You dont think a proxy war with the country with the most nuclear weapons risks anything?
You gotta stop an agressor at some point, Russia is most likely not going to stop at Ukraine if Putin gets away with it. Now the west has an opportunity to make Russia’s imperial ambitions more difficult without interfering directly. This, to me, is the least risky option.
As far as WW3, we are pushing together the Brics countries.
Gotta ask for a source or explanation again.
If the US had rejected Ukraines request to join NATO, this war would not be happening.
First of all, Ukraine wasn’t a part of NATO and considering that Russia already violated their territorial integrity before, Ukraine would have a hard time joining NATO.
Second of all, Ukrainian support for joining NATO was very low, until Russia annexed Crimea, after that happened Ukraine began actively trying to join NATO.[1] So Russia brought this onto themselves.
And how do you know how Russia would have acted, had things gone differently?
There is no answer, they cant defend themselves, they could never win. Giving them money and offering alliance has only made it worse.