Putin’s War: Total Annihilation & the Future of Nuclear Deterrence

Following World War II, Europe was devastated. Most major cities were burned to the ground including London, Warsaw, Berlin, Munich, Dresden, Kyiv, and St. Petersburg. Europe was leveled to the ground.

In the Soviet Union, 25 million people were left homeless. A further 70,000 villages, 32,000 factories, and 1,700 towns were destroyed during the duration of the War.

Approximately thirty-six and a half million Europeans died between the years 1939 and 1945, excluding estimates that include those who died from natural causes. Strikingly, 19 million of these deaths were noncombatants.

No one wanted anything like that to happen again and the liberal order that came following World War II, did everything it could to prevent it.

After the disturbing close calls to nuclear annihilation during the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall, most in the Global North believed that peace was now inevitable.

Then Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24 2022 and changed everything.

“I advocate world government because I am convinced that there is no other possible way of eliminating the most terrible danger in which man has ever found himself. The objective of avoiding total destruction must have priority over any…