Aug. 13, 2024 (EIRNS)—The world today stands at the cusp of direct NATO military involvement in a ground, sea, and air war against Russia—the greatest nuclear superpower on the planet. We have gone well beyond the point of utopian, Dr. Strangelove-style threats from think tanks such as the U.K.’s RUSI and Chatham House and the U.S.’s Atlantic Council and Council on Foreign Relations, and the use of NATO-financed and -armed surrogates such as Ukraine. We are now staring at the prospect of imminent direct engagement between NATO and Russian forces in more than one theater of war.