Redgolum, that is exactly the kind of propaganda that the Germans said about the Czechs in 1938 “the Czechs are going to start a European war to prevent the disintegration of Czechoslovakia.” oh and the Nazis saying “Czechs are persecuting the German speakers in the Sudentenland”
Hint - those were lies, as is the Russian lie now — World War 3 has been averted because the Ukrainians fought back, unlike the Czechs AND the west decided not to have Munich 1938 repeated in 2022.
Hint.
It wasn’t a lie then. The Allied Powers knew they couldn’t fight then, and bargained for time. And the west was not comfortable going to war to prop up a rather shady regime then as now.
The question is this. Do we, as NATO, think that we have enough resources to start WW3 or not? Is a few million American kids worth Warsaw?
Or is Ukraine worth New York, Chicago, DC, etc?
Someone is doing that math. At least I hope so. Because trusting Poland to not play a game of “Let’s you and him fight!” is madness.
I have heard that the US is sending a lot of troops to Europe (and heard that is why we bailed on Afghanistan like we did. Remember that?) What I fear is we consumed a lot of our fancy weapons in the first phase of the war in Ukraine, and are going to be pushed into old tactics if things go hot.