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.

Fuck them all. We should simultaneously invade Russia, Belarus, China, North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Cuba and Venezuela and end this shit once and for all. They cannot stop us. We are stronger

no but it could push China, Russia, and Friends closer together and quite possibly form a weird Warsaw-NATO hybrid alliance of some type.

global democratization is inevitable.
enjoy the ride.

CCP only ever wants to weaken and devour anything that is not them. Even Putin seems to understand that.

Russia and china are united against the west but they are not friends. Even in that unlikely case of a alliance, that would still not offset the strategic power of NATO.

Neither USA and URSS were friends in WW2, but they collaborated and won.

WW3 is unlikely, unless NATO gets directly militarily involved and China seizes the opportunitiy and takes Taiwan.
We can only hope Biden will try to prove hes tough and Xi goes for it.

the US and USSR were not friends but realize that russia and china are one step away from being enemies. The tensions between those nations has lasted decades even leading to open combat at times. China continues to take over russia's military export industry with stolen licenses and continually spits in russia's face.

No.

military alliances arent made through "friendship" or their past. theyre decided through current mutual interests

Don't forget CCP taking their land, lol. They have flooded their "historical clay" with so many Chinese that you can unironically proclaim People's Republics there any day now. I doubt there are more than like 0.001% of people in some regions of technically still Russian Federation speaking anything but Cantonese or whatever it is they speak.

Generally not a great strategic move you know that they’re just gonna bite you in the ass at a later date. It would be like us giving the taliban nuclear weapons to fight the Soviet Union

because the last intervention in afghanistan went so well right?

Dumb idiot oligarchs. Should've looked at what Germany did after they got their shit pushed in. Russia should have started another union, and have countries opt in. A union like the EU, but with Russian interests.

its not my suggestion or opinion
its the post ww2 world order

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thats why the us always has a knife ready to stab its allies in the back

>Russia should have started another union, and have countries opt in.
They are culturally or perhaps even genetically incapable of not being violent, abusive assholes.

Yeah, I know. I feel like people are forgetting what soft power is, and why the US has so much influence in the world. Look at what China is doing too, they're investing in Africa trying to expand their own soft power.

True. Too bad they're going to lose because Africa is the black hole when it comes to anything economical. Unless they literally plan to genocide them out of existence. Either way, the civilized world wins.

im kinda thinking china is watching all this shit and thinking.. maybe that island that i want could be taken now... it will only cost a few sanctions after all.

They are not this dumb. They were likely hoping for a proper military commitment in Ukraine so that USA/NATO would be split between two fronts.