Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Probably not. NATO will get serious now... likely admit additional eastern block states and bulk up defenses.
If Putin just wanted UK, he got it, but this will really wake up Western Europe. They're not going to wait until the red army rolls into Paris. Lesson learned in '39.
The Red Army no more has the wherewithal to roll into Paris than the German’s do to move their border 10 kilometers to the East. The manpower, equipment, money and will simply doesn’t exist at the moment or any time soon. China can’t even begin to contemplate a real amphibious assault on Taiwan, and they have a 10M man military.
People defending against old wars will get us into the next one. Russia will expend it’s military strength in Ukraine, but they might cyber the West to death if that is what they want to do. It won’t be with bullets.