You are quite correct. You forgot to mention that they’ll only use them if they lose this conflict with the Ukraine. The only way that I see them losing is if NATO and the US get directly involved.
Russia threatens nuclear war if it loses in Ukraine
19JAN2023
https://nypost.com/2023/01/19/russia-threatens-nuclear-war-if-it-loses-in-ukraine/
“You forgot to mention that they’ll only use them if they lose this conflict with the Ukraine.”
And you have that confirmation from whom?
“The only way that I see them losing is if NATO and the US get directly involved.”
You place too much faith in Russia’s ability to fight a conventional war, and not enough in Ukraine’s ability to do so, especially when the latter is fighting an existential war to defend its own homeland.