Sanctions on Russia

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It looks like US is going ahead with sanctions on Russia what are you thoughts do you think we are headed to WW3

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It looks like US is going ahead with sanctions on Russia what are you thoughts do you think we are headed to WW3

 

No but the sanctions are what led to the attack by Japan at Pearl Harbor in WWII to crank off our direct involvement.

 

Also, the way this has started is what led to WWI and strangely enough, in the same area. 

WWI was a screw up of alliances where one country was obligated to attack another in what should have been a border war and one by one different countries stepped in to back up one side or the other. Strangely, some countries has alliances with both sides of the conflict and had to choose which side that they would enter the conflict on.

 

In WWII, Japan had an embargo against it from the USA after Japan refused to end their occupation of China. They were running out of resources and had to either give up China or attack other lands to get what the USA was not sending them. They really didn't care about conquering us but knew that we would attack them if they invaded various new locations so they did a preemptive strike to take out our fleet. 

 

And no, I do not think this is likely to cause WWIII mostly because we will not get involved other than sanctions and I don't think that Russia is prepared to take over other countries to gain what they lose in sanctions.