By Eric Zuesse
Eric's Substack
August 6, 2026
The war in Ukraine is, but in reverse, actually the same situation that America's President JFK had faced with regard to the Soviet Union in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, when the U.S. would have invaded Cuba if Khrushchev wouldn't agree to a mutually acceptable settlement - which he did, and so WW3 was averted, on that occasion. But whereas Khrushchev was reasonable; Obama, Biden, and Trump, are not; and, so, the world again stands at the brink of a WW3, but this time because of a truly evil head-of-state (Obama, then Biden, and now Trump - in other words, it is the United States Government ITSELF), who might even be willing to go beyond that brink - into WW3 itself - in order to become able to achieve world-conquest (which had been Hitler's goal to achieve, but which was NOT the goal of EITHER Khrushchev or Kennedy, but IS the current U.S.