not sure why some people assume there would be an instant nuke from the US?
if russia decides to use a nuke, it'll be on ukraine and not one of the nato states - which opens the gate for the US to annihilate anything russian outside of russia's borders with conventional means = L
if russia decides to use their nuke somewhere else, they'd literally cease to exist - which is why that is probably not going to happen, especially since it looks more and more like putin is losing the people around him = major L
in short, russia is absolutely fukking cucked rn and anybody who just cannot accept the reality that russia's military strength is literally a fairytale fueled by propaganda... well, you are lost