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Sooo they haven't "so chosen" for years now, why would they suddenly "now so choose"?
I mean, Russia "hadn't chosen" to invade Ukraine for decades, and then they did. Things can, and in fact do change.
And it's not like the past year has been super calm in the region. Israel (who they would almost certainly be using the nukes on) has been popping off. So that seems like a pretty good reason to "now so choose" that wasn't the case a decade ago (to the same degree).
Russia has been consistently invading Ukraine since 2014. In 2022 they escalated. Before that they attacked Georgia, and got a madman into power through orchestrating terrorist attacks.
Iran has been consistently "a year away from nukes" since 92' according to Israel. Nothing changed, just the fact that as you said Israel has been "popping off" and murdering and destabilizing every country around them.
No, this changed: https://isis-online.org/isis-reports/detail/analysis-of-iaea-iran-verification-and-monitoring-report-may-2025/