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How Trump's Ukraine Plan Makes Nuclear War More Likely - Paul Warburg
Trump's Ukraine peace plan is very publicly based on the risk of nuclear war with Russia. Trump sees Russia's nukes as an existential threat, to be avoided at all costs. But are these concerns correctly placed?
Russia has threatened to use nukes over 40 times since they invaded Ukraine, with many famous "nuclear red lines." But with every red line crossed, the risk of Russia's nukes looks dubious at best. However, by playing into this hand, we actually DO create a more risky nuclear world - in a way that might be at first unintuitive.
In this video I weave together the war in Ukraine with the Iran nuclear deal, the odds of Ukraine getting its own nukes, and Ukraine's inclusion in NATO to show a chilling potential future if the world does not wake up soon.