Of course any future war will look like the Ukraine - 'terrorists' on one side, proxy states and 'aid' on the other.

The idea that national armies will go marching all over Europe in a WW2-ish kind of a way is way past its use-by date.

In any case, we may not live that long. Putin is being backed into a corner by the US, economically and militarily.

That's not a good thing to be doing to the world's biggest nuclear superpower.