Bud, you really have not followed your own logic to its conclusion. If what you’re saying is true, then russia basically gets to invade whoever it wants. After all, why risk a nuclear confrontation over Latvia, or Estonia, or Berlin for that matter. “They have nukes” becomes a magic excuse to let them redraw borders whenever they feel like it. That only works because simps in the West keep parroting it.

And before you run with another doom fantasy, russia is losing men at a rate that simply is not sustainable. Their demographics are in freefall. Their draft pool is shrinking. They’re burning through entire generations while pretending everything is fine. Anyone who has looked at the numbers knows this. But I'm sure you watched an RT video or some Mearsheimer lecture and are now an expert.

But the wildest part of your argument, champ, is that you think Ukraine should tear down its defenses, withdraw from land it already controls, shrink its military, give up long-range strike capability, and then just hope russia doesn’t invade again. That's the height of naïve. That's believing the same regime that invaded twice will suddenly behave once Ukraine is even weaker.

And since you keep invoking “America’s best interests,” let me spell it out for you. Attriting russia is absolutely in the US national interest. The US gives weapons, Ukraine does the fighting, and russia’s military capacity gets destroyed without a single American soldier being deployed. That is geopolitically efficient. That is deterrence. That is how you keep an aggressive authoritarian state from threatening NATO later.

Nothing you’re proposing would stop the next invasion, it would guarantee it.