The US has nukes too, except ours are far better maintained and more accurate.

Tut, tut, the Russians have more, and accuracy isn't really an issue. A thousand would make all of the US uninhabitable.

The US also has a credible ABM capability whereas Russia does not.

What a joke. Your ABM is just as much of a joke as your Lupron 'civilization'.

Nobody in the world who actually has nukes, is going to use them

Ah, your usual foolishness. No one who isn't willing to use them would ever ascend to such a position. You lose all leverage when you are not willing to use them. And considering that both Russia and the Evil Empire have spent a lot of money modernizing their nuclear forces, it is pretty obvious that use of nuclear weapons is in the cards. You would not bother keeping 6000 or modernizing them otherwise.

The Soviets didn't use them even when the USSR collapsed

Why would they? The USSR collapsed due to Gorbachev. Was he going to give the command to nuke his own Kremlin office?

Why didn't the USSR use them when the US helped supply stinger missiles to the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan in the 1980s?

This is an undeclared war. The belligerent is not Ukraine, it is the US. You're paying for their budget and for all their weapons. So yeah. It is a shame that Putin is so risk-averse, or you would never have dared.

Swinging your dick by citing nukes is useless unless you are literally suicidal, and nobody who would ever be trusted with the launch codes would be.

You fantasize about the destruction of Russia and the lynching of Putin. At that point, they may as well. In sheer terms of numbers, Russia would come out ahead. Only 162 million people live in Russia, whereas 330 million live in the US and many hundreds of millions more in its slave states (pls no bully Russia). Losing 162 million for 800 million is good business, if I may be flippant.