The military exercises, which also include land-based missile systems, come just two days after Putin put the nation's nuclear forces on "special alert."
If the war can be stopped, new efforts will be needed to ensure that Europe seeks security not in a new arms race, but in a new effort to build the structures of peace.
The best way to help the people of Ukraine is to ignore the war promoters and choose the path of negotiation—for their sake and, with nuclear missiles on both sides of the Atlantic, for ours.
Turns out this is about more than the GOP just embracing policies that lead to disease and death—those same policies also win elections while making their morbidly rich campaign donors even richer.
