Russian troops continue to encircle capital Kyiv, while violating international laws, yet it is quite evident that Ukraine is not alone, as it has garnered tremendous support from several western nations which is topped by the United States of America.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been reaching out to several countries, urging them to provide military aid. He even turned down the offer by the US government to evacuate Kyiv and instead asked America to provide military support to Ukraine.
“The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride,” he said as reported by AP.
Zelensky had spoken with US president Biden regarding military aid and sanctions.
He appealed the same to all NATO countries and the world at large. As a result, many countries have offered both military and other support to Ukraine. This includes more than two dozen nations, including Canada, Netherlands, UK, US, and some more European countries, that have come out to support Ukraine with weapons, medical supplies, and other military aid.
US – Russia Relations
Russia and the United States maintain globally significant and strategic foreign-relations ties and both nations have shared interests in nuclear safety and security, nonproliferation, counterterrorism, and space exploration.
The relationship was generally warm under the rule of Russian President Boris Yeltsin (1991–99) until the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in the spring of 1999 and has since deteriorated significantly.
Following Vladimir Putin regaining control of the Russian government in 2012, relations between the two countries significantly cooled over Russia’s annexation of Crimea and Russian military intervention in Ukraine. The deterioration continued with the Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War and over Russia’s interference in the 2016 and 2020 US elections.
Mutual sanctions imposed since 2014 were significantly expanded by the US and its allies following the invasion, including several state-owned banks, oligarchs, and Putin himself.
With the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, relations reached their lowest point since the Cold War.
This brings in the probability of World War III which can magnify into Nuclear War.
What Will Happen If The US And Russia Go For Nuclear War?
If the US, and Russia choose their current nuclear arsenals, it wouldn’t be wrong to say that the world will end as that would burn every major city and industrial area in each country, and it will several decades for recovery with perpetual radiations in certain the sites of attack.
Professor, Alan Roebuck, a climatologist and distinguished professor from the department of environmental sciences at Rutgers University, answered this question.
Within a week of the nuclear war, one hundred fifty million tons of black smoke would enter the atmosphere. It would rise into the stratosphere, covering the earth and lasting for years. The black smoke will absorb sunlight, preventing it from reaching the surface two weeks after the war. As the smoke spreads around the world, it will get dark and cold at the surface.
The sunlight that has absorbed the smoke in the upper atmosphere will destroy the ozone layer. This will cause dangerous ultraviolet irradiation, to reach the surface. Even though some of it will be absorbed by the smoke, much more will get to the surface. Radiation destroys DNA, the building blocks of life, which will lead to increased cases of cancer.
After two months, temperatures over all continental land regions will plunge low to freezing point, and now we will have a nuclear winter.
Agriculture will grind to a halt and will not be possible for several years. After every four months, famine will begin as existing stocks of food run out.
After two years almost all people on earth will die except a few on coastlines who may survive as fish gatherers. But they have to deal with the cold dark conditions and the enhanced UV radiation.
The number of survivors will be very low and most will be in the southern hemisphere, far from the bombs and surrounded by a warm ocean.
Temperatures will slowly begin to rise but it will take several decades for nature to bloom and replenish.
This is exactly why we can’t afford another World War, let alone Nuclear war.