PROPAGANDA WAR GAMES WITH RUSSIA IS MADNESS

The world stage is no place for any personal grudges with Vladimir Putin to be settled. In a cunningly passive manner, that's what certain presidents and prime ministers across the world are now engaging in. 

Russia has by the far the biggest stockpile of cold war era nuclear weapons, far surpassing even the United States. 

Whatever Putin is and whatever he and Russia is guilty of in terms of the war with Ukraine, intentionally inciting a new conflict with Russia, which almost certainly will result in a catastrophic retaliation from Putin with the aid of nuclear weapons, is simply not an option. Any world leader who thinks otherwise should not be in power.

The aim of any responsible president or prime minister, given the spectre of a war with Russia turning nuclear and global, should be to manage Putin, keep him and Russia at bay. Not to throw petrol on a fire that will be the catalyst for igniting WW3.