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As Russia’s new invasion of Ukraine nears its second week, Putin’s war of choice seems set to enter a uniquely dangerous phase—one that vastly increases the chances of global ramifications ...
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The Ukraine War Could Go Nuclear
While Russia possesses the world’s largest arsenal of tactical nuclear weapons and maintains an intentionally ambiguous ...
In Putin's Ukraine war, some experts worry about possible nuclear escalation Russian President Vladimir Putin gave orders to his nation's nuclear forces over the weekend, but their exact ...
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will travel to Brussels to participate in the meeting of NATO defense ministers amid an escalation in the Russia-Ukraine war, the Defense Department announced ...
In the spring of 2018, four years before his second invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered an unusual speech about the growing strength of the Russian military. “To those ...
Putin told the West last year that Russia was technically ready for nuclear war and that if the U.S. sent troops to Ukraine, it would be considered a significant escalation of the conflict.
In the biggest escalation of the Ukraine war since Moscow's Feb. 24 invasion, Putin explicitly raised the spectre of a nuclear conflict, approved a plan to annex a chunk of Ukraine the size ...
For many Russians, the war in Ukraine did not begin in February but September, when Putin announced his plans for mass mobilization of soldiers, starting with 300,000 new conscripts as a move to ...
Putin cast the war in Ukraine as a struggle for Russia’s very existence—at the hands of not the Ukrainian Army but, rather, the combined forces of the collective West.