has to react.”Įuropean arms are currently pouring into Ukraine via Romania, Poland, and Slovakia. Russia always has nuclear-tipped strategic missiles ready to head for the U.S., so the change to look out for now would be the nuclearization of nonstrategic missiles that are intended for regional use, Krause said: “If, for instance, in the European theater, Russia is loading medium-range cruise missiles and bombers with nuclear weapons, then we have to react, and the U.S. “It’s psychological warfare, but we have to see what’s really coming out of this,” Joachim Krause, academic director of the Institute for Security Policy at Germany’s Kiel University, told Fortune on Monday.
The principle is, Why do we need the world if Russia won’t be in it?” This last phrase echoed comments made by Putin in 2008, regarding Russia’s right to respond to threats of annihilation.
Or if we turn to a Sunday broadcast by Russian TV anchor Dmitry Kiselyov, one of the main faces of the Kremlin’s domestic propaganda: “Our submarines alone can launch more than 500 nuclear warheads, which guarantees the destruction of the U.S. “Vladimir Putin is a man who can’t back down, who only escalates, who knows no boundaries.” “It’s a real threat,” Hermitage Capital Management CEO Bill Browder, a longstanding Putin critic and driving force behind the Magnitsky Act, said in a Sunday webinar with South Africa’s Daily Maverick. “This is a threat that if Russia isn’t treated as he wants, then everything will be destroyed.”
“Putin’s words sound like a direct threat of nuclear war,” Novaya Gazeta chief editor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dmitry Muratov told the BBC. But could Putin really push the button? Multiple experts say yes-and if an attack is imminent, the targets would most likely be the European countries that are racing to arm Ukraine.
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