hy is Germany building bunkers and preparing for war ?
Decades of fundamental misunderstanding of russian national aspirations?
Realization that the tepid non-response to 2014 has led directly to the current moment and russia won't stop until it's stopped.
russia can't take over Europe any more than it can take over all of Ukraine... but it can do a tremendous amount of damage trying and sh[twit westerners like Merkel, Scholz, Biden, Macron etc either didn't care or didn't realize until now that that's the case.
WWIII has already begun (weak responses by the west are largely responsible) the only question is how bad it will get and where and if nukes will be used and if so how many and where (I wouldn't be completely surprised if russia thinks it can nuke somewhere in Syria to try to make an idiotic russian point about something).
Instead of American blood being spilled on foreign soil it very well could be European blood spilled on European soil.
It's not like Europeans were sitting at home safe will American soldiers fought.... plenty of European blood (far more than American) was shed on European soil by the lovers of war.