Is Ukraine Headed for Peace or Nuclear War?

The proxy war being waged in Ukraine carries the ever-present danger of escalating into a nuclear conflict. Russia is winning the war on the battlefield. Ukraine’s army is decimated, its economy gutted, and its environment devastated. Hundreds of thousands have been killed or wounded. Either the war will end at the negotiating table, with some kind of peace agreement, or the West will decide to escalate along a path of ever greater and more direct confrontation with Russia. What are the decisions – past, present, and future – that could lead us to World War III?

On the one hand, the West’s policies – of encouraging the expansion of NATO, withdrawing from crucial nuclear treaties, stationing nuclear-capable missiles in Romania and Poland, assisting Ukraine’s drone attacks on Russia’s early-warning radar systems and nuclear-capable bombers, allowing the use of NATO countries’ long-range missiles to strike deep within Russia – are headed for  disaster. On the other hand, Russia has adopted a new doctrine that declares it could carry out nuclear attacks in response to any attack on its territory by a non-nuclear state backed by a nuclear armed power. … Where will it end?

Veteran defense policy analyst Richard Krushnic will examine multiple scenarios in which this war could end, either in peace or in Armageddon.

Richard Kruschnic writes about military corporate influence over U.S. foreign policy, the Ukraine War and Raytheon Technologies. He continues to be involved in the community development financing in Cambridge, MA, and Nicaragua.  In addition to the Ukraine Committee, he works with MAPA’s Nuclear Disarmament and Latin America and Caribbean working groups, and Mass Public Banking.

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