Surrendering to nuclear blackmail to a country that threatens to use it if their invasions are hindered, means the Western nations are forever under the control of Red China and Russia, and in time, to all the other countries that build up a nuke arsenal.
It’s worse than that. This sort of blackmail, successful, leads to a major nuclear war in the future (and in a likely very nasty lead-up, too), no matter how you slice it. Might as well man up and face the threat now.
Who are the fools who made one bad decision after another to get us to this place? The insufferably stupid elites, the BiteMe regime, the deep state, the military industrial complex and the neocons who would declare war on a flock of new born lambs.
So let me get this straight we are going to blow the world up because we’re diplomatically bumbling buffoons and step in it time and again so no to prove we’re not incompetent idiots and for real we fight WWIII to prove we will use nukes.