Senseye wrote: ↑Fri Feb 10, 2023 7:31 pm
The last thing Russia wants is for this to turn from a proxy war with NATO to a real war with NATO (it won't last long in that case). NATO seems to feel the same way. Either due to cowardice about a nuclear threat or, as Dot suggests, a long drawn out conflict is good for the military industrial complex bottom line.
Of course nobody wants a "real war" with the mass destruction that would entail. But nobody wanted either of the last two world wars either. The problem is that the more the tension is ramped up, the more possibility there is for events to spiral out of control.
It's whistling past the graveyard to assume that endless war can be waged with no chance of that full-blown escalation.
And the other issue is that China is watching and waiting for their opportunity to make the most of this as the West's resources are drained.
Losses in Ukraine are 'out of proportion' to what NATO has been planning for, the alliance's top general says
Now it seems that every day I wake up and read of a new aggressive move by China. All of the ships and planes being sent at Taiwan, and now they have sent ships into the territory of Japan, just today this:
https://apnews.com/article/politics-phi ... a428029259
And of course the balloons.
A lot of high up relevant people have been saying that war with China will happen by 2025. Like this guy
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-four-s ... 023-01-28/
All this shit stresses me the fuck out.