What an extraordinarily reckless article.
It's implicit in any threat that it might be a bluff.
I don't see why it would be reckless to consider the possibility of the poor state of the russian nuclear arsenal. The article even points that the tactical or battlefield nuclear weapons are probably just fine.
It doesn't mean that the west is suddenly going to suddenly going to act as if russia didn't have nuclear weapons.
Way to twist things around. No, it's reckless because you're gambling about the end of the world.
Seems to me you are reading about a pretty factual article about the cost of maintenance of nukes but interpreting it as « let’s declare war to Russia, their arsenal probably doesn’t work ».
God, what a reckless sentence.
It kind of remember me how the possibility of covid lab leak got discredited early on in the Lancet without any proof and then backfired spectacularly, creating doubts about the scientific community in the population.
I don’t think thought censorship ever helps, we have to push for nuanced views.