Ukraine-Russia News

The worst-case scenario is grim, but unfortunately, there is a real possibility this is just the beginning of a much larger war, potentially a world war.

So here we go…

In the worst-case scenario, the current peace talks will break down in the coming days. Ukraine has described the talks as “difficult” with Putin standing firm on his demands of disarming Ukraine and ensuring they don’t ever join NATO.

Without any hope of a peaceful resolution, Putin will up the ante and send more troops.

Unfortunately, the fact of the matter is Russia vastly outnumbers Ukraine in troops. Putin is known to have a temper and will do anything to win. If he gets frustrated with the resistance, he will likely continue sending troops, no matter the cost of lives, until he breaks Ukraine and takes over.

In this scenario, Putin will play dirty, as he already is, but it will get worse. He will order his army to target civilians and use every brutal weapon at his disposal to achieve his objective.

Ukraine may hold out for another week, but eventually, Putin will gain control of Ukraine, with many military and civilian lives lost.

Here’s what happens next…

Russia will install a puppet government that will answer to Putin, and any civilians who resist will be jailed or killed.

The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, will fight till the end but will eventually be captured. In this scenario, Putin will likely want to make a public example of Zelensky.

Zelensky will be tried in a Russian “kangaroo court” and found guilty of “genocide”, as Putin terms it. We will see him sentenced to life in prison, or worse, executed for the world to see. Putin governs by fear and will want to send a clear message that he is all-powerful, so we can guarantee that this will be broadcasted to the people of Russia, Ukraine, and the whole world.

With Ukraine under Russian control, it’s still unlikely that Putin would step foot on any NATO soil — he wants Soviet Russia back, but he doesn’t want World War 3. Equally, for the same reason, NATO countries will likely watch as Russia takes over Ukraine without sending a single soldier to fight a Russian.

Here’s how it gets worse:

In order to take Ukraine, Putin orders all weapons to be used at his disposal, including cyber weapons. Russian hackers will send malicious malware into Ukrainian cyberspace to disrupt the power grid and military infrastructure.

Experts have already detected a new type of computer-disabling malware that’s been used alongside Russia’s military assault.

The problem with cyber attacks is that computer viruses don’t understand NATO borders. In a catastrophic scenario, we could see a Russian cyberattack launched on Ukraine accidentally spread through cyberspace into a NATO country.

NATO countries that border Ukraine, like Poland and Romania, could be hit by Russian cyberattacks that were aimed at Ukraine. If a Russian computer virus attacks infrastructure like hospitals in these countries, many lives could be lost.

In this worst-case scenario, Russia accidentally unleashes a cyberattack on a NATO country. The NATO secretary general has said in the past that “a serious cyberattack could trigger Article 5, where an attack against one ally is treated as an attack against all.”

This would be a world war, Russia vs. all 30 NATO countries.

This is the most likely scenario that could bring all the NATO countries into war with Russia.

It gets even worse:

Much like many experts believe Biden’s handling of Afghanistan emboldened Putin to attack Ukraine, the Russian takeover of Ukraine will embolden China to invade Taiwan.

With NATO at war with Russia, China will see this as its golden opportunity to achieve its goal of capturing Taiwan. China initiates a full-scale military assault on Taiwan and then western countries come running to help the people of Taiwan.

In this scenario, China and Russia see a common enemy and form an alliance. Belarus is already helping Putin with Ukraine and will naturally join this alliance.

World War 3 will be NATO vs. the alliance of Russia, China, and Belarus.

Whether World War 3 could see the use of nuclear weapons is a possibility, but still highly unlikely. Every country knows that nuclear war is the end for everyone, and luckily, the decision to launch nuclear weapons ultimately lies with a country’s military. Even in a scenario where Putin was crazy, he doesn’t have the sole authority to launch a nuclear weapon without military approval.

This is the most likely worst-case scenario.