JRL NEWSWATCH: “Exclusive: As Ukraine Gets Closer to Victory, Nuclear War Gets Closer Too” – Newsweek
“Russia’s attacks on a dozen Ukrainian cities … in what Moscow calls retaliation for the sabotage of the Kerch Bridge … bring the world ever closer to nuclear war, four U.S. government and military sources told Newsweek. The officials, all working on nuclear-weapons issues, said … not enough is being done to avoid nuclear escalation at a time that battlefield developments are repeatedly exposing the weakness of … Putin’s conventional forces and leaving him with dwindling alternative[s] …. ‘Russia is losing the war in every way,’ [said] a senior [DIA] officer …. ‘But we can’t celebrate Ukrainian victory, not yet. The very conditions that Putin has told us might justify nuclear escalation are emerging. That includes threats to Russia’s territorial integrity and the very survival of the state.’ …”