Nuclear war unlikely despite Russia’s threats, says military strategy guru Edward Luttwak
He stressed: "Nuclear weapons were born too powerful to be useful."
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‘We know mum’s fine because we’ve got her a robot’
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Ukraine crisis raises prospect of more states going nuclear: veteran Singapore diplomat
“Nuclear weapons do not prevent conventional clashes or wars, but keep a lid on them”, former top diplomat Bilahari Kausikan said in the interview.
‘Everybody wants to be segregated’: Internal divisions in US hardening, warns Yale’s Prof Amy Chua
Citing anti-immigration, anti-China and anti-Muslim sentiment, she described the US currently as "hunkering down, and in a kind of very open way".
The US, divided within, needs to reinvent itself: Harvard’s Graham Allison
While the US is in dire straits, it has a magical capacity to always rise from the ashes and reinvent itself, says Harvard Professor Graham Allison.
How will the tussle between 3 ancient civilisations shape the future: Historian Wang Gungwu
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US warns Solomon Islands over China agreement
The deal has alarmed the US and its allies which are concerned that the Chinese could gain a military foothold in the South Pacific.
Ukraine crisis: US bans Russian oil imports as fears of energy war grow
Western-led sanctions against Moscow after the invasion of Ukraine have so far spared Russian oil and gas.