I don't understand why it's become fashionable in pro-Ukrainian circles to dismiss Russia's nuclear deterrent. Like, you guys didn't even mention the most obvious difference between the situation in Ukraine and the situation in Israel. That's before we get to the scale problem; the area requiring protection in Ukraine is just massively bigger than in Israel, and there are a lot more missiles and drones involved, which probably means needing to hit some of those assets left of strike, in Russia. Then you have to do it all in an air denied environment.

All that means you're pretty much guaranteed to have the US directly engaging the Russian military. What could possibly go wrong?

I get that the aid situation is embarrassing, and Ukraine deserves better, but that doesn't mean we should just hand-wave away the risks and Leeroy Jenkins this stuff because it feels bad.