This is correct; we are already in WWIII’s beginning phases and we should act like it. There is a certain inevitability to these things. We are making it worse, not better, by not helping Ukraine enough. I don’t completely agree with Kyle but we’re on a path globally that leads to a world-devastating conflict, with very few realistic ways to avoid it.
Our goal now should be to make it the least bad and shortest war possible. Which we in the US are not doing at all, and neither is Europe.
Well there’s this:Why Russia is More Likely to Go Nuclear if It’s Winning (it’s from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists if the code doesn’t show up, which addresses the big old elephant in the room…)
A war is a war, but foreign policy aims from the US should also be to control how it’s pulled into it, if it can be helped. It’s interesting this guy thinks WWIII started in 2014 but doesn’t say it. I bet if you asked most Americans they’d be thinking of 2022.
I don’t think most Americans think of proxy wars as real wars either. Not even the ones who remember the Cold War.
This seems at least as likely as any other reason for Russia to use nuclear weapons. On the battlefield, they are nearly without practical purpose. But a nuke on a city is another thing, and far more likely.
Europe really should be the ones stepping up here; after all, this is happening in their own continent. I know they won’t but the US probably won’t be there to save them when Russia charges through Poland and into Germany around 2030.