NATO is supporting a sovereign state, a democracy, and a country whose interests have become increasingly aligned with most other European nations, against an authoritarian regime that has brought the biggest war to Europe since 1945. The strong NATO response to the February 2022 invasion is justified. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a violation and a blatant challenge to a fundamental element of the international system: the territorial integrity of states and the rejection of allowing borders to be altered by force. The path to world war, however, may not be obvious, even when we’re right on it. The United States has been cautious and smart on this, but it has also been lucky. Once nuclear weapons began to enter the arsenals of more nations, both during and after the Cold War, the risks of triggering World War III escalated even more.
Fortunately, most of the Cold War consisted of mutual superpower hostility without direct military confrontation among the superpowers themselves, particularly after the near miss in Cuba. There were times during the Cold War when we seemed to come close, never more so than during the Cuban Missile Crisis. and David BernellĮver since the end of World War II, politicians and analysts have been worrying about World War III.
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