Russia-West War, all points leading to world conflict. With the nuclear nightmare
The third World war has it already begun? Some British security experts believe this, while others argue that it is only a matter of time before the invasion of Russia ignites the spark that ignites a global conflict.
At this time – he writes Deborah Haynes, Security and Defence Editor di Sky News Uk -, with the violence raging in Ukraine and the rising tension between fly and Western allies, the risk of events erupting in World War III has never been greater.
And, given the progress on the armaments front – including nuclear warheads – since 1945, the potential consequences for the entire planet could not be more serious.
The war in Ukraine it has become a battleground of much wider competition between Western liberal democracies and the authoritarian regimes of the world.
The decision of Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine centers on the desire to reverse the trend of NATO’s eastward expansion that began with the end of the Cold War and to restore the balance of security and influence in the region more favorably than Moscow. The outcome of his actions could shape the fate of the whole of Europe. And the stakes couldn’t be higher.
The shock waves of the attack in Ukraine they also had a profound effect on the international system, with almost interrupted economic, financial, commercial, cultural, travel, news and sports ties between Russia and the West.
The president last Saturday Putin he described the West’s decision to impose unprecedented sanctions against its regime as “akin to a declaration of war”.
World War III has already begun, but not on the battlefield. He’s right. The two sides are locked in an economic and political war.
But the UK, the United States and other allies are responding as hard as possible, barring a military confrontation, to the Russian leader’s aggression in Ukraine.
The key question is whether the two sides have restraint and / or a desire to keep this conflict below the threshold of full-blown military conflict.
It is a delicately balanced equation and emphasizes the fragility and the grayness of the boundary between what is conventionally seen as peace and war.
How could war break out between Russia and the West.
There are many potential hotspots pushing the world into full-scale armed confrontation.
For example, the allies of the NATO they made it clear that they will not send troops to Ukraine to help the Ukrainian armed forces defend themselves. Such a move would effectively be a declaration of war on Russia since the two sides would begin killing each other in direct combat.
The same argument was used by theWest to reject the increasingly anguished demands of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his government to impose a no-fly zone on the skies of Ukraine.