The lack of an "off ramp" for Putin is absolutely my biggest fear as well. Russia can't survive long-term with the sanctions, so he has to put a stop to them.

The lack of an "off ramp" for Putin is absolutely my biggest fear as well. Russia can't survive long-term with the sanctions, so he has to put a stop to them. The only encouraging thing I could say is that if he follows your plan of one strike, I can't imagine it would be to the US. Even if we didn't go MAD in response, we would immediately be at war with Russia until one of us is destroyed.