SUBSCRIBE to EIR Daily Alert Service Schiller Institute To Address Worsening U.S.-Russian Relations—Reverse Them in a New Paradigm, or Face Nuclear War Feb. 8 , 2021 (EIRNS)—The astonishing utterance from the Commander of the U.S. Strategic Command Adm. Charles Richard that “The U.S. military must shift its principal assumption from ‘nuclear employment is not possible’ to ‘nuclear employment is a very real possibility,’ ” so soon after President Biden’s takeover, tells us that something potentially much more dangerous lies below the worsening of U.S.-Russia relations. “There is a real possibility,” Admiral Richard wrote in the February U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, “that a regional crisis with Russia or China could escalate quickly to a conflict involving nuclear weapons.”