The Russian president has again threatened nuclear war if Western countries become more involved in invading Ukraine, saying he is ready to attack but believes the United States will exercise “restraint.” , softened his statement.
President Vladimir Putin faces re-election for a fifth term this week, but Western observers say this vote is otherwise. fair and free He then gave a pre-election interview on Russian television, in which he again spoke about the possibility of nuclear war over Ukraine. In the interview, which aired on Wednesday morning, Putin insisted his country was fully prepared to use nuclear weapons, but said he did not see the world “rushing towards it” yet. .
Putin warned that Russia’s military doctrine absolutely calls for nuclear retaliation if the Russian government, the country’s sovereignty and independence are threatened, adding: “We are ready for that…military, From a technical point of view, we are ready,” he told the station.
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Referring to comments by France’s Emmanuel Macron about the possibility of NATO countries sending troops to Ukraine, he said that despite anger from allies’ leaders about the dangers of such statements. Reinforcing their position further, Putin said: “Countries that claim they have nothing.” We should recognize that just as there are no red lines regarding Russia, Russia has no red lines regarding them either. ”
President Putin again explicitly referred to Ukraine’s Western boots on the ground and quipped that Ukraine has not yet used battlefield tactical nuclear weapons because there was no need for it so far.
But the Russian president, who is likely to “win” another six years in power this week, said he felt no obligation to launch nuclear weapons if the West did as he said, and has called for moderation in war negotiations. I finished it. He said he expected NATO members to keep their troops out of Ukraine, and that he was open to negotiations with the West about the future of the country he invaded. He said it would only be based on what he called “reality.”
Undoubtedly, these realities include recognition of Russia’s position that the areas of Ukraine it controls are now actually part of Russia, which Kiev and its allies clearly reject. However, any realistic prospects for negotiations remain remote.
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The interview marks the second nuclear threat by Putin himself in recent weeks. In late February, the president warned of the “tragic” consequences of increased NATO involvement in Ukraine in his State of the Union address, while stressing the “full readiness” of nuclear weapons. He said of Western leaders: …Those people have not gone through severe trials and have forgotten what war means. ”
But Putin was kinder about the state of Western leadership today, telling President Biden he was too smart to provoke nuclear war. He said the United States has enough experts to understand “Russian relations and strategic restraint,” which means “I don’t think everything will go head-on here, but we’re ready for it.” He said there was.
Since the job of deconstructing is usually left to low-ranking officials such as Foreign Minister Lavrov, Spokesman Peskov, or even former President Dmitry Medvedev, who in recent years has virtually made a career out of threatening nuclear Armageddon, the Russian president has taken this step. It is somewhat unusual for Japan to issue nuclear threats so frequently. . As previously reported, Medvedev even threatened to drop a bomb on the International Criminal Court in The Hague after it issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin on criminal charges.
