How the US plays the nuclear wild card to extract maximum concessions

Filed by Elara Myst

 By Miguel Santos GarcíaGlobal Research, August 18, 2026 The contemporary global strategic landscape is increasingly defined by a deliberate perception cultivated by the United States, one that casts it as a state fundamentally unmoored from the established tenets of Mutually Assured Destruction, and by extension, as a power for whom traditional nuclear fears are anachronistic constraints rather than guiding principles.This is not merely a failure of strategic communication or a ...