You think the left won’t happily risk WW3 in order to win an election. I certainly think they will.
this is the elephant in the living room.
they seized power, they know they are about to lose a lot of it, and they aren’t going to permit it.
if it requires a full-blown war with russia to accomplish that, so be it.
history is full of stuff like this. it is the most obvious play in the book for them, unfortunately.