It ends with Russia losing. As long as NATO makes it explicitly clear they will not attack Russian territory nor violate Russian sovereignty Russia has no basis to escalate beyond Ukraine. A nuclear war between Russia and NATO would result in the total destruction of Russia (and everything else of course). Russia wouldn't start one unless they felt their existence was threatened.

[–] dedale@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

They do feel their existence is threatened since NATO expended to the east in 1999.

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Russia wouldn’t start one unless they felt their existence was threatened.

I'm really sorry, but a helicopter loaded with green money seems more likely an exit from such a situation.

I hope you do understand that people in Kremlin are degenerate thieves (also mass murderers, of course), they very strongly care for their own lives, but "Russia's existence being threatened" is their last concern. After all, they've contributed so much to that threat that nobody in 1993 would believe it's even possible.

So - no, nukes won't fly because of a threat. They may fly after there's no integral Russian state, then there's a little chance that somebody really delusional in a right way takes control of some nukes. I'm not sure if something like this can happen.