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#NATO. Nukes are useless as strategic or tactical weapons. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute.

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🗓️ 18 October 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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#NATO. Nukes are useless as strategic or tactical weapons. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute.

1810 Brussels

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This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Bachelor

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I welcome my colleague Anatole Leaven of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

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looking at Ukraine conflict here as we approach winter in Ukraine and a necessary slowdown of frontline activity but

0:57.0

there's much to speak of when it comes to Europe because of NATO and NATO's

1:02.4

anxiety about remarks made by Vladimir Putin

1:05.8

over these years of conflict in Ukraine.

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Anatole a very good evening to you. What is steadfast noon and how does it answer the war in Ukraine if it does

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good evening to you. Hello John well I mean frankly steadfast noon is not

1:21.2

anything to get particularly excited about.

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NATO has, since time a memorial, had an annual drill of responding to a potential nuclear attack.

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I mean it went down and became largely symbolic for many years after the end of the Cold War, but it never went away.

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Because of course that's what a military defensive alliance has to do. Of course you have to prepare for a nuclear attack.

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And obviously, given the tensions with Russia over Ukraine and the Ukraine war you you have to do that but

2:07.5

it's not either you, it won't have any particular effect on the Russians because the calculations about nuclear war have always been there.

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