Senior Policy Director John Erath authored an op-ed in The National Interest arguing that the dangerous combination of ignoring Russia’s failures while at the same time emphasizing nuclear options risks opening the door to a dangerous cycle of escalation.
“Russian president Vladimir Putin has made a dangerous choice. Not the one to invade Ukraine, although that has proved disastrous for everyone involved. Nor the one to continue wasting Russian lives in an increasingly unwinnable war. Instead, perhaps the riskiest decision to come from the Kremlin has been the increasing tendency to attribute the failures of the Russian military to foreign assistance provided to Ukraine and employ threats of nuclear force to discourage such aid. The dangerous combination of ignoring Russia’s failures while at the same time emphasizing nuclear options risks opening the door to a dangerous cycle of escalation.” Read more
