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How The War In Ukraine Could Go Nuclear

FiveThirtyEight Politics

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Is President Zelensky Trying to Retake Crimea or Is He Just Saying That?

President Zelensky has said that he intends to not stop fighting until Ukraine is whole including Crimea given that you've put a 20% chance on Putin using nuclear weapons if president Zelensky's actually trying to pursue his stated goals. I don't know whether Zelenski's talk right now about taking back Crimea is rhetoric or whether for a domestic audience or whether he really means it but if Ukrainian forces are ever in a position to take back Crimea they may never be.

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