Putin Hints at More Nukes to Keep up With Anti-Russian NATO
Russian president noted that France and the UK seek the "strategic defeat"
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Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, said in an interview Sunday that Russia will have to consider expanding its nuclear weapons program to keep up with NATO countries who are actively seeking the demise of Moscow in Ukraine.
“In today’s conditions, when all the leading NATO countries have declared their main goal to inflict a strategic defeat on us, to make our people suffer ... how can we not take into account their nuclear capabilities? Moreover, they supply weapons to Ukraine worth tens of billions of dollars,” he said, according to the Associated Press.
We have reported since the start of the war that NATO and the U.S. are at war with Russia. The U.S. has provided over $30 billion in weapons, trains Ukrainian troops, and provides intelligence to Kyiv. There are also special operation forces on the ground in the country.
Dmitry Medvedev, the head of Russia’s Security Council, accused NATO of “pumping in of weapons,” which “prevent any possibility of reviving negotiations,” according to Reuters.
“Our enemies are doing just that, not wanting to understand that their goals will certainly lead to a total fiasco. Loss for everyone. A collapse. Apocalypse. Where you forget for centuries about your former life, until the rubble ceases to emit radiation,” he said.
Dmitry Medvedev wrote an op-ed in the Russian paper Izvestia, which was translated into English.
“Russia will not allow” its defeat, he wrote.
“Western countries with satellites account only for 15 percent of the world’s population. There are many more of us, and we are much stronger. The calm power of our great country and the authority of our partners are the key to preserving the future for our entire world,” he wrote.
Western countries often forget that there are other regions of the world and they have refused to join Washington in its blind hatred for Russia and its defeat-Putin-at-all-costs approach to the conflict through sanctions and billions in aid.
Mauro Vieira, Brazil’s foreign minister, called the war in Ukraine a very sad situation and said his country “deplored” Russia’s decision to invade. But he noted how the world is approaching the one-year anniversary of the invasion and said it is high time to start building the possibility of a solution.