I must admit that I am fascinated by the sudden uptick in talk about a European war with Russia.
Not fascinated in the “I would love to see what happens” way, but rather “I never expected to hear the mostly pacifist European governments openly discuss the possibility of World War III.”
Nobody, I think, is expecting the kind of apocalypse that we imagined during the Cold War. Tanks will not be rolling through the Fulda Gap, and the chance that nuclear weapons will begin flying isn’t exactly high, whatever the idiots at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists blather on about.
But it’s clear that many politicians and most European military leaders are genuinely concerned that some form of armed conflict could erupt between a Western European country and Russia.
I wrote a post on why this prospect is not as absurd as it seems. In a direct, military-on-military confrontation, Russia would…
