Weakness and indecisiveness of the democratic West again leading to the worst scenario possible

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It's written in the books of history: a brutal dictatorship rising. Weakness of will; fluttering of the heart; indecisiveness and procrastination. Till it unleashes an all-out aggression causing unimaginable misery, devastation and unrecoverable losses.

Well, it's playing out right before our eyes with one major improvement: this time, the members of the aggressive Axis have enormous stockpiles of most destructive weapons ever in human history. Every single one of them will get it and we won't do anything about it because we can't.

Russia; North Korea; Iran; Syria; Belorussia; with China vaguely in the background (it is increasing assistance to North Korea instead of punishing it for supplying munitions to Putin; joint China - Russia ocean patrols). If it is emboldened and invigorated by inability of the collective West to enforce the rules of law it likes to boast about so much in its own backyard, what about Middle East? Taiwan? Africa? Will the world follow great preaching of the West illustrated by glaring absence of will and courage to show and adhere to them in the reality, when the need arises; or some hope of safety if they pledge to the Dark Axis?

It will only be a matter of time till West is locked in its little corner, like in a well-known fantasy story except with no good ending. How long it will be before the dark bunch will decide to test its resolve again, somewhere closer? We don't need to guess: it will happen. Not if, when.

And at that time, West will have a choice to make: to fight on a much weaker ground than now, a new global war on its own soil. A war that will quite likely, or almost certainly result in a nuclear escalation.

Or give in, and fade away. And with it, all hope of freedom, peace and security for the humanity that will go back to its dark, violent and authoritarian roots.

This is the same logic of gradual escalation, dictated by weakness of will and indecision in critical points of history that doesn't stop the aggressor with necessary force and immediately, and thus invites them to go all the way up the violence and brutality curve. Please try to find a flaw in it. Just one plausible scenario in which it won't happen.

So, can we learn? The apparent answer is: No.