Thursday, September 26, 2024

Vladimir Putin warns west he will consider using nuclear weapons

 

Guardian:


Vladimir Putin warns west he will consider using nuclear weapons

Comments are strongest yet against allowing Ukraine to launch long-range missiles into Russian territory



Vladimir Putin has escalated his nuclear rhetoric, telling a group of senior officials that Russia would consider using nuclear weapons if it was attacked by any state with conventional weapons.

His remarks on Wednesday came during a meeting with Russia’s powerful security council where he also announced changes to the country’s nuclear doctrine.

The comments marked Russia’s strongest warning yet to the west against allowing Ukraine to launch deep strikes into Russian territory using long-range western missiles.

The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has been asking for months for permission to use British Storm Shadow missiles and US-made Atacms missiles to hit targets deeper inside Russia.

Putin said that Russia would consider using nuclear weapons if Moscow received “reliable information” about the start of a massive launch of missiles, aircraft or drones against it.

Putin also warned that a nuclear power supporting another country’s attack on Russia would be considered a participant in aggression, issuing a thinly veiled threat to the west as foreign leaders continue to mull whether to allow Ukraine to use long-range weapons.

Putin said the clarifications were carefully calibrated and commensurate with the modern military threats facing Russia. “We see the modern military and political situation is dynamically changing and we must take this into consideration. Including the emergence of new sources of military threats and risks for Russia and our allies,” he said.

Zelenskyy’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, dismissed the new nuclear doctrine, saying: “Russia no longer has any instruments to intimidate the world apart from nuclear blackmail. These instruments will not work.”

Zelenskyy calls on international community to support real and just peace for Ukraine at UN – video

Several influential foreign policy hawks have previously pressed Putin to adopt a more assertive nuclear posture towards the west, lowering its threshold for using nuclear weapons in order to deter the west against providing more direct military support to Ukraine.

The current doctrine was set out by Putin in June 2020 in a six-page decree.

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In the early days of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Putin frequently invoked Moscow’s nuclear arsenal, the world’s biggest, repeatedly pledging to use all means necessary to defend Russia.

He later seemed to moderate his rhetoric, but officials close to the Russian president have recently warned Nato countries they risked provoking nuclear war if they gave the green light for Ukraine to use long-range weapons.

Earlier this month, Putin said that the west would be directly fighting with Russia if it gave such permission to Ukraine – and that Russia would be forced to make “appropriate decisions”, without spelling out what those measures could be.



5 comments:

  1. Russia is a murderous trespasser on Ukrania soil....Russia should Get The Fuck out of Ukraine before they talk about Russial sovereignty.

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  2. Don't let monster sees it. It's fake news from a fake news peddler.

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    We pretty much saw this coming early in the war.

    Russia could have turned Kiev into a glowing parking lot day one. Instead they have kept a slow, plodding pace that has caused The West to deplete resources and has exposed NATO as a paper tiger.

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  3. Is there "war and rumours of war"...?

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    Have you noticed the change in, “the news?”

    We’re pretty much down to a few repetitive subjects; the ones we always knew would matter.

    - The election, of course
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    - War and rumors of war
    - The jab genocide and medical malfeasance
    - Corruption at the highest levels of government and industry
    - Illegal immigration in Western countries

    Everything pretty much falls into these categories.

    At the center of it all is the Globalist Criminal Syndicate.

    We know we are nearly at the precipice because everything is rapidly approaching that central theme.

    The snowball is rolling and just keeps getting bigger.

    At this stage of the game we are here, together, to keep each other sane and watch as the snowball becomes an avalanche.

    Stay comfy. Keep each other smiling. We’re almost there.

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  4. Pay attention to the "quote-unquote" part...appearance is deceiving. And yes, the anons had dug operatives in the US Federal level that originate from Iran in the last couple of years...for info only

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  5. Fake opinion?

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    Has Zelensky become too toxic for Bill and Hillary Clinton?

    The issues of Ukraine, its leadership and its crises were noticeably absent on this year's Clinton Global Initiative 2024 agenda: no Ukrainian political or social leaders took the stage during the Clintons' 2024 event.

    This raised the eyebrows of those who remember how the Clintons wooed the Zelenskys in 2022 and 2023.

    Speaking to Sputnik, Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel suggests that Volodymyr Zelensky has become "radioactive" for the Clintons.

    Why is that?

    ▪️The pundit drew attention to the fact that Zelensky lost his legitimacy under Ukrainian law after his presidential term expired in May.

    ▪️The Kiev regime's corruption has become so notorious that even the US mainstream press that used to tout Zelensky as a "new Churchill" is now bashing its cabinet for not doing enough to stop the embezzlement of foreign funds.

    ▪️Ortel does not rule out that the funds from the widely advertised CGI Ukraine Action Network may have met the same fate as other Western funds which weren't sufficiently supervised by any government or independent watchdogs.

    ▪️The Pew Research Center's July survey found that confidence in Zelensky has dropped in the US and several European countries compared to last year.

    ▪️Washington has been allegedly working on options to replace Zelensky with "a more manageable and less corrupt figure," as the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) revealed in mid-August.

    Apparently, under those circumstances the Clintons may have decided that any further bromance with the Zelensky family wouldn't correspond to their interests, according to the analyst.

    One should bear in mind that the Clintons themselves appear "to specialize in monetizing their public service for illegal private gain," says Ortel, who has carried out a private investigation into the Clinton Foundation's alleged fraud for several years.

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