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Turns out that being the front of yet another US/Russian proxy war sucks, as it always does, and maybe you should have thought about that before happily volunteering your country for the job.
I'm sure the next country the US wants to proxy into oblivion will learn from Ukraine, right?
That would be Taiwan, possibly alongside Korea and Japan, right?
I think this is likely. I could see the US starting a proxy somewhere in South America too but nothing feels particularly primed for it. Taiwan definitely seems like the next major bet.
If it's not Taiwan, it might be somewhere else that is regional specifically to keep China busy. India, something like that. The US values Taiwan extremely highly because of TSMC so they may decide that starting a war there is too risky.
US and Taiwan both are perfectly happy with the status quo, they would be the last people to start any wars there.