What We’re Watching

Russian-American podcaster Lex Fridman hosts John Mearsheimer, a renowned international relations scholar from the University of Chicago, for an in-depth discussion on the likelihood of Russia deliberately initiating a nuclear strike, and the unpredictable escalation dynamics in a world governed by mutually assured destruction.

The North Korea Nuclear Update team finds a nuclear strike by Putin unlikely, as it offers no strategic benefit and risks catastrophic escalation. His nuclear rhetoric aims to deter intervention by major powers. A strike on Kyiv would cause immediate devastation and severe global fallout.