Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday that Putin had merely been answering a journalist’s questions on the subject and restating the already well known circumstances in which Russia would theoretically be forced to use nuclear weapons.

Peskov also drew attention to the fact that Putin had said in the same interview that the idea of using tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine had never crossed his mind.

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    2 years ago

    Whether it’s Russia, or anyone else who’s a nuclear power, or any other country or terrorist organisation that has access somehow to a nuclear weapon - why does it matter if they say they won’t use it? If shit hits the fan, or they go crazy, they will use it

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    There’s so much misinformation being perpetuated by the West.

    I guarantee you, most people here believe Putin said “3 days” without ever seeing the source. No Russian official has ever said they expected to take Kiev in 3 days, but it’s been told often enough that dumbasses believe it as fact.

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    Now, I’ll grant you, I have ZERO knowledge of Russian and so can only work from translation, BUT…

    https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-warns-west-risk-nuclear-war-says-moscow-can-strike-western-targets-2024-02-29/

    “(Western nations) must realise that we also have weapons that can hit targets on their territory. All this really threatens a conflict with the use of nuclear weapons and the destruction of civilisation. Don’t they get that?!”

    Seems unambiguous…

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      Notice: ‘…we also have…’

      He is referring at the precarious nuclear effective capabilities Russia have compared to Nato countries. Ofc western headliners will write NUCLEAR WAR IMMINENT.