“We’re in an escalation phase, and Russia now is faced with a series of more extreme choices than before,” said Nigel Gould-Davies, the former U.K. He would use any means available in his vast arsenal - the nod to nuclear weapons was barely veiled - and wasn’t bluffing, he said. President Ronald Reagan eased the Cold War and the specter of nuclear Armageddon, is now gone.Įven with the horror of Japan’s Hiroshima and Nagasaki burned on humanity’s collective consciousness, the world finds itself once again contemplating the possible use of nuclear weapons.Īfter a series of humiliating setbacks on the battlefield, Putin has made it painfully clear that any attack on the newly annexed regions would be construed as an attack on Russia. 24 invasion of Ukraine by Russia, bringing ruinous war back to Europe.įriday seemed one of those watershed moments as Russian President Vladimir Putin signed treaties to illegally annex a large swath of eastern and southern Ukraine, like it did with Crimea in 2014.Ĭoming seven months into the conflict and with near daily nuclear threats by backs-to-the wall Kremlin leaders, Putin chilllingly vowed to protect the newly annexed regions by “all available means.” Almost immediately, Ukraine’s president countered by applying to join the NATO military alliance, setting Russia up to face off against the West.Īny thought that this kind of harrowing brinkmanship had ended with the 1980s when the last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and then U.S. “shock-and-awe″ war on Saddam Hussein’s Iraq two years later the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 killed millions and upended life and most recently the Feb.
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LONDON (AP) - There are moments in history that appear as critical to the world as they are terrifying.
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