goodnesswins: "I.DON’T.THINK.SO."
Vlad the Invader has self-identified as an aggressive empire builder, working through intimidation, corruption and invasions to bring countries from the old Tsarist and Soviet empires under Russian domination.
A Russian victory over Ukraine will bring a 1/3 increase in Russia's population and GDP, making it that much more powerfully intimidating to Russia's weaker neighbors.
Some of those neighbors, and their neighbors, are NATO countries, making the next war vastly more costly, destructive and deadly.
And then there are all the other two-bit tin-horn Hitler wannabe dictators who will be inspired by Vlad the Invader's success to aggress on their own weaker neighbors.
That world will not be friendly to Americans and our ideals.
It will be more like the world of January 1914.