Not striking Russian airfields hasn't exactly worked very well to tone down Russian aggression, so it makes sense to try to directly hurt their ability to attac

Not striking Russian airfields hasn't exactly worked very well to tone down Russian aggression, so it makes sense to try to directly hurt their ability to attack. It's an entirely legitimate target: military equipment, from a country waging war against Ukraine. By comparison, Russia keeps bombing civilian targets in a futile attempt to terrorize Ukrainians into surrendering. Or maybe just out of sheer spite. Either way, it seems Putin is not at all interested in peace, which means the only way to stop this war is to stop Russia's ability to wage this war. The claim that Putin might resort to nuclear strikes in response to Ukraine defending itself, is pure propaganda aimed at cowing defenders into compliance. If he actually wanted to launch nukes, he'd have done so already.