The Bible warns us that in the last day’s unprecedented perilous times shall come (2 Timothy 3:1). We undoubtedly find ourselves living in those Biblically predicted dangerous days today. One of the many incontrovertible proofs of it is the ongoing war in Ukraine. 

On Tuesday, in response to Joe Biden’s authorization of Ukraine’s use of American supplied long-range missiles to strike deep into Russia, Vladimir Putin once again lowered the Kremlin’s threshold for its use of nuclear weapons. This latest lowering of Russia’s nuclear threshold green lights a nuclear strike against any nation, supported by a nuclear power, which attacks Russia with conventional weapons. In other words, Putin has just granted himself permission to wage nuclear war against Ukraine for attacking Russia with conventional long-range missiles supplied by the U.S. 

On the heels of this saber rattling by Putin, Russia launched an experimental intermediate-range ballistic missile on the Ukrainian city of  Dnipro. The missile, which was at first mistaken for a hypersonic intercontinental ballistic missile, which conventionally carries multiple nuclear warheads at extremely high speeds, marked not only an escalation of the war in Ukraine, but the first time such a weapon has ever been used in any war. According to Putin, this new Russian missile cannot be intercepted by current air defense and missile defense systems. 

In his address to the nation, following his use of Ukraine as a testing ground for a new lethal missile, Vladimir Putin declared to the Russian people that the war in Ukraine was going “global” and may soon require the Kremlin to launch strikes on western nations, such as America and Great Britain, for supplying weapons to Ukraine to use against Russia. At the same time Putin was calling the war in Ukraine a global conflict, Valery Zaluzhny, the former head of the Ukrainian military, declared: “I believe that in 2024 we can absolutely believe that the Third World War has begun.” 

With NATO nations supplying Ukraine with weapons, and with Russia being helped by China, provided with weapons from Iran, and given 11,000 troops from North Korea, how can anyone deny that the war in Ukraine has become a global conflict that has us all at the threshold of World War III? Furthermore, what makes this predicament even more precarious and perilous is the disconcerting fact that a cognitively impaired octogenarian, who appears willing to escalate the war in Ukraine, in order to strap his successor with a mushrooming global conflict, is currently in charge of our nuclear codes. Let’s all hope Biden doesn’t end his presidency with a bang, the biggest of all time and one that the world will never get over.

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