Comment by troupo

> Would it be worth it for the west to become a wasteland just because there needs to be consequences for Russia.

In your scenario you're saying that Russia is going to show its willingness to lay waste to everything in its genocidal war, including carpet-bombing a country of 40 million people with nuclear bombs. Making it surpass any war in history, including WWII.

Again, in this scenario, somehow, everything just stops, everything is handy-dandy, Russia suffers literally no consequences, everyone just says "oh yeah, the genocidal maniacs are satisfied now, they will never ever carpet bomb anyone else with nuclear bombs".

> why doesn’t Russia unleash the nuclear armageddon on Ukraine? They would stop the Ukraine’s attacks on itself and get a very large no-go zine between itself and NATO - win-win.

Because, once again, you seem to assume that Russia will suffer literally no consequences externally or internally for doing so.

E.g. Russia will be immediately carpet bombed themselves since we already know that their air defenses aren't worth shit.