How exactly could this conflict escalate into a wider pan-European conflict that drags in Nato?
Nato ministers have been meeting in Brussels this past week to discuss how far they should go in providing military equipment to Ukraine.
The US did not follow suit as it detected no movement of Russian nuclear warheads out of their secure storage bunkers. But Putin's point was made. He was effectively saying: "Russia has a massive nuclear arsenal so don't think you can push us around." And yet, with every atrocity apparently committed by Russian soldiers, Nato's resolve stiffens and its inhibitions melt away. The Czech Republic has already sent tanks, admittedly outdated Soviet-era T72s, but they are the first Nato country to do so. Slovakia is sending its S300 air defence missile systems. Both such moves would have seemed improbably risky when this war began.
So how exactly could this Russia-Ukraine war escalate into a wider pan-European conflict that drags in Nato?
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