If the invasion of a sovereign democratic country isn't a good enough pretext to send troops to Ukraine, the shellling of a nuclear power plant won't be either.
You're wrong. A nuclear incident in Ukraine makes this a global problem, not a regional problem.

Interesting you call them democratic. I wonder what you were saying when the democratically elected pro-Russian government was overthrown in 2013?

This is even more ridiculous than parachuting in a fake Russian army unit. What Ukrainians are going to set fire to their own nuclear plant?
It's a building on the outskirts of the site. At no point did the reactors look in danger. I'm suggesting that the motivation might exist, yes.

"Here, Ukrainian agent. Go blow up your nuclear station"
No. "Here, Ukrainian agent, go start a controlled fire and we'll use propaganda to make it look like the world just dodged a nuclear bullet".

That's how I would imagine such an incident playing out.

It's fine to entertain ideas, but you should at least think about what reason there would be to do it for NATO. So they can go in and start WWIII? You think that's what the West wants?
Who knows? We threw nukes about to end WWII, and somehow convinced everyone it was for the greater good. We can take Russia out now before they get stronger, and convince the world it's for the greater good. Maybe it would be for the greater good. Maybe WWIII now is better than WWIII in 20 years.

So yes, maybe NATO do want WWIII.

Russia has a long history of not caring about people's lives.
So does every country that ever went to war. You do know how many people NATO have killed, right? It's a lot. And those lives weren't lost defending NATO territory. They were lost defending NATO interests.

I don't think I've ever once suggested that Russia are the good guys. But NATO are not the good guys either. The West are not the good guys. Our recent history shows we are no better than Putin. Ok we might revolve our leaders, but the same people pull the strings of government, which is why foreign policy never changes. USA foreign policy is UK foreign policy. It's NATO foreign policy. The West. We're basically USA's sphere of influence.

I'd rather be on NATO's side than Russia's, but not because of any moral reason. Simply because I think NATO is much, much stronger.