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When Putin announced that he was putting his nuclear forces on high alert back in February or March, it was not to threaten Ukraine, but to threaten NATO countr
by azangru 4y ago
When Putin announced that he was putting his nuclear forces on high alert back in February or March, it was not to threaten Ukraine, but to threaten NATO countries who might come to its assistance. I have not since then heard him threaten Ukraine with his nukes. Perhaps I missed his threats? Do you have a link to one?
As for whose fault is what — honestly, would you care, if either Russia launches nukes or NATO does so preemptively, and then the other side inevitably retaliates, and our world dies in flames — would you really care whose fault it would have been? Would it really matter to you?
- choko 4y agoYeah you definitely missed it. See the link below. Kadyrov is also one of the likely successors to Putin. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-says-its-troops-left-lyman-avoid-encirclement-2022-10-01/ https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-says-its-troops-...
- azangru 4y agoI checked out the link. Didn't the parent comment say that it was Putin — italicized — who threatened to nuke Ukraine? Wouldn't the evidence for that need to point at specific Putin's words to that effect?
- choko 4y agoSo other high officials, and Putin's likely successor making threats means nothing? You're really splitting hairs here man.
- azangru 4y agoWhat makes you think that Kadyrov is Putin's likely successor? Anything could happen, of course; but as a Chechen and a demonstratively, fervently devout Muslim, Kadyrov would be an even scarier figure for the outwardly Orthodox Russians than Stalin was.
- IAmGraydon 4y agoKadyrov is certainly not a likely successor to Putin.