Joseph Gerson

Ukrainian and Russian lives will continue to be shattered until either a ceasefire or completion of successful negotiations are announced.

There is no sign yet of Chinese coordination with Moscow over Ukraine or preparations for an invasion of Taiwan.

Another world, at least another, more peaceful and just Europe—with very reasonable agreements for Russian security—is possible.

This is a moment to be pressing President Biden and those around him to embrace a no first strike doctrine, for Congress to defund the land-based ICBMs and other nuclear first strike weapons, to initiate negotiation of an Asia-Pacific Freeze to halt the suicidal arms race.

We face a classical Thucydides Trap between rising and declining powers that too many times in history has climaxed in catastrophic wars. But now the stakes are existential.

Tragically, despite widespread high hopes for change, in the existential realm of potentially omnicidal nuclear war preparations, the Biden administration has signaled more continuity than change.

First Donald Trump and now Joe Biden have been playing with fire when it comes to policy with China.

A new and global Cold War with China is among the last things that humanity needs.