Five reasons why Biden must move to de-escalate the Russia-Ukraine war now

One analyst says the US and Russia have entered a high risk period of of the ongoing war in Ukraine and and says its time for President Biden to de-escalate the war before things get worse.

Rebekah Koffler is the president of Doctrine & Strategy Consulting, a former DIA intelligence officer, and the author of  "Putin’s Playbook: Russia’s Secret Plan to Defeat America." She also wrote the foreword for "Zelensky: The Unlikely Ukrainian Hero."

1. We are now firmly in an escalation spiral with Russia, risking our country being dragged into a Russia-NATO conflict. Having participated, as a former U.S. intelligence officer for Russia, in more than a dozen wargames, I assess that Russia will continue to escalate. While Russia has no intention of striking us with nuclear weapons, cyber strikes and attacks on U.S. space constellations -- on which we rely for every aspect of our lives and for military operations -- are part of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s asymmetric strategy to offset Russia’s conventional force inferiority. Russia also maintains an "escalation dominance" doctrine under which it responds to every action by Ukraine or the U.S. with an escalatory action. This is why attacks on the Kerch bridge, which connects Crimea with Russia’s mainland were met with massive strikes on Ukraine’s critical infrastructure, including power plants, 30% of which are now destroyed.