{"id":4334,"date":"2015-01-10T09:31:36","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T14:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4334"},"modified":"2015-01-10T09:31:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T14:31:36","slug":"top-russian-american-and-polish-leaders-warn-that-continued-fighting-in-ukraine-could-lead-to-nuclear-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4334","title":{"rendered":"Top Russian, American and Polish Leaders Warn that Continued Fighting In Ukraine Could Lead to Nuclear War"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/01\/top-russian-american-polish-leaders-warn-continued-fighting-ukraine-lead-nuclear-war.html\" target=\"_blank\">Top Russian, American and Polish Leaders Warn that Continued Fighting In Ukraine Could Lead to Nuclear War<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>The Stakes Are Too High\u00a0<em>Not<\/em>\u00a0to Negotiate Peace<\/h3>\n<p>Former Soviet leader and Nobel prize winner Mikhail Gorbachev\u00a0<a title=\"warned\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/01\/09\/us-ukraine-crisis-gorbachev-germany-idUSKBN0KI1US20150109\" target=\"_blank\">warned<\/a>\u00a0today that the battle in Ukraine could result in a nuclear war:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cA war of this kind would unavoidably lead to a nuclear war,\u201d the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize winner told Der Spiegel news magazine, according to excerpts released on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe won\u2019t survive the coming years if someone loses their nerve in this overheated situation,\u201d added Gorbachev, 83. \u201cThis is not something I\u2019m saying thoughtlessly. I am extremely concerned.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of America\u2019s top experts on Russia \u2013 Steven Cohen \u2013\u00a0<a title=\"has warned\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/09\/top-russia-expert-ukraine-joins-nato-will-cause-nuclear-war.html\">has warned<\/a>\u00a0that failure to negotiate a peace treaty in Ukraine could lead to nuclear war.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Steven Starr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.psr.org\/about\/experts-speakers\/steven-starr.html\" target=\"_blank\">Steven Starr<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 a nuclear arms expert and senior scientist for Physicians for Social Responsibility \u2013<a title=\"warns\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/the-russian-aggression-prevention-act-rapa-a-direct-path-to-nuclear-war-with-russia\/5397171\" target=\"_blank\">warns<\/a>\u00a0that proposed U.S. legislation would be a direct path towards nuclear war with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Former Polish president \u2013 and famed anti-communist activist \u2013 Lech Walesa\u00a0<a title=\" also warned\" href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/arming-ukraine-could-lead-nuclear-war-lech-walesa-183453862.html\" target=\"_blank\">also warned<\/a>\u00a0that the U.S. and Nato\u2019s arming of Ukraine could lead to a nuclear war.<\/p>\n<p>Leading American political activist Noam Chomsky\u00a0<a title=\"agrees\" href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/203055-us-russia-war-chomsky\/\" target=\"_blank\">agrees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Russian, American and Polish Leaders Warn that Continued Fighting In Ukraine Could Lead to Nuclear War The Stakes Are Too High\u00a0Not\u00a0to Negotiate Peace Former Soviet leader and Nobel prize winner Mikhail Gorbachev\u00a0warned\u00a0today that the battle in Ukraine could result in a nuclear war: \u201cA war of this kind would unavoidably lead to a nuclear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2534,1880,694,2556,821,834,862,965,891],"class_list":["post-4334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-mikhail-gorbachev","tag-noam-chomsky","tag-russia","tag-steven-cohen","tag-ukraine","tag-us","tag-war","tag-west","tag-world-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4335,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334\/revisions\/4335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}