Moscow warns that one of its defeat in Ukraine could lead to a nuclear conflict. Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the President’s National Security Council Wladimir Putin, he wrote on Telegram. Western politicians “repeat like a mantra: To achieve peace, lRussia must lose” writes Medvedev, “no one thinks of drawing from this elementary conclusion: The defeat of a nuclear power in a conventional war can trigger the start of a nuclear war. Nuclear powers have never lost conflicts on which their fate depends. That should be clear to everyone. Even a Western politician”. Russia has an arsenal of 6 thousand nuclear warheads.
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Medvedev is not new to apocalyptic statements, according to observers, is primarily aimed at an internal audience. However the Kremlin subscribed to Medvedev’s comments and called them “in full compliance” with the Russian nuclear policy, what the opportunity offers use nuclear weapons to respond to “aggression against the Russian Federation”, even if carried out with conventional weapons, on condition that “the very existence of the state is threatened”. Medvedev’s comments come after the New York Times wrote that the United States was revising its position on the possibility of Kyiv retaking Crimea. The White House is reportedly considering the possibility of the peninsula being destroyed Subject to attacks with Washington-supplied weapons.
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