Sobieski: Is it possible that we’ve underestimated the Bear?

Russia is giving up on trying to maintain conventional parity with the US and banking everything on maintaining a nuclear arsenal to threaten people with. Very stupid. First use of even a single tactical nuke against the US or our interests will result in a rapidly escalating atomic tit-for-tat which could well result in a full nuclear exchange, while with conventional forces the US can do everything from regime change in Iraq to throwing out a full-scale invasion of Kuwait. Its the difference between a garage full of different power tools, and another one with nothing but dynamite.