World War III has so far been avoided

And then it got worse.
On their first day at work in Kiev, armed men seized the parliament building on Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula. By last week, Moscow had snatched Crimea and declared it part of Russia. Many Ukrainians feared that the eastern part of their country would be next. Europe and the United States looked on, struggling to find the sanctions that would restrain Russian President Vladimir Putin. A new Cold War was declared underway, and Ukraine was caught in the middle of it.
At least, as they’re saying here, World War III has so far been avoided. But what’s next?
“We had people ready to manage a normal country,” said Igor Burakovsky, head of a think tank, “but we found ourselves in abnormal circumstances.”
The new government is a temporary one, organized after then-President Viktor Yanukovych fled Kiev on Feb. 22, hours after he agreed with opposition members of parliament to leave office in December, when elections would be held.
Once he was gone, the opposition had to scramble, setting up the temporary government and scheduling a presidential election for May 25 — now only two months away. It’s still unclear who will run and whether leaders will emerge who can unite the country and inspire confidence among voters who have high expectations for change but no longer trust any politicians.
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Loss of Crimea is only one problem for Kiev

Yes. So far World War III has been avoided but for how long? If we compare what Putin is doing in Crimea and Ukraine to what Hitler did first in taking two countries during his first country taking exploits in 1940, over the next years he eventually took every country in Europe but Switzerland and Great Britain. Is this what Putin has in mind to do too? Or is he just interested in all the previous countries that were behind the Iron curtain? 

And you can bet for sure that Germany, France and England wouldn't surrender before using their nukes on Russia.