Certainly, terrifying watching the war's coverage on twitter. Seems Ukraine is putting up more of a fight than the Russian's expected though with the major breakout in the South to Kherson and the current battle over the airport west of Kiev who knows how long they can hold. The casualties on both sides must be intense though, based off what I've seen so far probably KIA in the high hundreds and WIA in the thousands for Russia and KIA and WIA in the high thousands for Ukraine.
The current cyber attacks on Russian websites are likely from the US/NATO which together with the war being close to NATO borders will create very dangerous possibilities for expansion of the war. Can very easily see scenarios where Russia's shoot down NATO aircraft or do artillery barrages against Ukrainian positions near Romania or Poland leading to the possibility of escalation. This thing is extremely dangerous.
The current 1984-esque thinking by China is mind boggling of we 'respect Ukraine's sovereignty' while also saying this is not an invasion and they understand 'Russia's legitimate security concerns.'
I'll expect Finland and Sweden to either go outright NATO applicants or just short of in military partnership in the near future.
The fate of Moldova will be interesting as that is still a sore spot for Romania as the people are ethnic Romanians that Russia has repeatedly separated from Romania and tried to russify over that last two centuries.
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