'No matter what the political climate, Russia must work with the United States to control the risk that nuclear weapons will be used—and to eliminate them,' says Global Zero. 'Anything less means disaster for everyone.'
: "When asked by the forum's moderator about the possibility of using those weapons, he replied: 'Why should we threaten the whole world? I have already said that the use of extreme measures is possible in case there is a danger to Russian statehood.'"that "Russia's goals here appear more political than military."
"First, and as it relates to the war in the Ukraine, he wants to again highlight his own unpredictability, specifically his willingness to escalate the conflict if certain red lines are crossed," Lane wrote. "Highlighting the possibility of a nuclear exchange over the war in the Ukraine also serves a second political goal for Moscow, which is to find and exploit wedge issues that can be used to influence European public opinion.
"Perhaps most importantly for the Kremlin, however, is that the re-stationing of nuclear weapons in Belarus marks real and measurable progress in Putin's effort to reconstitute a 'Greater Russia,'" Lane added. "With the debacle of his so-called 'special military operation' and the now extreme improbability that the Ukrainians would ever voluntarily join such a union, the Russian president needs to be able to identify some success in making Russia great again.
;“Putin: ;“We have more [nuclear] weapons than NATO countries. They know about it and all the time we are persuaded to start negotiations on their reduction. Fuck them, you know, as our people say.;” https://t.co/En6U9Z7DzY\n\nDirect violation of NPT Article VI.;”
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