Will The Russia-Ukraine War Turn Into A Nuclear Catastrophe?
President Putin has repeatedly threatened that he might use nuclear weapons if Russia’s territorial integrity is threatened. Will he?
K. P. Fabian retired from the Indian Foreign Service in 2000, when he was ambassador to Italy and Permanent Representative to the United Nations. His book Commonsense on War on Iraq was published in 2003.
President Putin has repeatedly threatened that he might use nuclear weapons if Russia’s territorial integrity is threatened. Will he?
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The public discourse on the farm laws, even in government-friendly print & television channels, has demonstrated the inability of the laws’ defenders to advance arguments that convince the alert citizen.
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State terrorism has not been effective in reducing, let alone eliminating, terrorism.
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