I wouldn't expect to see Dnipro lit like a Christmas tree every night, or families with their kids out at the slopes during the day, or people just going about their lives.
Because that's what happened the last time the US declared war. (December 8, 1941)
I've been told that we're on the brink of real, actual war. I've been lead to believe that almost all of Russia's army is ready to storm the entire country of Ukraine.
For me, as an old fart... WWIII includes seeing a flash outside my window, and ceasing to be about 10 seconds later as it becomes 5000+ degrees. People further away from the heart of the nation's industrial capacity would eventually see thousands of mushroom clouds.
I expect the deaths of hundreds of millions, if not Billions, if WWIII kicks off.
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That's what I've been told to expect, but that's not what I actually expect. I expect this to be a lot of noise, a much smaller number of deaths. Still unnecessary, and tragic deaths, and deprivations.
I expect life in the US and everywhere not immediately in the area to continue as normal. I expect a wave of refugees. I expect backlash to build, as it is certainly building for the USA as we deliberately starve those in Afghanistan at the moment. (Really, the last time we did it, we got Bin Laden as part of the backlash, can't we learn?)
I know that nobody but an idiot, or someone with a profit to gain from it, wants war.
sorry about the rant, but that's my honest answer to your question
PS: If the other stupid possible outcome of this happens, and "cyber weapons" start to be used, the world could end up with large chunks of our infrastructure disabled for widely ranging periods of time. The knock-on effects of that could be anywhere from as bad as the effects of Covid19 to civilization ending.
No internet would happen only if Russia will bombard the infrastructure. What if they just invade eastern regions, why don't it qualify as invasion? They literally stated that they do not recognise the sovereignty of Ukraine on their government channel by their highest official.
People are going on about their lives — because they have nowhere to go, there is nothing they can do, why is this so hard to comprehend? Kyiv looks half-deserted, there is easily two times less cars on the road, and there is much less people on the streets, everyone buying matches and candles. People are scared.
In two days, 4 army Ukrainian army members have been killed by shelling.
