RITTER: Russia Makes it Clear That Nuclear War Real Risk if West Escalates in Ukraine

Moscow sees Western approval for Ukraine to use long-range missiles to strike deep inside Russia as a red line, former UN weapons inspector says

Scott Ritter, the former UN weapons inspector, said Tuesday that Russia’s decision to conduct a massive exercise on its nuclear readiness is a reminder to the West that its response will be severe if Ukraine gets the approval to use long-range missiles to strike targets deep inside Russia.

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“Russia’s won this war. There’s nothing we could do to stop this. But if we want to escalate, then Russia will tell us what the price of escalation will be. And that will be a nuclear war, and we’ll all die” - Ritter

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been urging Western leaders to approve these attacks and these long-range missiles — provided by the U.S., UK, France, and Germany — were a centerpiece of his so-called “Victory Plan.”

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Russian President Vladimir Putin said recently that the Russian defense ministry “is thinking about how to respond to the possible long-range strikes on Russian territory," Putin said.

“It will offer a range of responses,” he said, according to Politico.

Andrei Belousov, the Russian defense minister, said the purpose of the exercise was to practice delivering a “massive nuclear strike by strategic offensive forces in response to a nuclear strike by the enemy.”

Ritter described a dire situation on the battlefield for Ukraine and said allies like Poland have accepted that Kyiv has lost the war.

“The only hope that Ukraine has is that it will get permission to use long-range weapons, and Russia has already told the West what the consequences of that will be, and I think this current nuclear exercise just proves that,” he told the “Dialogue Works” podcast.

He said the Russians put the marker down to the West that any country that approves these weapons to be used, you become a party to the conflict and Russia will “hold you accountable up to and including using weapons against your soil and those weapons may be nuclear in nature if you want to take it that route. And 72 minutes after the first nuclear weapon’s used, we’re all dead.”

He said Russia’s simply reminding us that “they’re not joking.”

“Russia’s won this war. There’s nothing we can do to stop this. But if we want to escalate, then Russia will tell us what the price of escalation will be. And that will be a nuclear war, and we’ll all die,” he said.