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Will Vladimir Putin Escalate the Brutality in Ukraine?

WSJ Opinion: Free Expression

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Is There a Risk of a Direct Conflict With the Ukranians?

I think we cannot be deterred from doing what we need to to help the ucranians on the ground and with air defences by puten's threats of nuclear or chemical weapons. The odds of him using those are very, very low for a variety of reasonsand it also has a lesson for other places, including china. Biological weapons are basically uncontrollable once, once you let them loose, you have no idea where they're going to go. When it comes to nuclear weapons, the winds blow to the east, so anything they set off in eastern ukraine is going to end up in russia. And so the only purpose of a weapon of mass destruction at this

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