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minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoI’m not saying it’s not going to happen but Russia would have to attack NATO first. No one wants to attack a nuclear power if they don’t have to.
minus-squareours@lemmy.filmlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down3·1 year agoNATO directly fighting Russian troops in Ukraine would be a big deal and quite unlikely already if it somehow got to that. Russians need to be kicked out of Ukraine but they need to kick out Putin out of Russia themselves.
minus-squareours@lemmy.filmlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoFirst, why would NATO risk escalation and bother losing troops when they can get Ukraine to do all the actual fighting?
I’m not saying it’s not going to happen but Russia would have to attack NATO first.
No one wants to attack a nuclear power if they don’t have to.
NATO directly fighting Russian troops in Ukraine would be a big deal and quite unlikely already if it somehow got to that.
Russians need to be kicked out of Ukraine but they need to kick out Putin out of Russia themselves.
Why
First, why would NATO risk escalation and bother losing troops when they can get Ukraine to do all the actual fighting?