Nuclear weapons are a bit of a red herring. Even if there was zero risk of them being used, it's not like NATO would all of the sudden join the war. Why would they? If human suffering was all it took for NATO to take part in a war, then we'd be in several wars at any given moment.
Never mind the fact that if civilian deaths are your primary concern, then how does escalating a regional war to what would effectively be a world war help minimize those?
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