NATO could not have stopped a Warsaw Pact invasion back in the 60s.
The nukes are the only thing NATO has to really forestall a Soviet invasion of the Baltics.
Oops... Soviet = Russian
Even Jaruzelski confessed that had NATO invaded, Polish troops would have turned on the Soviets.
And right now the pussnchief wouldn’t use a nuke even if the Russians dropped 300 ICBMs all over the North American continent. We have a dangerous year ahead of us.
After we kicked Saddam out of Kuwait, Russian Generals said they were glad they never had to face our Air Power and Armor in Europe.