Rocket artillery is much cheaper than nukes, and Russia has been using plenty of it punishing effect.
Notice that "offensive" went nowhere. Guess what happens when the Ukrainian advanced marched into the Russian's fall back and set up of rocket artillery?
Russia doesn't need to nor wants to get up close to slug fest them. They will just bury them under a steady rain of artillery. Shells, more shells, even more shells, and rockets to the rockets power is the Russian land war doctrine. They shell the piss out of stuff and advance, or they fall back and shell the piss out of anything following them.
And artillery is cheap, a Few $hundred per shell, and about the same per rocket because Russia's government arms companies manufactures muntions at cost, unlike the West that has to buy from the "golf club" Military Industrial Complex and its insane markup.
So the US "donates" a $1 million missile. The Russians lob a $250 artillery shell. Same poundage of TnT and same level of boom. That is 4000 howitzer shells for the cost of one Javelin.
Its how they won WW2, its how they won Syria, and its how they are winning Ukraine's war.
Russia:
OK then... on those terms, I guess we can't be neighbors. Nukes incoming in 5...4...3...2...1... BOOM
Rocket artillery is much cheaper than nukes, and Russia has been using plenty of it punishing effect.
Notice that "offensive" went nowhere. Guess what happens when the Ukrainian advanced marched into the Russian's fall back and set up of rocket artillery?
Russia doesn't need to nor wants to get up close to slug fest them. They will just bury them under a steady rain of artillery. Shells, more shells, even more shells, and rockets to the rockets power is the Russian land war doctrine. They shell the piss out of stuff and advance, or they fall back and shell the piss out of anything following them.
And artillery is cheap, a Few $hundred per shell, and about the same per rocket because Russia's government arms companies manufactures muntions at cost, unlike the West that has to buy from the "golf club" Military Industrial Complex and its insane markup.
So the US "donates" a $1 million missile. The Russians lob a $250 artillery shell. Same poundage of TnT and same level of boom. That is 4000 howitzer shells for the cost of one Javelin.
Its how they won WW2, its how they won Syria, and its how they are winning Ukraine's war.