www.zerohedge.com BY TYLER DURDEN
As Russia began amassing troops near the Ukrainian border, five of the world’s nuclear powers pledged not to use nukes in the event of a global war.
“We believe strongly that the further spread of such weapons must be prevented,” reads a ‘rare’ joint statement by China, France, Russia, the UK and US, seemingly out of left field.
“A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought,” the statement continues – echoing a 1985 joint statement from former US President Ronald Reagan and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev following a summit in Geneva amid the cold war.
