Commentary
Seventy-six years ago, Sir Winston Churchill gave his famous “Iron Curtain” speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, warning of Communist Russia’s westward expansion and the need for a united Western response under America’s leadership.
At that time, President Harry Truman had the strategic advantage of the atom bomb but after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he had no appetite to use one again. Soon, Russia obtained its own weapons of mass destruction and from then on, direct conflict between the world’s superpowers became unthinkable.
That is until the Biden administration convinced itself that, through Ukraine, it had found a way out of the Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) impasse to get at Russia.
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