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Originally Posted by jofillips
couldnt agree more, to me the EU's inaction is due to financial issues.
War or action against Russia would basically mean a massive world recession - Britain doesnt want to act because Russian companies are now listing in London to gain world acceptance and Germany (under Schroeder i believe?) has pipeline and diplomatic links with Russia that limits Merkel to words...
To me the best the EU/NATO could do here is commit itself to utterly cutting off Russian oil/gas within 20 years.
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Just from a military standpoint a expanded war against Russia would be far more devastating then WW2 by a huge factor.
Trade would come to a virtual standstill as Russia's first move would be to cut the sea lanes. Europe's industrial footprint would be devastated.
Chances are it would be the first war in a while where America would take hits on their own mainland as Russia would basically have to Pearl Harbor America's capability to make war in the Atlantic and resupply over the ocean.
Modern weapons in theory have the capability to be more selective, but all that means is you need less to do more devastation then the carpet bombing campaigns of the second World War.
You would have a massive refugee problem, probably some level of mass starvation, you would probably see millions upon millions of casualties and once again that younger generation would be devastated.
A open war against Russia would be Armageddon even without the use of nuclear weapons.