NATO or not, the French and the German Minister of War Pistolius are already escalating things completely.
Actually, it is already a direct declaration of war from Germany to Russia as the German army leadership has openly and actively discussed and planned how best to destroy the Crimean Bridge with German weapons and how to attack Russian positions.
They just hadn't yet agreed on how to bend it so that the Russians wouldn't find out that Germany was insolvent. The Russians have all these conversations of the German army leadership on tape and Germany has not denied that it is making plans for attacks on Russia.
Let's put it this way, if the current boss in the Kremlin wasn't so reluctant, he'd have plenty of reason to declare war on the Germans or to reduce the Taurus plant in Germany to rubble.
This damn warmongering in Europe is getting completely out of hand and the governments here want to escalate this damn war at all costs, and it's going to happen.
They reject a diplomatic solution by all means, they say that Russia must be defeated at all costs, they have sealed the fate of the whole of Europe because there is virtually no one left who can or will turn this tide.
I maintain that we have days, maybe a few weeks, but it will end in a war.
It may be that you in the USA have You are lucky that it won't spread to the USA, but Europe will burn, and Europe will burn hot, unless a miracle happens, which unfortunately is not in sight at the moment.
Even the shitty media here are already on the track of writing that we have to be prepared for war, and not even the bosses of the shitty media make the statement that seeking a diplomatic solution would be better than the alternative of millions of people being grilled in a nuclear fire.