NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel came under fire Monday after posting a message on his account that seemed to suggest that the U.S. had not yet attacked Russia for invading Ukraine. It was noted Monday that a massive Russian convoy was in a position to be destroyed by the U.S. or NATO and that direct involvement against Russia would risk a nuclear war. He asked if the West would watch in silence as it rolls. Perhaps the biggest risk-calculation/moral dilemma of the war so far. A massive Russian convoy is abt 30 miles from Kyiv. The US/NATO could likely destroy it. But that would be direct involvement against Russia and risk, everything. Does the West watch in silence as it rolls? — Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) February 28, 2022 The U.S. can't attack Russia because Congress hasn't declared war. A direct attack on Russian forces by either the U.S. or NATO would be an act of war and increase the risk of nuclear warfare. Many people on the social networking site were surprised that Engel seemed almost eager to get his war on. This is an NBC News US senior correspondent near-demanding that nuclear powers enter a hot war. It is always incredible to witness how so many American reporters become champions for US militarism, without a shred of concern for the human life they purport to care about. https://t.co/VBqHtOY5Sd — Sana Saeed (@SanaSaeed) February 28, 2022 This is NBC's chief foreign policy correspondent, advocating for, uh, nuclear war. How is this journalism? This is utter madness. https://t.co/RE7Mra11m1 — Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) February 28, 2022 A major network's chief corresp is asking thisSince USSR got nukes in 1950s, US policy under *every* prez has been not to fight USSR/RUS directly *except* (a) w/in NATO or (b) Western hemis—Cuban Missile Crisis “Watch in silence” = Hungary 1956, Czech 1968, Berlin many times https://t.co/6fUocApeTqHuffPost
James Fallows posted on February 28, 2022.
The way you tweet about whether the US and NATO should engage in a full-on war against a nuclear-armed super power is shockingly glib. It's not as simple as "watch in silence as it rolls" or not. The stakes are risking nuclear annihilation.
— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) February 28, 2022
1) No one is watching in silence, the West has done almost everything Ukraine has asked of it, and 2) you're asking for world war and nuclear standoff. Hopefully no one at US/NATO is taking that even remotely seriously. https://t.co/H652HRZ8KE
— Markos Moulitsas (@markos) February 28, 2022
Richard Engel: So is Biden gonna start WW3 or what here?
Nice framing. False binary. Putin couldn't script it better. Very dramatic. https://t.co/S3J5X82Hkn
— Grant Stern is boosted! (@grantstern) February 28, 2022
A long time ago I wrote something arguing that the Kantian idea of "fiat justicia, ruat caelum" wasn't entirely coherent when it comes to literally world-ending choices because the moral project of improving the world requires that there be a world left to improve https://t.co/c9erRywXtg
— Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic) February 28, 2022
Remember that in Richard Engel's book "War Journal" he said that before the invasion of Iraq he knew it "was a land where careers were going to be made" and that being there for war was his "big break" https://t.co/ik5UA8sBvB
— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) February 28, 2022
Some people offered advice to Engel in hopes he would change his mind.
i dunno if i was a chief foreign correspondent i would not glibly wonder why one nuclear power isn't carpet bombing another nuclear power's forces https://t.co/O1dkxPUfDw
— Edward Ongweso Jr (@bigblackjacobin) February 28, 2022
Pro tip: do not tweet questions like this until you've given at least, oh, I don't know, a whole thirty seconds of thought to steps two, three, and four of your decision tree. https://t.co/HLnfV7p2wd
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) February 28, 2022
The Huffington Post reached out to Engel for comment, but no one responded immediately.
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