We may not be going into WW3 with Russia over Syria after all.

[CapnAwesome]

WW3...with Russia?  A country with a GDP less than a US state?  It would be the shortest world war in history.  That's the big lie...the one Putin tries hard to peddle.  That Russia, on it's own and by it's own merit..is still a credible threat to anyone.  A powerful state.  It's not.  Those days are gone.  We're a threat to ourselves...and Russia can use that...but that place, itself is a rinkydink shithole with a cartoon version of the mafia calling the shots.

The only credible candidates for WW3 anymore are the US, the EU, and China.  Look at that list.  Allies whose fates are almost inextricably intertwined.  China isn't even going to come riding in over N. Korea...in all likelihood...they'll be the ones to eventually bitchslap the shit out of them. They have more reason to than we do.

Sure, it;s a matter of time until some asshole detoinates a nuke somewhere (or worse........a massively virulent bioweapon)...and that might have seemed like a WW3 scenario at the end of WW2...or during the cold war. Now, it;ll just be a horrible act of terrorism or aggression by a pariah state. Dealt with immediately by the global community, if for no other reason, than their own self interests.

Russia can turn every major city in the U.S. to glass in a matter of minutes. It doesn't really matter what their gdp is.