Zelensky would have WW3 happen to save Ukraine. This conflict is b/t Ukraine & Russia. Zelensky aspired to have Ukraine join NATO and now wants a No Fly Zone where NATO forces must shoot down Russian fighter jets flying overhead, which could trigger nuclear war. Plus he does not 
actually know what Putin’s end game is. Saying “Europe will fall if Ukraine falls” is dangerous. Putin, using his words, is conducting a “special military operation”. An “educated guess” is he wants a Ukraine divided along the Dnieper River & a coastal land strip connecting
Donbas to Crimea. West Ukraine remains a democracy under Zelensky, East Ukraine elects a pro-Russian President & Odessa stays in WU. Europe doesn’t “fall” in this scenario. That’s what this “special military operation” is. Nothing more. Nothing less. Imo. That’s the most rational
end game Putin could take. Russia will have East Ukraine as a buffer just as DPRK is a buffer against US ally South Korea. A “regime change” for all of Ukraine might not hold if there’s popular resistance against a pro-Russian president. Recall the 2014 Maidan Revolution ousting
Yanukovych. It would be a far greater strategic coup if Putin could divide Ukraine into two sovereign countries (reminiscent of the US & USSR dividing Korea back in the 1940s). It solves the Donbas issue (an East Ukrainian from the DPR or LPR might be elected president), West
Ukraine must forfeit NATO membership, pro-West Ukrainians live in WU and pro-Russia Ukrainians live in EU, and Russia’s security concerns are met (w/ no help or cooperation from the West). And there’ll be no intentional or accidental triggering of Article 5 anytime soon.
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