Björn Fagerstedt (@bjornfagerstedt.bsky.social)

Dr. Strangelove or: How the West taught Putin to stop worrying and love his bombs In Netflix's House of Dynamite, a ballistic missile hurtles toward the United States, the nightmare scenario that keeps defense planners awake at night. Yet the West's Russia policies, over the past decade, have done more to increase the odds of such a catastrophe than prevent it. Washington's unwitting effort to teach Moscow that nuclear threats work and aggression pays has culminated in a 28-point dictator’s wishlist, bizarrely presented as a "peace plan." The United States, the world’s most https://kyivindependent.com/dr-strangelove-or-how-the-west-taught-putin-to-stop-worrying-and-love-his-bombs/