Russian Nuclear Forces on High Alert

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i was curious about his reported statement that he was putting his nuclear forces on high alert. Potton seems like a long termd strategic thinker, and it didn't seem in character for him to be making such a rash statement. The only partially correct headline that i saw out of hundreds was one small news article from c n n. Andi just seems to me, no, this seems to be a bizarre sort of fluke kind of thing. You don't see people lining up sayg now i can get back at my neighbor, you know, by attacking and so forth. I am getting on the band wagon, noat myself, and pray made on practical thing though,. i really

In this conversation with the renowned Ohio State University political scientist John Mueller, author of The Stupidity of War, Retreat from Doomsday: The Obsolescence of Major War, and The Remnants of War, we discuss the ongoing crisis in Ukraine and what we might expect from Putin’s Russia in the coming weeks, months, and years, along with Dr. Mueller’s outline for how to end the current conflict and compromise with Putin. That seems unlikely at this point, but the prospects of the tragedy of millions of war refugees pouring out of Ukraine into neighboring nations, along with the number killed already and likely to be killed as the fighting escalates, why not give negotiation and compromise a chance? Read John Mueller’s op-ed that accompanies this episode.