I’m neither. But this will lower the chance that nukes are used. Putin will keep pressing until pushbacked in 3x the measure. Then he will quit. He won’t use nukes because if he does NATO will be forced to obliterate Moscow. Unless it is willing to sustain Russian aggression without fighting in Russia.
If Ukraine cannot take the fight to Russia because Russia threatens nukes then Russia has no limiting factor on conquests. Annex territory with out the threat to the Russian homeland that nurtures the ability to make war. Putin can do that all day and the decade long.
Dresden, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Iraq, Afghanistan, Sherman’s March.
Does the US still know that winning a war means killing civilians and/or obliterating physical infrastructure on the enemies home turf?