God of War
Governor
The rationale is that Putin will be removed before he can launch a nuke because they don't understand that when Putin talks of first use nukes against an existential threat he is talking about an existential threat to him personally (and his cadre of Siloviki). It is all in the definition of what is an existential threat to the Russia state. And Brandon and his cadre of tribe doesn't get it.I get that you want that and, if that were a way to do it, I'd be all for it. But that won't happen without US (and allies) boots on the ground (or the always popular nuke option). Russia has consolidated in the southern and eastern regions it controls and is in a pretty good position to defend them. And can continue to lob missiles into the non-occupied zones. A long war is in no one's best interest, but if the rationale is that eventually Russia will lose to Ukrainian forces, well, that's just plan idiotic.