It is common knowledge that Zelensky’s Ukraine would be sixty minutes away from a complete surrender if it were not sustained by NATO’s financial, logistical, military, and ideological support. Nor is it a secret that NATO and its most bellicose members are urging everyone in Europe to prepare for war.

But what kind of war? With what types of missiles? Receiving little coverage in the mainstream media—and for good reason—recent remarks by Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan call for a bit more realism. The situation, he told the Turkish government news agency Anadolu, “is dangerous. Many scenarios previously considered impossible have ultimately become reality. The possibility of an extreme scenario cannot be ruled out.”

Need we remind readers that Russia’s nuclear doctrine, updated and formalized in November 2024, stipulates the use of nuclear weapons not only in response to a nuclear attack but also in the event of any other existential threat? Minister Fidan feels all the more justified, the news agency reports, in calling on “the international community to intervene at all costs and put an end to the war, as it is expanding both geographically and in terms of its objectives and methods.”

Realism—but even more so, reason—dictates this, indeed.