By Ron Unz
The Unz Review
October 13, 2026
Sleepwalking into a NATO War with Russia
The Russian war against Ukraine is now halfway through its fifth year, rapidly approaching the length of World War II. The European NATO countries have become more and more heavily drawn into that conflict, which many observers believe has already cost more than a million lives.
Although the NATO leaders had initially been quite cautious about fighting a proxy war against nuclear-armed Russia on Russia's own border, lack of any significant Russian pushback has dangerously swollen their confidence, and many red-lines once assumed to exist have already long since been crossed.