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Dan Hoffman: Putin threatening nuclear option because he's 'running out of cards to play'
Fox news ^ | 02/28/2022 | Fox news staff

Posted on 02/28/2022 7:22:13 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Former CIA station chief Dan Hoffman joined "Fox & Friends" Monday to discuss Putin's latest move to put nuclear deterrent forces on alert after seeing a lack of momentum in overthrowing Ukraine. Hoffman said Putin made the risky decision because he is "running out of cards to play" and is looking to discourage NATO from sending weapons and aid to Ukraine.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: cards; cia; nuclear; option; putin
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I don't trust the CIA former or present
1 posted on 02/28/2022 7:22:13 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“I don’t trust the CIA former or present”

Agreed.


2 posted on 02/28/2022 7:23:34 AM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yay, we have the nuclear superpower on the run now! Victory is within our grasp! /s


3 posted on 02/28/2022 7:26:31 AM PST by cmj328 (We live here.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Morale is low throughout the Russian army. Putin has lost the political support of the Russian people. Great harm has come to Russia as a result of this catastrophic, bad decision by Putin. The Russian political infrastructure, in ways the West simply does not understand has a history and way of removing autocrats who have failed. Any Freepers wish to speculate how long Putin remains in power?


4 posted on 02/28/2022 7:26:44 AM PST by allendale
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hoffman seems to be a pretty straight shooter who is not hyperbolic. If he has an agenda it has never been obvious to me and he is willing to go against the group-think that dominates his prior agency.

Does that mean he is right? Who knows? However, his opinions on Russia are always worth considering.


5 posted on 02/28/2022 7:28:49 AM PST by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: allendale

Longer than a week. I think your hopes that this operation has failed less than a week in is wishful thinking.


6 posted on 02/28/2022 7:29:33 AM PST by Silver78
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Fox & Fiends” and the rest of Fox has been hysterical about Ukraine recently. I want to know what the end game is, as it seems TPTB are pushing us to war against Russia.


7 posted on 02/28/2022 7:30:12 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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“Former CIA station chief “

Tells ya right there it’s BS.

People are going to be shocked when Putin wins this one.


8 posted on 02/28/2022 7:30:13 AM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (Putin is behaving rationally. The war is on Biden and Obama.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So does putin nuke the SOTU ?


9 posted on 02/28/2022 7:36:39 AM PST by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I almost feel bad for people that still have an impulse to watch any of this corporate studio news.

Since the death of Rush, it has become crystal clear what a historic figure he was for the right and the utter uselessness of the posers who road his coattails.

Wasn’t twenty years of lies from the same people enough?


10 posted on 02/28/2022 7:36:51 AM PST by ALX
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To: allendale

According to Hotair China has cut off its oil trades with Russia and Bank of Singapore has joined the West’s banking sanctions.


11 posted on 02/28/2022 7:39:11 AM PST by xkaydet65 ( )
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To: brownsfan

Looks like biden is compromised, and this is part of a plan,covid release, putin gets europe africa, Xi gets Asia Australia, biden crime families and cronies get the America’s..

I expect it will require putin
Use nukes, more than likely on Germany,all other nuclear powers will stand down to survive..France etc
China and the US will not respond,
Game over..
Meet your new master..
The beast..

https://rumble.com/vvvi0b-we-got-us-a-convoy.html


12 posted on 02/28/2022 7:51:33 AM PST by aces (and )
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To: aces

As always there are many possibilities


13 posted on 02/28/2022 7:54:24 AM PST by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Dan Hoffman must be doing drugs again.


14 posted on 02/28/2022 7:58:19 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: no-to-illegals

Very true


15 posted on 02/28/2022 8:03:54 AM PST by aces (and )
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To: aces
It would be something if Putin is willing to become the first person to begin a war and then use nuclear weapons in an aggressive offensive nature.

As of now, Truman is the only person to order the use of nukes, and that was a defensive move in a war that Japan started.

If Putin were to use nuclear weapons in an offensive war, it would certainly solidify his place in history.

-PJ

16 posted on 02/28/2022 8:05:22 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: PghBaldy
it seems TPTB are pushing us to war against Russia.

Who? The Pretty Tall Blondes?

17 posted on 02/28/2022 8:09:01 AM PST by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Yea, he doesn’t care, like Xi, and Biden group looking at jan6th first blood against the American people. IF Covid was
A bio release, then the major players
We’re in on it, they’ve already killed millions..
I think he will see nuking Germany or other countries as a badge of honor saving the Russian people..and knowing if he doesn’t win, his country is gone, he has big plans for the reset. Nukes,no problem,, Xi and Biden are on His side..


18 posted on 02/28/2022 8:12:51 AM PST by aces (and )
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To: aces
Biden is a cutout. He' incapable of handling anything in any sense of totality.

Biden is currently cramming for the SOTU address coming up tomorrow. He's probably not aware of the current situation in Ukraine, and if he has been briefed on it he probably wasn't given any details out of fear it would mess up his SOTU practice.

-PJ

19 posted on 02/28/2022 8:16:13 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Political Junkie Too

Truman’s we’re not defensive.


20 posted on 02/28/2022 8:17:18 AM PST by ARW
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