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Westerners wonder after Vladimir Putin's nuclear threats

2022-02-28T18:18:33.713Z


ANALYSIS - The crazy decision to launch a major offensive in Ukraine, as well as its nuclear threats in the midst of a gigantic crisis, raises the question of the mental state of the Russian president.


Nuclear.

In its military dimension, the word always frightens.

And it has been three times in less than a month that Vladimir Putin has referred to it, directly or indirectly.

On February 8 in Moscow, from the end of the huge table around which he received his French counterpart:

“We don't have the same power as NATO.

However, we have nuclear weapons.

On February 24, the first day of the invasion of Ukraine, when he warned those who tried to interfere with his actions: "

You will suffer consequences you have never experienced before. "

Sunday, finally, by ordering the "

warning

of the Russian deterrent force.

Knowing that the country has the full range of strategic nuclear weapons as well as tactical weapons, the temperature has risen a notch in some chancelleries.

But all of them kept their cool.

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Source: lefigaro

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