It's an interesting point - as a parent, do I want to risk WW3?
/rant incoming.
The answer is well no, of course I don't.
But I also know that I do not want my children to grow up afraid to speak, curbing their words except in the privacy of their own home and sometimes not even then. My partner said that when people walked the streets of his East German city, every single one wore a grey overcoat of silence. When they came home, they could take the metaphorical overcoat off at the door. Usually. Unless you couldn't trust your family.
Self-censorship and grey self-suppression serves the purpose of Russia and North Korea and all authoritarian regimes.
People fought for decades against it, and quite a lot died, sometimes in horrible prisons. Because it meant that much to them. Now, they don't have to fear their neighbours. They can quarrel over the noisy music or the fences without being afraid it'll tip the neighbours into reporting them for an injudicious comment, and then their children have to leave a good school and will never have a good job.
People chose to stand up under guns pointed at them and take the risk of a blood bath. Parents chose to run the risk of leaving their children orphans, farmed out to family or to become orphans of the state. Because not living in fear and repression meant that much to them. The Czech poets, the Polish Solidarity, at that point the brave Hungarians who strove for freedom made their own choices, but they also chose to act when they had children knowing what the result might be.
So I do choose to run the risk of WW3 if it has to be, driven by dreadful people like Putin and Kim Jong Un and the Talinban in Afghanistan. Women there once walked the streets freeling with their hair uncovered, went to university. Now they are imprisoned and children left entirely uneducated. I really, really don't want war to spread. But if you have two opposing authoritarian tyrants, that risk exists anyway. Life, and society, isn't safe. Cultures do collapse, and awfully, now there are nukes we might collapse a great deal of the world with it.
I have a bleak view - I don't think our culture, our societies will survive forever. Once the nuclear and biological weopons of mass destruction were developed, we started walking along a narrow line and not every leader is sensible or wise. One day two such leaders will clash, or a simple accident such as an earthquake rocking a bio weopon lab, or simple lack of good maintenance will allow something to escape.
But while we're around, I choose to support my sons in fighting for a world where reasonable freedom of expression exists. I do not want to live in a society where my ten year old can be removed from me and I will be sent to prison because he drew an anti-invasion poster. It's something worth fighting for, the freedom to say that you disagree with the government but my God we are under attack by Russia and sometimes others. And sadly, that does mean, if you're dealing with a hubristic tyrant like Putin, you do have to face that it all goes wrong. But I believe we have to risk that. Ours is an infinitely better life than the short lived drunkards in Archangelsk or the imprisoned women of Afghanistan or the raped women and children of Mariupol.
Yes, I will run that risk. If I have to. Unfortunately, we do.