Countries like ours are weak and have a tendency to pursue appeasement. The Russians and Chicoms have no such issues, since they both have a long traditional of brutal oriental despotism. They understand that power comes from the barrel of a gun, and both these countries are getting bored of just shooting their own people. Now they want variety, and openly speak of nuclear war within their own state controlled media, with the United States as the "bad guys" who will be turned into "radioactive ash."
We might not have a choice on whether the next world war starts.
This is what I am trying to explain..and that is why i have been saying, no one is going to help them because the EU has become liberal wimp out central that frankly is mired down in legal red tape to even start a war and Obama’s WH has about the military intelligence and might of a doormouse.
Russia would be in Kiev before the EU or The US could get all its reps and senators back from the holidays on the coast to even take a vote, no such problems in Russia or China of that nature, just a do it quick before they notice.