“We’re still in the atomic age,” Flynn says. Would World War III, if it happens, inevitably involve nuclear weapons? It’s more than possible, says Stephen Flynn, founding director of the Global Resilience Institute at Northeastern. “A no-fly zone is not a possibility at all, because Russia would interpret that as a clear act of war,” Cross says. But President Joe Biden and other allied officials have rejected the idea, citing the risks of a military confrontation between the West and Russia that could quickly escalate into something worse. and its allies to implement a no-fly zone in Ukraine to prohibit Russian planes from flying over Ukrainian territory. The unfortunate byproduct of that is civilian deaths.”įor days, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called on the U.S. So sitting back more and targeting these cities from afar with missiles allows you to spread destruction faster. “They know that advancing by ground into these Ukrainian cities would be difficult to win without sustaining a lot of casualties. “Part of Russian strategy now is to attack Ukrainian civilians,” Cross says. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Stephen Flynn, founding director of the Global Resilience Institute at Northeastern. Russian forces also struck a theater in Mariupol where civilians were taking shelter, then a shopping mall in Kyiv that killed eight people. The first indication of that was a Russian airstrike that hit a maternity hospital in the southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol in recent days.
intelligence has indicated that Putin is determined to succeed, doubling down on tactics that have increasingly led to civilian deaths. “But what we’ve seen, especially since the invasion, is China trying to distance itself from Russia, offering itself up as a moderator and trying to find a peaceful solution,” Cross says.ĭespite Russian setbacks in Ukraine, U.S. What would a world war mean for those superpowers not currently tangled up in the conflict? In the case of China, the world’s second largest superpower, it’s unclear-even though the Chinese Communist Party has been critical of the U.S.’s role in the conflict, suggesting that NATO encroachment has provoked Russia, Cross says. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University Brooke Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Northeastern.
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