WWIII won't be a repeat of WWII. Expect it to go nuclear from the start and we will take hits. Our missile defense systems will knock down some of Russia's ICBMs but not all of them. Sure, we'll nuke Russia right back but history has shown they are capable of absorbing tremendous losses. Are we? We don't know. We've never been tested. We suffered less than a half million KIA in WWII. The USSR lost 26 million.
We came out on top because while Europe was left in smoldering ruins, our infrastructure was untouched. It won't be like that this time. What do you think a half dozen nuked cities will do to our economy? How many Nimitz-class carriers are we willing to see vaporized by nuclear-tipped Russian torpedoes? We only have 10 of them and they are enormous national investments that take years to build.
So for some reason you think that Russia wants to end it all in nuclear war.
What exactly is going on the world today, that in 2015 makes Russia want to just launch WWIII and end it all?