It could have been avoided.
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/former-us-ambassador-to-the-soviet-union-ukraines-nato-collusion-caused-the-russia-conflict/
The west wants WW3 to blame it for the coming economic problems. They need a scapegoat for their economic mismanagement and an excuse to create more inflation.
@brrr saidThe probable results of this war are economic damage on a global scale (so, people hedging on that sort of thing and people invested in the weapons trade are going to make a lot… A LOT… of money) and severely damaged international relations (which will make influencing rogue nations even harder than it already is).
Is anyone out there scared about the results of this war, or where it will lead? Possible radiation? or escalation of the war to who knows what? Or worse?
So, I’m not really afraid of what’s going to happen, but a lot of people are going to be worse off.
An interesting sub-point to this will be the next time another nation invades a country.
Take the US, they have quite the history of it in the last century.
What’s now been sold as “normal Western values” could see loads of countries boycotting the US and selling arms to the invaded country.
And what does NATO do then?
This could, potentially, be the beginning of balls and chains on the whole Western state of military interventionalism.