[rrwo]

"A deadly explosion in Poland kicked off hours of near-gleeful speculation about whether NATO would join the fight against Russia."

I don't think it was "gleeful" at all. It seems like NATO members were scrambling around to find any evidence that it was an accident.

[Waterluvian]

It also didn’t come remotely close to WWIII. Such a stupidly written article. Frustrating how much noise there is.

[mint2]

The article is beyond naive and simple in its opinions.

Not only your point, but layer on the fact that by appearing to take it so seriously yet assessing thoroughly before taking actions, it heavily heavily dissuades any actual attack which would actually risk rapid escalation.