I think this is trivial compared to the fact that the EU is supplying Ukraine with tens of billions of dollars in weapons and supplies.

I agree those are bigger issues, but it all adds up, doesn't it? Also, not sure why you're focusing on the EU, when the US is the primary provider of military aid, by a massive margin.

Nobody is "backed into a corner"

Of course they're getting backed into a corner, most of the world is openly against Russia.

and everyone should feel free to "antagonize" Russia without exhibiting fear of a nuclear holocaust.

That's really reductive. Also, it depends on the level of antagonism. Globalist arrest warrants for the leader of a country does seem like a pretty big one.

If I'm not going to be afraid of antagonizing trannies, I'm sure as fuck not going to be afraid of antagonizing Russia.

And you shouldn't be. Antagonize away, my man. But you're also not issuing arrest warrants for Putin, or providing billions in military aid to Ukraine. So there's a slight difference of scale going on.

It's actually your worrying that is the problem. The more you exhibit fear of nuclear weapons, the more incentive you give to Russia and China to make nuclear threats a staple of their foreign policy.

I didn't say I'm worried or afraid, I said it is worrying in the general sense. Also, if randos like me on the internet can shape Russian and Chinese foreign policy, that's something special. Again, there's an issue of scale here.

The more a country relies upon and places its hopes in nuke threats to obtain its foreign policy goals, and the more they persist in this because their intelligence agencies are reading comments like yours and telling them that people fear their nukes, the more likely it is to actually use nukes when those goals consistently fail.

So ironically, it is your expressed fear of nukes that are going to get us nuked, if anything.

That's absurd. Talking candidly about nuclear powers on the internet isn't going to lead to nuking.

And people have been worried about the nuclear issue for decades, it's a known - if relatively slim - danger. Acting like it's not, or that nuclear weapons will never be used (again), just doesn't wash. Of course a proxy war between two heavily armed nuclear powers is going to further increase that small risk. Again, not saying it will happen, and I don't think it will, but the chances are going up. Of course they are. And that's something to discuss.