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To be fair, the nuke thing has an historic precedent as the US did place nukes in Turkey, which bordered the Soviet Union. Hell, that was the main reason the Cuban missile crisis got started.

That being said, since Russia knows there are nukes in Turkey already, they also know there likely wouldn't need to be in Eastern Europe, kind of defeating the rationale at the same time.