War has fuck-all to do with rights. If you're going to attack a NATO country we will beat your ass back into the stone age without mercy, your nukes won't save you if you dare cross that line.
No but they'll sure kill a lot of us, whichever ones still fire and hit their marks at least. Who's to say if they've maintained their stock over the decades.
And the citizens will be told the whole time about how it's some plot to destroy them as people, to stoke the flames.
An actual war with Russia wouldn't end well for anyone short of having an internal coup with an actual plan for government afterwards instead of this slow handoff of power from one authoritarian dictator to the next.