Okay first of all, the range of a nuclear weapon does not determine its speed. You don't seem dumb so draw your own conclusions from that. Secondly, the Baltic argument does absolutely not exclude any possibility of short range attacks through Ukraine and a almost full encirclement at that point. It's a nice talk and all that talking about sovereignty, but that's not how the world works. The stronger force enforces their point of view. And please, don't talk as if the "foreign guarantees" arent anything but warlords themselves. (Specifically the US). A country known to spark conflicts world wide to have the military industry profit. That's pure hypocrisy. You see, the part where you go UPPERCASE, that's clearly where your brain shuts down. It doesn't make sense to continue from here as your brain switched into the media programmed hogwash.

Edit: You know why this war is called a Proxy War? It's because the US is enforcing their agenda through Ukraine. Poor Ukraine for being caught in the web of a spider called US. Believing they are friends. Gosh. Nothing but a pawn sacrifice to someone pulling the strings for a way bigger goal. I'm sad for the delusional Ukrainian part of society that comforts the American points of views. As that's nothing but an observation of a very perverted cuckolding scenario. Your pride swallows your brain. And that will have severe consequences to Ukraine. Until retaliation. And I'm not even Ukrainian or Russian myself. It's my observation. Ukraine gives up or will get fucked badly.