Professor Sergei Karaganov has written a paper – How to Win a World War – that advocates a limited nuclear strike on an adversary by Russia, as the means of preventing a World War.
On the face of it, this may seem to be an oxymoron – a nuclear strike precisely done to prevent World War. A number of western commentators have reacted with unalloyed hostility, with Professor Karaganov being presented as a political outlier, advocating fringe policies that could open Pandora’s box to wider nuclear conflict.
Is it bluff or a revolutionary re-think of Russia’s defence strategy?
Yet, the West should take Professor Karaganov’s thesis very seriously for two reasons: Firstly, because it has substance, touching on the psyche underlying our era, together with the toxic societal contradictions it has birthed; and more directly, because his paper, and the many interviews arising from it, have produced a significant shift in Russian political and security thinking.
How then can this not be a matter for serious reflection, especially by Europeans whom it may affect directly?
At its core, is a very obvious proposition: Russia, after having been attacked by Germany and almost all of Europe had, with great effort, from the mid-1950s created a nuclear …read more
Source:: Ron Paul Institute