UKRAINE: WORLD WAR III?

From the Daily Mail.

EDWARD LUCAS: I hope I'm wrong but historians may look back and say this was the start of World War III

• 'Vladimir Putin is striking at the heart of the West'
• 'We can chose to surrender any responsibility we have to protect Ukraine and the Baltic states'
• 'Or we can mount a last-ditch attempt to deter Russia from furthering its imperial ambitions'
• 'If we choose to resist Putin, we will risk a terrifying miltary escalation'
• 'I do not think it an exaggeration to say this could bring us to the brink of nuclear war'