Please, NO.

[AverageJoe90]

51. "Very well could be the beginning of WW3." I very HIGHLY doubt that.

Probably the biggest problem with your idea.....is the enormous amount of risk that would come with that.
First of all, both China & Russia are heavily dependent on the international market, particularly the former; do you really think Beijing would want to make that kind of a gamble? Their economy would collapse within a week! And then there's the nuclear question: as much of a crook as Putin is, do you really think he'd be willing to gamble with 160 million Russian lives over a dictator whom, like the Iranians, even if not by as much of a degree, isn't exactly a genuine ally, and might actually turn on them in the right circumstances? Putin may be a crook, ditto for Hu Jintao, but he's no Hitler.....Hitler might actually just have gone and nuked people if he'd gotten the chance to do so.

I don't doubt this has the potential to turn into a very nasty regional war, but definitely not WWIII; even Yom Kippur and the war in '82 didn't get to that stage, and both of them had a rather higher chance of doing so, too, in a much more polarized and less connected world.