Absolutely, nuclear strike is a possibility, along with cutting submarine fibercables, triggering terror attacks, assassinating free world leaders, etc etc...

This is why the terror must stop.

spoken like a true npc

see you're almost thinking this through. They can use nukes, they can cut fiber cables, sever pipelines, blow up a LNG terminals, etc. Its not just a real possibility, its the logical outcome of the mutual escalations in Ukraine. The next part is where you realize we have to live in a world where that threat of mutually assured destruction exists and can't just "stop" it. We've had a peace between nuclear armed countries for living memory because pragmatic people realized we can't engage in conventional wars without the risk of nuclear escalation. And here we are, trying to engage Russia in a conventional war and risk a nuclear escalation.

Not everyone would let Ukraine to be annexed like this, and to let all the war crimes we already had a taste of, to happen on a vast scale... There is no other choice.
And cross fingers that Putin get into sanatorium asap.

Ok so I have an idea, that you would like probably.
This year we gift Ukraine to Russia.
Next year we gift Estonia.
Next year we gift them Poland.
Next year we gift them Czech Republic, Hungary, Austria.
Next year we gift them Alaska.
Next year we gift them Germany.
Next year we gift them Canada.
Then we start giving them US states, two or three yearly.
Etc.
In a generation we all live under Russian occupation, because we were afraid to say "no Mr Putin, you cant have that".
Is this what you want, is this your plan?

Uh, you might have me confused with someone else? I'm not sure why you would think I'm a SJW given my post history. Who are the people I root for and why would they "pull the plug on me?"

China and India can definitely be bullied. However, I advocate using a wide variety of tools to get our way. We have diplomatic power, economic power, and military power. We can entice or coerce. War should only be used as a last resort in the general sense.



No, I wouldn't expect you to support any US wars. That doesn't make you "anti-war" though. You're history demonstrates that you're very pro-war when it comes to Russia. How conveniently Christian of you.

We took Ukraine from them in 2014. They are taking it back. They are in the same situation you just described. We took the Balkans. We took the buffer states. We took Ukraine, right up to their doorstep. We backed a coup to overthrow a democratically elected government and have the CIA micromanage the new 'government'. And here we are, being told that NATO expansion and aggression being reversed to Status Quo Ante is a slippery slope to Russian domination.

Why are you so concerned about nuclear escalation when there are so many more immediate threats and actions they can take? Russia is much more creative than you are when they game out these scenarios. I understand that you want America to back down and let Russia have some dignity, but crying wolf over the very last option doesn't seem to be effective...

10 to 15 years back they would have kneel.
I want to see how you are going to bully them now.

What is their creative solution when NATO missiles start sinking the fleet both blockading Ukraine and supplying their front lines?