Holy shit!!
Seems like everybody is obsessed with nuclear conflagration these days.
Let's lighten up and tone down the rethoric a bit, ppl.
The invasion and occupation of the Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia won't lead to any conventional (let alone nuclear) conflict between Nato and Russia (except by proxy).
This is what american ambassador George Kennan, "the architect of America’s successful containment of the Soviet Union" and "America’s greatest expert on Russia" told Thomas Friedmann about Nato expasion:
“I think it is the beginning of a new cold war. I think the Russians will gradually react quite adversely and it will affect their policies. I think it is a tragic mistake. There was no reason for this whatsoever. No one was threatening anybody else. This expansion would make the founding fathers of this country turn over in their graves.
“We have signed up to protect a whole series of countries, even though we have neither the resources
nor the intention to do so in any serious way. [NATO expansion] was simply a lighthearted action by a Senate that has no real interest in foreign affairs. What bothers me is how superficial and ill informed the whole Senate debate was."
Opinion | This Is Putin’s War. But America and NATO Aren’t Innocent Bystanders.
What Ambassador Kennan was saying was that the inclusion of Eastern Europe countries was pure, unadulterated western braggadocio, bluster.
I wouldn't go as far as Kennan and say that no invasion of Eastern Europe would provoke a war between Nato and Russia.
I believe that at some point the invasion of a former soviet sattelite would force Nato to declare war on Russia.
Which former satellite would that be?
Hungary, Bulgaria, Poland?
I don't know but I'm quite confident there will never be an american or european administration crazy enough to go to war with Russia to protect the 3 baltic micro states regardless of their status as Nato members.
Their admission was just for show.
