You think I give a shit about downvotes? I'm not a teenager like you seeking approval from anyone. Real life is more important than fake internet points. You're all either children or bots, so excuse me for not giving a flying fuck what you think, especially when your proposal involves killing hundreds of millions of people, you nut jobs!
Putin has had every chance to start it already and continued as usual.
Putin is not going to change his mind because of Abrams tanks.
The West can send in all the aid it wants short of combat personnel and nukes, and Putin has no option for stopping it.
Nothing short of an existential threat to all of Russia will change any of this.
If you don't believe this by this point in the war, I don't know what else to tell you. He's had plenty of chances and done nothing but complain. WW3 is not on the table.
You missed one key point. Putin knows that they don't know which nukes are functioning, and which, due to lack of maintenance, are going to blow up in Russian territory the moment they try to launch. I know Russian roulette is a thing, but they don't normally have 5 bullets and one empty chamber.
Putin doesn't want to nuke himself, which is the most likely outcome of him trying to nuke anyone. Nukes are literally the most expensive weapons to build and maintain. Please look at the current maintenance standards of the Russian military, and tell me again how they have working nuclear weapons that they built decades ago, when nuclear weapons have an expiration date that is more like a year or two without maintenance.