Is there any possibility that this will escalate to WW3 or it will just be another proxy war in another expendable...

Is there any possibility that this will escalate to WW3 or it will just be another proxy war in another expendable shithole country?

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How the fuck would this escalate into world war three? Ukraine is not a NATO member, the west has no intention of getting involved militarily

Well, imagine if Russia invades and then there is some kind of trespassing inside the territory of Poland or Romania, both NATO members

That's about as likely as me losing my virginity. Russia has no interest in starting world war three because that would be suicide

Also, why is Russia so concerned with Ukraine joining NATO, while the baltic countries are already members and they are just a bunch of km away from St. Petersburg?

NATO is just one reason out of many, Russia has been interested in regaining it's territories since putin was "elected"

According to Russian chairborne trolls here, because the nukes (like the ones that have already been in the Baltics for all these years that they have been members, oh wait) will be closer to... something in their territory. By a few kilometres.

This is some early 1900 despot mindset

Too much Botox tends to scramble a man's brain.

But it is literally the mindset that the russian federation holds. They see these small breakaway states in contested regions and use them as a means of regaining territory semi-legally.