World War 3

With this week's events in the Middle East on the table, along with yesterday's shooting down of a passenger plane (with American passengers on it) by Russian forces, is WW3 upon us?

Remember how America got involved in WW2: Germans sank a passenger ship with American passengers on it.

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I think the leadership in Western countries needs to be taken to task for thinking that the 90s were going to last forever. When you are as broken as Russia was then there is really nowhere for you to go but up. So many commentators in the Anglosphere were repeating the line that Russia was isolated and geopolitically irrelevant right up to the moment troops began marching into Crimea. People are feigning shock now because their dismissive attitude has now been demonstrated to be idiotic.

Russian expansionism in Eastern Europe is really just an oscillation, from a historical perspective. Nobody is going to risk a shooting war with Russia to defend countries that have always been in the Russian sphere of influence, anyway. If Russia starts stirring shit in EU countries like Poland, then the knives will come out, but not before.