[skeeter]

With the new alliances Russia is busy creating - Iran, India, China, possibly SA - they won’t have to attack anyone. They’ll bring Europe to its knees without a shot.

[Starboard]

Good point. The economic aspects are often overlooked, but will weigh heavily as countries look toward the future and the new alliances that are being formed. Shifting sands.

[Cronos]

Iran and China will never "ally" with Russia -- both Iran and China remember the Russia fought wars with them and took Iranian and Chinese territory in the 1700s and 1800s

And they remember

[Forward the Light Brigade]

The war will be won not in Ukraine but on the streets of Berlin, Paris and Rome. If German Gov. Falls and orders the US Army and Nukes out—or signs a peace treaty with Putin—we are done. This can get really bad really fast.