That is the stark reality the world faces as a result of the U.S.’s aggressive nuclear policy and posture, which has driven Russia to consider adopting a nuclear first-strike doctrine like that of the United States, author, professor, and former Reagan-era Treasury official Paul Craig Roberts warned in his Dec. 12 column,
“A Hair Trigger on Endgame.” (https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2022/12/12/a-hair-trigger-on-endgame/
“The insouciance of Washington and its European puppets toward the dangerous situation they are provoking with Russia is frightening. The Western world is now led by people who have made it clear that they will risk nuclear war in their pursuit of American hegemony. Evil has clearly triumphed in the Western world,” Roberts writes.