Originally posted by: TotalBetty
So most Iranian missiles failed to launch or crashed before striking? Imagine if all of them had successfully hit the target
Would that be the beginning of WW3? I guess we would need a separate thread then
I don't like Russia's role in supporting Iran, although they have been historically good to India. However, on the Sino-Indian dispute, they recognize Beijing's claims to Aksai Chin, rather than Delhi's. Similarly, they have all the rogue allies in the Middle East - Iran, Turkey & the Palestinians
That said, I don't think they'll allow WW3 to start due to Iran. They still have a comms channel to Israel, which allows Israel to make raids on Iranian targets in Syria, w/o damaging anything Russian. Israel also had avoided taking sides in the Russo-Ukraine war, since there are Jews in both countries whose well-being is in the minds of Jerusalem (and both countries had long histories of anti-Semitism under both the Romanovs and the Soviets). If the Ukraine war didn't start WW3, Mid East won't either
Only thing that will start WW3 is the US now trying to admit Ukraine into NATO, & follow that w/ putting military bases in Ukraine. That would be as incendiary as the Soviet bases in Cuba in 1962, Cuba is a lot farther from Washington DC than Ukraine is from Moscow, Therefore, having NATO missiles in Ukraine would be a direct threat to the city that has 10% of Russia's population. Since Biden's popularity is at an all time low, one can see him trying to start WW3 since no wartime president in the US ever lost re-election. But if that happens, the US as a country is over
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