Too many influential voices are contemplating how to 'win' a nuclear war.
By J.B. Shurk
American Thinker
February 21, 2026
With all eyes on the U.S. military buildup around Iran right now, the Russia-Ukraine War has been temporarily upstaged. It will not play second fiddle for long. The recent trilateral talks in Geneva involving the Russian Federation, Ukraine, and the United States have been unable to resolve a principal issue of disagreement: Ukraine's martial-law-president Volodymyr Zelenskyy's refusal to cede any land and Russia's insistence that the Donbas region - specifically the four eastern territories that have already held a referendum in support of becoming part of the Russian Federation - be acknowledged as sovereign Russian territory.