The invasion of Syria could lead to nuclear war

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Pavel Felgenhauer - a leading Russian military analyst - also believes that a nuclear war is "Very likely" to arise from Russia's skirmishes with Turkey in Syria.

Last December, U.S. Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard - a Member of the House Armed Services Committee, Iraq war veteran, and Major in the Hawaii Army National Guard - warned that U.S. policy in Syria could lead to a nuclear war.

American security expert Bruce Blair - a former nuclear-missile launch officer - notes that Turkey's downing of the Russian warplane at the Syrian-Turkish border "Fits a pattern of brinkmanship and inadvertence that is raising tensions and distrust between Russia and US-led NATO," and that "This escalation could morph by design or inadvertence into a nuclear threat."

Russia expert Stephen Cohen agrees that the risks of nuclear war are much higher than people know, telling the Commonwealth Club last year that the threat of nuclear war with Russia is now greater than it was with the Soviets.

Former U.S. Secretary of Defense William Perry agrees that the risk of nuclear war is higher than during the Soviet era.

Postscript: Top Russian, American and Polish experts also warn that continued fighting in Ukraine could lead to nuclear war.

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