Thompson Reuters is a Canadian 53% owned company with main office in New York city. It can be biased but I have not scrutinized their news flow. NPR and PBS focus on American news and does not have own reporters outside USA but rather just relay other news agencies stuff.
As for Russia not much is clear yet. I have seen private video clips with American made planes and very old Russian planes flying in formation above Ukrainian city . Russia does not use American planes. In an aerial combat you would not fly in formation. It's a Ukrainian army show of strength. Most likely in an response of Russian missile attack against military bases. Ukraine claims to have shot down 5 Russian planes. Could be drones or missiles as well. Nobody knows. It looks like Russia got tired of Nato poking in their nest and are now swarming like Wasps. Like Wasps they will sting anything that moves. The probable outcome of this is that other Russian enclaves around the world will be repatriated to Russia again. For those enclaves it's probably good, for Ukraine, Moldavia, Georgia etc not so good. Belarus, Turkey and China has clearly chosen side and that makes it look bad for Taiwan and Kurdistan as well. We can only hope that this doesn't spread to the Korean peninsula. If that happens we can possibly see the end of western civilization as we know it. USA and Nato is not a match against Communist and former communist countries. Yes I know Americans believes them self to be invincible but they made them self to reliable on Chinese tech and I would not be surprised that a lot of microchips will turn of in a conflict. Interesting what India will do. If they choose US side, Pakistan and Bangladesh will attack them as all other Muslim countries will join the communists. And Europe is full om Muslim men now. My suggestion is to let Russia have it's way with Ukraine. But who knows what they will tell Biden to do?
No, microchips don't work that way. Especially the cheap, commodity controllers and drivers that are made in China. The high performance chips used in military hardware are US- or European-made by law, and are exactly the ones that never go to Russia, China, Pakistan, etc.. None of them "turn off" in a conflict. China could possibly design systems with "back doors" to allow special access, but that's why the US outlawed Chinese 5G hardware.
China and Russia do have powerful militaries, but their technology is over 20 years behind the US and Western Europe, in most cases.
Lastly, taking sides in this conflict won't open new wars. Russia is almost fully committed to its war with Ukraine don't don't have capacity to strike at Korea or even Finland.
A common mistake that westerners do is that they do not understand other cultures. They project human traits even on animals! Thinking that all people behave the same. So if a westerner think that Russia will not use nuclear weapons it's based on a westerner mentality. This is very dangerous and US and EU politicians clearly have not a clue as to what they are doing. Ukrainian oligarchs and their President think they knew what they were doing but now they suffer the consequences. One would think being Slaves they should now but they were under the influence of western capitalist and advisers seeking to take over Ukraine's economic system as they have done with all western systems. Today on the news Ursula von Leyen proclaims that Ukraine will become a EU and Nato member. This is in principle a declaration of war against Russia since already many countries proclaim to want to send military supplies to Ukraine, that include Sweden who is going to send 5000 armor piercing anti tank guns according to Swedish statsminister Magdalena Andersson (a US puppet recently put there by the Biden administration!) Also a declaration of war! Sweden will need those weapons them self shortly. Our defense capabilities are very limited. We have spent the last 20 years scrapping almost everything. A couple of submarines, some planes and anti aircraft missiles and 18 years old kids with very limited training. By law all Swedish women and Men up to age of 75 must help in defense! I don't understand how a 74 year old women is going to make a difference!
In reality some rich greedy idiots who don't need more money have forced Biden to start this war. All the preparations we have seen the last two years. Covid sanctions, fuel prices increasing and climate change. Why do you think western countries have worked so hard to not to be fossil fuel dependent? It's not because of the climate but rather to have possibility to cope when Arabs and Russians turn of the supply. I wonder how the battery powered tanks will work? I said it before these economic dragons and there puppets should be arrested and put on trial before we have WW3 on our hands. Russia will not back down. Soon EU will have no more fuel making Covid a breeze before the storm and the worst crises humanity has ever seen will come. 10 years from now those western leaders will stand trial in Moscow for crimes of war, climate and humanity and be executed! Think about it Boris, Ursula, Magdalena etc. Biden is soon dead so he need not to worry. Republicans need to impeach Biden administration and declare a new election as soon as possible and put Trump in power again. No one else can solve this or prepare for a new world order to come, Moscow and Peking style.
To be honest I don't want a war but a new world order I can accept.
You seem somewhat intelligent. Unfortunately, your writing style makes it a challenge to keep reading. You might want to use paragraphs and break things up a bit rather than one LONG message. Just my 2 cents
