That's not to say nuclear plays no role, because it does, just not in the *horn-gored way Twitter would have us believe.

Now Russia and their soon to implode currency are trapped fighting against a hyper-efficient war design, where the US defense budget has not only been falling for years, but for a drop in the bucket of that budget, America is dramatically weakening an enemy (Russia), selling energy to allies (EU) for more money than the enemy did, while putting a resource rich country (Ukraine) in debt, and losing no men in the process. It's like an advanced Ai model output an instruction manual for the input: How do we politically embarrass, operationally dominate, and tactically outfight an enemy without ever fighting him?