What Putin really said about nukes

22 September 2022

Russia's (Ukraine War) partial mobilization

In support of holding referendums in Russian-heritage portions of eastern Ukraine, Putin said the following — here via The Guardian's video translation:

We will do everything to ensure safe conditions to hold the referendums, so that people can express their will.

We will support the decision on their future, made by the residents of Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions.

In its aggressive anti-Russia policy, the West has crossed every line.

We hear constant threats against our country and our people.

Some irresponsible politicians in the West speak not only about delivering Ukraine long-range weaponry, (missile) systems that would allow (Kyiv) to strike Crimea and other Russian regions.

These acts of terror, including using Western weapons, are already being carried out in Border regions, in Belgorod and Kursk regions.

Even nuclear blackmail has come into play.

We are talking not only about the shelling of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, encouraged by the West, which threatens to unleash a nuclear catastrophe, but also statements by some high-ranking representatives of leading NATO countries on the possibility and admissibility of using weapons of mass destruction against Russia — nuclear weapons.

I want to remind those who allow themselves such statements about Russia that our country also has a variety of weapons of destruction, and in some areas even more modern than those in NATO countries.

We will without question use all the means at our disposal to protect Russia and our people.

This is not a bluff.

And those who try to blackmail us with nuclear weapons should know that 'prevailing winds' can also blow in their direction.

Notice that the Russian leader is pointing the West's constant escalation . . .

. . . of the war that NATO itself instigated.

One might reasonably presume that Putin is concerned that a Russian mobilization, no matter how limited it is (even now), will provoke still more West-sponsored escalatory warmongering.

And thus, a reasonable person in Putin's leadership position might seek to stave off a hubris-based Western mistake that might ignite into nuclear war.

Ergo Putin's warning about using "all means" to defend the Federation.

The moral? — This planet's most influentially destructive lunatics are all located in the West

Sanity seems to have taken refuge in the East.

When the World War (that is likely coming) is over — and if a Phoenix rises (at all) from our charred and ashy bones — it will do so in either East or South.

For its part, the West will essentially have destroyed itself with an almost unbelievable combination of Avarice and (aggressively nutso-neocon) Stupidity.

One might even come to call our hegemonic demise, a necessary mercy killing.

'Yes, child, it took nukes to kill that evil.'

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What Putin really said about nukes