Analysis: Does the crisis in Ukraine foreshadow a broader war?
by Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
Feb 26, 2022
3 minutes
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WASHINGTON — The sights and sounds coming from Ukraine — the screams of air raid sirens, explosions, the rumbling of armored personnel carriers down rural roads — all happening in the middle of Europe inevitably conjure memories of World War II.
But do they also foreshadow a broader war that will consume scores of countries?
World War II, a savage conflict fought across the globe from 1939 to 1945, gave birth to NATO, a transatlantic alliance of the U.S. and major Western European nations. The
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