It’s gonna take a lot of diplomacy before the shooting starts. And it will start.
The center, the bedrock of Western Civilization for the last 1200 years has been the Holy Roman Empire of the German People.
Germany, most of Poland, the Baltics, Czech, Slovakia, Hungary, Switzerland and the Northern parts of Italy.
The White Europeans that live there may cut it close, but they will not put up with this sh!t for too long.
Remember, they invented killing on an industrial scale.
And, they conquered and colonized most of the planet...and brought them civilization.
But, unfortunately, it seems civilization doesn't stick too well.
Was that the lament of the Romans too?