Jeremy Shapiro, a foreign policy expert, wrote an article detailing a rational, step-by-step escalation of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, which he believes could potentially lead to nuclear war.
We Are on a Path to Nuclear War
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Jeremy Shapiro, a foreign policy expert, wrote an article detailing a rational, step-by-step escalation of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, which he believes could potentially lead to nuclear war.
We Are on a Path to Nuclear War
Russia has laid out all kinds of red lines. They said that there would be a war... They said that there was going to be crazy response if we delivered aircraft, anti-aircraft systems. That didn't happen. They keep saying and threatening the nuclear, beating the nuclear drum and we keep basically doing it.
no rational or even sane leader plans to start a nuclear war... Once an escalatory cycle begins, a series of individually rational steps can add up to a world ending absurdity.
both sides have publicly pledged that they cannot lose this war... In the Russian case particularly, a loss in Ukraine would seem to threaten regime survival and even the territorial integrity of the country.