Russia’s Nuclear Threats Are All Putin Has Left
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Yesterday, I discussed the shambolic attempt under way in Russia to conscript hundreds of thousands of men. Today, one of Vladimir Putin’s minions again threatened the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine. What do these threats mean?
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‘The Most Fearsome Weapon’
One of Russian President Vladmir Putin’s cronies renewed Putin’s nuclear threats against NATO today. Dmitry Medvedev, in a post on Telegram, that the West would not intervene even if “Russia is forced to use the most fearsome weapon against the Ukrainian regime,” the “demagogues
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