Are Putin’s ‘Pink Traces’ Actual Threats or Hole Bluffs?

DEEP DIVE — Does Vladimir Putin have precise “pink traces” for the West on the subject of the warfare in Ukraine? And if that’s the case, what’s going to he do if they’re crossed? These are essential questions for Ukraine and its supporters, and a rising refrain of policymakers and analysts consider the West has been getting the solutions fallacious. 

Because the early days of the warfare, Putin has brandished the specter of utilizing Russia’s nuclear weapons ought to the West “intrude” together with his “particular navy operation” in Ukraine. Repeatedly, the West has both delayed cargo of weapons or imposed restrictions on their use due to  fears that doing in any other case would cross a Kremlin pink line, and result in a harmful escalation.