Posted on 12/14/2021 11:23:49 AM PST by Red Badger
A top Russian diplomat has warned that Moscow will respond “militarily” and deploy tactical nuclear weapons outside Ukraine, if NATO does not guarantee an end to its eastward expansion.
His remarks raise the stakes even higher in the confrontation between Russia and Western powers just days after Biden and Russia’s Vladimir Putin held a two-hour video conference aimed at defusing a burgeoning crisis over Russian military movements near Ukraine’s borders.
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov’s threat comes amid rising fears that Putin is considering a further military incursion into Ukraine in a rehash of Russia’s 2014 annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and its seizure of a large part of the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine, bordering Russia.
Following the call between Johnson and Putin, Ryabkov told the state-run RIA Novosti news agency Russia’s “response will be military,” if NATO continues to arm Ukraine. “A lack of progress towards a political-diplomatic solution would mean that our response will be military and military-technical,” Ryabkov said.
“There will be confrontation,” he added, saying Russia would deploy weapons previously banned under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, an arms control deal struck in 1987 by then US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev.
SOURCE — VOA NEWS
https://www.voanews.com/a/russia-threatens-to-deploy-tactical-nuclear-weapons-/6354408.html
Umm...Oh, s**t.....
The pitiful WEAKNESS of Benedict Biden has emboldened both President Putin and Chairman Xi.
See Brandon Run.
While I have great distrust about Putin, unfortunately the man named Xiden who disrespected President Trump during a fake debate by telling him to “shut up” and also calling him a “clown” gets no slack or benefit of the doubt from me at the water’s edge. Xiden does not respect our own borders, why does he care about the Ukranian border?
Let the EU with their Xiden approved pipeline deal with it.
"Run Brandon, RUN!"
“”Run Brandon, RUN!””
Brandon sees ice cream stand. Walks over and orders corn pops.
Well...the EU wanted Brandon. Let them deal with it.
They got what they paid for........................
I see a Gulf of Tonkin incident brewing in the Ukraine. I think Russia will move on Ukraine while blaming them at the same time. Putin just issued a “hands off” warning.
I suspect Putin’s conversation with Xi was about coordination. Expect some move by the Chinese when Putin moves.
And slo-joe will use the circumstances to further restrict American freedom and movement.
I don’t get the “warm fuzzies” about all of this. Too many commies talking to each other of late.
Realistically, all the key targets are covered, programmed for hits anyway.
Yep! And they wanted their gas.
Listen for the sound of Libs demanding Sleepy Joe use US troops and stand up to Putin even if means war
So then deploy them.
If we want to stop this invasion place forces on that border. Does Putin really want WWIII. No. He just wants to swallow Eastern Ukraine.
Because the Ukrainians pay him to sacrifice American soldiers so the Ukrainians won't have to sacrifice theirs.
Russia and China have had their spheres of influence for hundreds or thousands of years. It’s totally natural (Monroe Doctrine). China and Russia are dead serious about both of these areas. Our new regime blundering around trying wag the dog or divert attention from rampant inflation could put us in a situation that escalates into WWIII.
Great.
Red Storm Rising meets Fallout Live.
Gee, pushing NATO to Russia’s entire western border was a smart idea!
Old school.
Good book. Bad too.
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