Nina Khrushcheva, the great-granddaughter of the Soviet leader in the 1962 standoff with the U.S., does not think Vladimir Putin will back down.
, thought to be the closest the Cold War superpowers came to nuclear war, in an interview in which he said that the chance of World War Three was"very significant." He criticized the West's arming of Kyiv's forces as adding"fuel to the fire."Radio 4's Today program that the 13-day stand-off six decades ago was a"war of words more than it was a war of actions" and that her great-grandfather was responding to the presence of U.S. missiles in Europe.
She said on Saturday that what saved the world was that whatever differences Khrushchev and Kennedy had about each other's ideology,"when the threat appeared of a potential conflict of any kind, they immediately backed off and it took 13 days to back off." "We are closer to war issues, nuclear or any other way, because I don't see today any side, and the Russian side particularly, backing off and that's what scares me the most."
Khrushcheva, a professor of international affairs at The New School in New York, said that"it was clear" when Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24 that it was a"proxy war" in which Ukraine was"to some degree a pawn" in negotiations between the U.S. , NATO and Moscow.
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