Let’s Stop Rehashing the Narrative of a Third World War

The Control and the Power of Deterrence

St Michael’s Church at night, Kyiv, May 26, 2023. Photo: Nicolas Tenzer

Russian narratives stoking the specter of a Third World War are a classic Kremlin rhetorical technique. It began to be practiced long before the all-out attack on Ukraine on February 24, 2022. It has been constantly used ever since by Putin’s henchmen and propagandists on Russian tel…