I hope you are right and cooler heads will prevail. Hopefully our government is much more on top of what is really going on and what the alternatives are. Giving into nuclear blackmail is not the solution. That will just embolden other autocratic regimes, such as those in North Korea and Iran, who will use the same playbook to promote their oppressive and destabilizing international policies. I also fear that it will trigger a new arms race as smaller countries seek to create leverage by developing their own nuclear weapons.