The Chance of Nuclear War Isn’t Increasing

Begin with impromptu remarks over Ukraine that our president made at a Democratic Party fundraiser:

Think about it. We have not faced the promise of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis. We’ve got a guy I know fairly well. His name is Vladimir Putin. I spent a fair amount of time with him. He is not joking when he talks about tactical and nuclear weapons, or biological or chemical weapons, because his military is, you might say, significantly underperforming. And it is part of the Russian doctrine that they will not. If the Mothe …