This will be followed by Putin having to spend the next 40% of its military on keeping order within Russia. If he will use nukes, he will obviously not be able to do so (NATO nuclear retaliation will destroy at least 50% of remaining Russian military.)
Even if Putin will stay in power, sending military to police innumerable Russian cities, and towns will take him off the list of potential threats for next decade at least.
Use the time won to remilitarise the West.
Initiating a nuclear launch is not a high-manpower operation.
Obviously emotions and tensions are super high right now, but (a) that's a reason not to post like this, and (b) this has been a problem for a long time.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Edit: here's what I mean - and this doesn't include the large number of emails:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30470909 (Feb 2022)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29621256 (Dec 2021)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26896780 (April 2021)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26892834 (April 2021)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26630216 (March 2021)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26630202 (March 2021)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25843844 (Jan 2021)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20072350 (June 2019)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18802969 (Jan 2019)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15658648 (Nov 2017)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14786407 (July 2017)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13511792 (Jan 2017)