Russia’s Nuclear Blackmail: Thinking through the Unthinkable

No American — not the hawks nor the doves; not the NatCons nor the Neocons nor the Neoliberal interventionists — wants to get into a nuclear exchange with Russia over Ukraine.

That shouldn’t need to be said. Unfortunately, the state of our political discourse and the understandable alarm that the events in Eastern Europe have elicited call for this simple truth to be stated.