> We need to get rid of the illusion that WW3 isn’t happening already.

Checks outside. No, WW3 definitely isn't already happening.

> with no warmongering dictators

So, once Putin is dealt with, you're headed off to depose the Saudi and Emirati regimes?

Once they start invading (erghm I mean performing special operations) other countries, sure. Add China to that list as well.

I asked my relatives to show me outside and it certainly does look like WW3 in Kyiv and Kharkiv.

> erghm I mean performing special operations

So, the Saudis haven't been bombing Yemen since 2015? I mean it's only a conflict that resulted in the deaths of over 100,000 people. One would think that would cause more outrage.

> it certainly does look like WW3 in Kyiv and Kharkiv.

But somehow it wasn't WW3 when it happened to Herat or Aleppo or Halabja or Hargeisa or Burao or Grozny.

It's almost as if an isolated conflict and a world war are different.

Invasion of Poland literally triggered WW2 with the UK and France declaring war against Germany. Has anything comparable happened yet? No? Then how is it different from any of the dozens of wars fought since WW2?

The UK guaranteed the independence of Poland with an agreement that in language is the same as the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances. The West is refusing to fulfill its current obligations under the spirit of that agreement, the same way the UK could have failed to fulfill their agreement in 1939.

So in retrospect saying “it literally triggered WW2” provides zero informational context as to the situation as it is currently happening.

With the Budapest Memorandum, the UK agreed to

> Seek immediate Security Council action to provide assistance to Belarus, Kazakhstan or Ukraine if they "should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used".

Which it did.

While the British assurance to Poland was:

> ...in the event of any action which clearly threatened Polish independence, and which the Polish Government accordingly considered it vital to resist with their national forces, His Majesty's Government would feel themselves bound at once to lend the Polish Government all support in their power.

That isn't remotely the same language.

The West is refusing to escalate the conflict which might trigger a world war. It isn't a world war yet and there is no appetite in the West for one.

In other words, WW2 could have been stopped if we would have just let Hitler exterminate the Jews and Slavs.

Remind me, which country intervened in WW2 with the express purpose of stopping the extermination of Jews and Slavs?

> Has anything comparable happened yet? No?

Yes, the invasion of Ukraine. Have you not heard?