In 2022, the US prepared for an imminent Russian nuclear attack on Ukraine. "We have a direct threat from the use of a nuclear weapon," Joe Biden acknowledged in a private conversation.
That crisis, equivalent to that of the missiles in Cuba, was hidden from public opinion. Since then, the battlefield advantage has changed dramatically with October 2022 now looking like the high point of Ukraine's military performance in the past two years. However, Putin has now launched a new series of nuclear threats against the West.