The Ukrainian commander-in-chief paints the big picture in his recent paper:
“Having launched the large-scale armed aggression against Ukraine … Russia … gradually turns the military conflict it began in the centre of Europe into an armed confrontation between democratic and authoritarian political regimes with the prospect of its spread to other regions of the planet with similar geopolitical models (Israel and the Gaza Strip, South and North Koreas, Taiwan and China, etc.)”
I’ve been afraid of exactly that.
Here’s the link to his paper: https://infographics.economist.com/2023/ExternalContent/ZALUZHNYI_FULL_VERSION.pdf