, eh? Well, Iran got $6B from Biden. Straight-up nuclear blackmail. If Zelensky dropped one bomb on Russia, Putin would probably turn Kiev and western Ukraine into a glass parking lot. Save the eastern regions, obviously (Luhansk, Donbas, etc).
I recall we invaded a country due to threats of WMD? unfortunately we had some bad intel. Russia would be justified to do the same? Now they'd have the justification to go all the way to Kiev.
Not even sure if Russia could mount a surgical precision strike to pre-emptively take out the nuclear labs, Israeli-style, since nowadays the US-supplied UKR air defense is pretty successful (e.g. 50% or higher) at stopping drones, missiles, and rockets. Until the AD runs out of missiles (e.g. US-provided Patriot system). Nowadays, the you have to launch more drones, missiles, rockets, than the target has AD missiles loaded up in their missile batteries. and use aircraft to shoot down slow-flying drones.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14081853/Zelenskys-doomsday-nuke-option-Ukraine-nuclear-Putin-plutonium-make-HUNDREDS-nuclear-warheads-powerful-destroy-Russian-military-bases.htmlmaybe he should start drafting Ukraine's 18YO to 25YO men to mobilize the necessary manpower to actually fight the war before threatening a "last resort" nuclear option. He's supposedly 300,000 short of the 500,000 needed, per his defense minister.