“It seems European leaders want to get into this fight.”
They want it so bad it’s amazing. And it’s hard to see why. They are broke, have very little industrial capacity left, have a decades old pacifist population and joke militaries.
They all have massive numbers of violent immigrants and cannot are destroying their energy and farming sectors.
It’s hard to see why they think attacking Russia right now would be helpful.
“It’s hard to see why they think attacking Russia right now would be helpful.”
One of the reasons driving all sides into WW1 was the idea that their opponents would get stronger in the future, while they were getting weaker.
So it was better to go to war now.
It was true of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, it was true of the Germsn General Staff. It was true of the French diplomatic Corps.