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As Ukraine fights on with arms from the West, Vladimir Putin has issued renewed nuclear strike threats. But how serious is he? And how is the world responding?
And what makes it nuclear is because president putin, but he always has, he hasn't made a speech since about 2015, without mentioning, that russia is a major nuclear power and russia is a major nuclear power and russia holeses more nuclear weapons than any other single power in the world, so, it is president putin's threats which raise the spectre, if a nuclear weapon were used in this case, then, the likelihood, i think we are a long way from this yet, but the likelihood is it would be a tactical nuclear weapon used in ukraine somewhere, if that were the case, it would necessarily do all that...
West react to that? we don't know. the americans have a group called the tiger team or team tiger comp un2 who are working all the time on responses to anything that president putin might do next and they think about this on a daily basis, what would we do if president putin did this or that? it isn't the west is struck for options but it doesn't want to announce in advance what any options would be because that would diminish the force of them. so i don't think there would be a global nuclear war but we are closer to a use of nuclear weapons than i would have imagined before the 24th february...
VLADIMIR PUTIN’S war may not be going according to plan but he can still force the world to take a sharp intake of breath at his increasingly unhing
Putin can't be let off the hook if he uses chemical weapons in Ukraine, as Assad was let off the hook in Syria.