No, World War III is not a good idea

The US President should resist pressure for direct NATO involvement in the war in Ukraine

The same national security elites who pushed the United States into war in Iraq and Afghanistan are now trying to do the same with Russia and the Ukraine. 

In the process, they are urging the sort of insane escalations – no fly zones, providing fighter jets to Ukraine -- that, in August 1914, turned a minor act of terrorism in the Balkans into a global c…