Did Russia Come Close to Using a Nuclear Device in 2022?
CNN reporter Jim Sciutto on the return of great-power conflict.
Will historians remember 2024 as another 1939? According to CNN’s Jim Sciutto, there are troubling parallels between the state of the world today and the years preceding World War II. In both instances a revanchist leader attempted to capture another country’s territory, with many around the world hoping it would be the last such attempt. There are also significant differences between then and now, of course, but Sciutto hopes to raise an alarm in his new book, The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War, by speaking with a range of U.S. and European leaders to assess the risks of a new world war.
Ravi Agrawal is the editor in chief of Foreign Policy. Twitter: @RaviReports
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