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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Sep 25, 2024, 09:12 PM Sep 25

Has Pooty Poot been drinking again?

Putin lowers threshold of nuclear response as he issues new warnings to the West over Ukraine

MOSCOW (AP) — In a strong, new warning to the West, President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that any nation’s conventional attack on Russia that is supported by a nuclear power will be considered a joint attack on his country.

The threat, outlined in a revision of Moscow’s nuclear doctrine, was clearly aimed at discouraging the West from allowing Ukraine to strike Russia with longer-range weapons and appears to significantly lower the threshold for the possible use of Russia’s nuclear arsenal.

Speaking at a meeting of Russia’s Security Council that considered changes in the doctrine, Putin announced that a revised version of the document states that an attack against his country by a nonnuclear power with the “participation or support of a nuclear power” will be seen as their “joint attack on the Russian Federation.”

Putin didn’t specify whether the modified document envisages a nuclear response to such an attack, but he emphasized that Russia could use nuclear weapons in response to a conventional attack posing a “critical threat to our sovereignty,” a vague formulation that leaves broad room for interpretation.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-says-nuclear-nation-supporting-171549650.html

You just blew up an ICBM in its silo and you're making threats?
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Has Pooty Poot been drinking again? (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 25 OP
Given the fact that his shit keeps literally blowing up in his face, he should STFU SheltieLover Sep 25 #1
I know beans about the political situation in Russia, but sounds to me like Vlad is near the end of his reign. Midnight Writer Sep 25 #2

Midnight Writer

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2. I know beans about the political situation in Russia, but sounds to me like Vlad is near the end of his reign.
Wed Sep 25, 2024, 09:52 PM
Sep 25

The powerbrokers in his country have got to be getting tired of his crap.

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