Reaching out
Zelenskiy courts further support
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No knockout
Tightening of sanctions is a sign of failure
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IN THE HORRIFIC SHADOW OF A PAST NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST, the leaders of the G7 group of wealthiest nations met in Hiroshima in Japan last weekend to discuss war: how to prosecute one in Ukraine and how to prevent one with China.
Jake Sullivan, the US national security adviser, once described the G7 as the coordinating committee of the free world, and never has there been such a need for such coordination. It was only in October that Joe Biden warned that the risk of a nuclear Armageddon was at its highest in 60 years.
The chance of Vladimir Putin resorting to nuclear weapons appears to
