Yes I understand this. But it doesn't mean they can open another flank. America however can, because Europe will happily engage prior. If they're talking about Nukes despite Russian numbers it's another gangbang. Where Nato Europe and it's most nations, even one's you don't know about, will let them rip.

Despite your muling opinion. Russia will not engage America first in that scenario. Unless another opportunity becomes provided, by partners. Leaving a very tactical question of how far they escalate it in the Ukraine. It's mostly because it could draw more they haven't, and because tactically it doesn't win them partners. But at what point haven't they removed coms and targeted command structures. Possibly because it can internally rally more. Not at this point. Leaving a question of goal. Goal to cause a larger war perhaps? Or simply to win, by playing a longer game. The long game often causes a larger war. Winning is often getting ahead of the competition. A larp. Completely Speculative. They're using it as well, selling the renewables at premium rates, banning nitrates, eating bugs, and generally becoming even more annoying. No it's not necessarily a territory, where pacman will keep gobbling up the Ukraine.

You're buying into the rhetoric of the fall of the West. Where this war is buying time, and drawing out, as it has other geopolitical agendas. It could run into the Winter otherwise turning the gas off does mostly bullshit. Uncertainty causes chaos, where there is gain, or it simply gets worse. But decisively it's still toying with the food. It is drawing out.

Obviously from opposing perspective, they can still move on it, often at their leisure, they're not taking that hit. Markets, yawn. It's still Russia's fault. In fact, they can hit Russia easier from it. Topically. Sure there's all the theatre, and political shenanigans. But it doesn't change much in the face of conflict at all. It often simply provokes it.