[Red6]

If you do not fear a major theater war, when we're already near 1 million casualties with Ukraine and Russia combined, all of NATO and CSTO involved in this conflict, under the table already have a massive influx of volunteers fighting for Ukraine, even uniformed personnel helping Ukraine in secrecy (French Legion and Polish combat engineers have taken casualties), where in the Biden era we were escalating more and more as Ukraine began losing (predictable as Russia partially mobilizes - Russia has the upper hand in every respect), that is not prudent.

Russia is far weaker than us, but they are fully capable of massively expanding beyond their current state (7.1% GDP currently on their war machine, no total population mobilization), and they can take it all the way through nuclear war if they are threatened to the point where this becomes an existential threat to them.

Your reasoning is typical for people that are insulated.

Let's hope there are enough rational minds left to where this does not become personal for us.

[desertsolitaire]

Then let us make it clear to them that this is not and existential threat to them.
Perhaps we do that by scaring the beJesus out of them, hurting them in some horrible horrible way and making sure they know more is waiting. And we are willing.