This is worth discussing, because you'd think this would be the case but it is really easy to note that in actual practice nuclear powers generally give each other a wider berth than this.
The reason is that red lines are ambiguous and the cost of being wrong is huge. 1/
I'm no military analyst, but I would have thought that Israel, like everyone else, faces the problem that going nuclear at any level of escalation below 'existential war' has negative EV. If so, shouldn't any military option short of existential war be unaffected by their deterrent?
