What Would Push the West and Russia to Nuclear War?

or me,” quipped Oleksii Reznikov, Ukraine’s defence minister, “The word ‘impossible’ means ‘possible in the future’.” With good reason. Javelin anti-tank missiles, forbidden by America when Russia took the first chunks of Ukraine in 2014, came in a trickle from 2017 and then a flood when Russia invaded again in February. Stinger anti-aircraft weapons, similarly refused, arrived in March. And the long-awaited himars rocket launchers have been taking out command posts and weapons dumps far behind Russia’s frontlines since June. f-16 fighter jets may come one day.