Ukraine War, October 5, 2022: Ukrainian gains and nuclear and WMD scenarios

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Dispatches

1) Hamish de Bretton-Gordon,”It is time to call Putin’s bluff; The West must make it clear that any use of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons is a red line issue,” The Telegraph, October 4, 2022 (3:34 pm);

2) Michael Dobbs, “On the Threat of Nuclear War, Putin Is Escalating at Every Critical Point,” New York Times, October 5, 2022;

Mr. Dobbs is a former foreign correspondent who covered the collapse of communism and the author of “One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War.”

Analysis

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