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- An ex-CIA analyst says Russia might risk nuclear war with NATO to prevail in their war with Ukraine.
- Peter Schroeder says Putin has been "remarkably consistent" about using nuclear weapons on NATO.
- Putin said recently that Russia had no interest in fighting NATO forces.
An ex-CIA analyst says the US might be underestimating the possibility of nuclear war between Russia and NATO.
"That is a mistake. US officials have it backward," Peter Schroeder wrote in an article for Foreign Affairs published on Wednesday.