It doesn't matter what we think

It matters what they believe. There are some Russian scholars discussing the use of nuclear weapons to call off NATO own premise of the article 5 into question. They argue that they can challenge NATO response. They think we would panic and let them take whatever else they want, including Poland. Reading the comments they are not far off. We either support Ukrainian fight for freedom or we will 100 percent be fighting for our own in the future: literally.