[ansel12]

Russia isn’t threatening its own territory, it is threatening to introduce to the world the normalizing of nuclear weapons in regular warfare, using nukes to subdue a nation that won’t submit to Russian invasion.

[Magnum44]

So Russia would nuke Ukraine so that the fall out comes right back into Russia...

[SgtHooper]

In that case they’d drop the nukes on bordering countries, pretty much circumscribing Russia with a radioactive DMZ. Not too smart there pootie.