In the midst of tensions over Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin warns the West that, technically speaking, they are prepared for nuclear war in advance of his impending election. Despite not seeing the need for a nuclear exchange right now, he stresses the need to be prepared for one.
Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, forewarned the West on Wednesday that Moscow was theoretically prepared for nuclear war. Days before the election that is sure to give Putin another six years in office, on March 15–17, he stated, “If the US sent troops to Ukraine, it would be considered a significant escalation of the conflict.”
According to Reuters, he stated that he did not believe that a nuclear war was imminent and that using nuclear weapons in Ukraine was not necessary. When asked if the nation was prepared for nuclear war, Putin answered, “From a military-technical point of view, we are, of course, ready,” in an interview with the news agency RIA and broadcaster Rossiya-1.
He stated that “there (the US) are enough specialists in the field of Russian-American relations and the field of strategic restraint.” The US recognized that Russia would view the deployment of American troops on Russian territory, or in Ukraine, as military intervention.
We are prepared for this, he continued, so I don’t think that everything is racing toward a nuclear conflict here.Alongside another proposal for negotiations on Ukraine as part of a new post-Cold War demarcation of European security, Putin issued a nuclear threat. According to Reuters, the US claims that Putin is not prepared for meaningful negotiations in Ukraine.
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Putin has repeatedly warned the West that sending soldiers to fight in Ukraine runs the risk of starting a nuclear war. The conflict in Ukraine has caused the greatest crisis in Russia’s relations with the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
After eight years of fighting in eastern Ukraine between pro-Russian Ukrainians and Russian proxies on the one hand and Ukrainian forces on the other, Putin dispatched tens of thousands of troops into the country in February 2022, sparking a full-scale warfare.Russia, which currently holds about one-fifth of Ukrainian land and is rearmament far more quickly than both the West and Ukraine, has the West wondering how best to assist Kyiv against it.
According to Kiev, it is fighting itself against a conquering war akin to that of the empire that aims to eradicate its national character. It claims that the parts of Ukraine it controls are now part of Russia.Putin has issued the US with a number of open nuclear threats in an attempt to deter increased US engagement in Ukraine, which the Kremlin claims would lead to the outbreak of global conflict.
Putin restated that the use of nuclear weapons is outlined in the nuclear doctrine of the Kremlin, which outlines the circumstances under which it would do so: a broad reaction to an attack against Russia that uses conventional weapons “when the very existence of the state is put under threat,” or that uses nuclear or other WMDs.
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