The official said the war in Ukraine was far more dangerous than anything Europe has seen since the end of World War II, including the Balkan wars of the 1990s. allies said analysts in Washington had reached a terrifying conclusion: “Russia is ready to use a thermonuclear bomb in Ukraine,” the official said. One European official privy to intelligence briefings provided to U.S. “But let me be clear: Our forces are not engaged and will not engage in the conflict with Russian forces in Ukraine. Our forces are not going to Europe to fight Ukraine but to defend our NATO allies in the event that Putin decides to keep moving west.” “We’ll continue to aid the Ukrainian people as they defend their country and help ease their suffering,” he said. In his State of the Union speech this week, Biden described the war as Ukraine’s fight and said Washington would do what it could to help. President Joe Biden has been adamant about American forces not getting involved in the fighting. An Estonian cargo ship sunk off the coast of Odesa, apparently after hitting a mine. Already, on Wednesday Russian planes violated Swedish air space multiple times. The shelling and a fire at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in the early hours of Friday morning provided yet another frightening example of the type of emergency scenario that could ensnare a broader international coalition in Putin’s war: to urgently prevent a global catastrophe.īut other more mundane scenarios abound. “Anything that we do that results in killing Russians puts us into World War III.” “The enforcement of a no-fly zone means killing Russians,” the analyst said. “Or the outcry against the crimes against humanity is so strong that we feel compelled to take what we think is a limited and judicious action,” the analyst said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation. That is not impossible and then it very quickly escalates.
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“One is a mistake,” said a Washington-based analyst whose work is partly financed by the U.S. And yet, senior Western government officials, diplomats and military analysts acknowledge that there is now a grave danger that the United States and other NATO allies could be drawn into the war - at virtually any moment, as the result of any number of scenarios.