Nuclear weapons do not only affect the targeted country.
Harmful radioactive "fallout" is widely dispersed.
Russia is not bent on world conquest.
Rhetoric to the contrary is a lie.
A lie that has been told for 70+ years and never materialized.
If no enemy exists, you need no freedom stripping, privacy invading, oppressively controlling "protection" from your government.
Russia's dispute is with Ukraine and Ukraine alone.