Fiona Hill

Just like India and Pakistan are both like, well, you know, we've got to kind of keep our strategic nuclear balance here.

Everything is up for question.

Saudis will want a nuclear weapon.

The Turks already want one.

They've talked about one for years.

You know, why should the Iranians be the only one with an Islamic nuclear weapon?

And if we know that Iran has breakout capacity now, the Saudis and all the other states that are in opposition to Iran will also want to have some nuclear capacity.

And the United States before wanted to maintain everything under the nuclear umbrella.

One of the reasons why Sweden and Finland are joining NATO is because of suddenly all of these nuclear threats.

Sweden was actually the last country on the planet to want to have nuclear weapons.

They were actually pushing for a ban on nuclear weapons in the United Nations.

Now that Putin's doing the nuclear saber-rattling,

They're talking about joining and on the verge of joining a nuclear alliance.

See what's happening here.

So we have to make it more and more difficult for Putin to even contemplate that.

That's why people are saying this is reckless, this is irresponsible.

Putin is actually making the world less safe for himself down the line either, but he's thinking short term here.

He's thinking, what can I do?

What do I actually have?

You can also destroy lots of infrastructure as he's doing.