<i>In the fall of 2022, a U.S. intelligence assessment put the odds at 50-50 that Russia would launch a nuclear strike to halt Ukrainian forces if they breached its defense of Crimea.</i><p>Much more likely today is that NATO would launch a nuclear strike to halt Russian forces if they advanced too close to "NATO's Borders".<p>"NATO's Borders" is a term used a lot by NATO, except that NATO is not a country. And only individual countries can have borders.