[Skybird]

Maybe I should make clear that in the above I did not want to philosophize about the specifics of any Western air war against Russia, but that I wanted toi point out that Russia is engaged in a strategy not really unaggressive forward deployment since years, and not just in the Ukraine, but along its complete Western borders. That incldues nuclear wepaons (tactical nukes) that have much shorter flight times to target than ICBMs.