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Is there a risk that this would be the modern day Lusitania [1]? i.e. provoke full scale kinetic world war [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lusitania h

• meepmorp 4y ago
  Not really. It's been pretty obvious for years who shot it down and where the missile came from, as eastern Ukraine was experiencing a major infestation of little green men at the time. It might inspire some extra support from Ukraine in the Netherlands, for example, but the risk factors for a world war aren't closely tied to it. If there's a world war that comes from Ukraine, it'll be something stupid like an attack on Poland from Belarus or via indirect pressure on other conflicts. IMO, you're more likely to see something big kick off in the Pacific in the next couple decades, almost certainly involving direct fighting between the US and China.
• cafard 4y ago
  When the Lusitania sank a) the full-scale world war had been on for the best part of a year, and b) it was two years before the US entered that war.