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HIGH STAKES The ineff ectiveness of Vladimir Putin’s military, in the face of superior weapons supplied by the West, has limited options available to the volatile Russian president and raised chances he might use nuclear weapons to save face. Meanwhile, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, with top Kyiv of icials, has stepped up his campaign to get Ukraine admitted to NATO — a move which Moscow sees as a direct threat to its security.


Putin’s Nuclear War


Is a Real Threat “We’re in graver danger today than at any time in my lifetime,” says Newt Gingrich.


T BY NEWT GINGRICH


he potential that vladi- mir Putin could use nuclear weapons in Ukraine must be taken extremely seriously.


If things go wrong, we will look


back upon this period as a parallel to early July 1914. At that time, European civilization


seemed safe, prosperous, and on a path of improvement.


10 NEWSMAX | NOVEMBER 2022 A few short weeks later, the con-


vulsion of World War I began. In its aftermath, European civilization was shattered, and the Russian, Austro- Hungarian, German, and Ottoman empires were gone. The loss of life in World War I was


so great that British and French soci- eties never recovered their elan and confi dence. The devastation was so great in


Russia that the stage was set for the Bolshevik Revolution and the 74-year dictatorship of communism. It echoes to this day in Mr. Putin’s Russia. It is sometimes hard, almost impos-


sible, in a peaceful, prosperous envi- ronment to imagine the savagery and pain of a catastrophic war. Every American who is in doubt about how serious the potential of nuclear war is should read Tomorrow! by Philip Wylie. First published in 1954, it is the


story of the human cost of a nuclear weapon going off in a Midwestern American city. It is vivid and hor- rifying. I fi rst read Wylie’s extraordinary


novel when my dad was stationed at Fort Riley. It was easy to imagine that Wylie was describing the death of Kansas City, 132 miles to our east.


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