“Asked by reporters if the regions were under Moscow’s nuclear umbrella, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: “All these territories are inalienable parts of the Russian Federation and they are all protected. Their security is provided for at the same level as [it is for] the rest of Russia’s territory.”
President Vladimir Putin said last month that Moscow was ready to use nuclear weapons if necessary to defend Russia’s “territorial integrity”.”
Many thanks. Travis is difficult to convince on this :) It was Putin and his TV media spokes-stooges who love to curry favor with The Boss. Who brought up nuke use first.
If you missed this. And I read about this. -—>>>
To Travis>>
You almost got it right. The British Intelligence theory is, that by constantly publicizing and playing up Putin’s stupid nuke talk, that this handcuffs Putin from ever using them. This is the “predictive programming” that is going on.
(part of this clever Brit psyching out of Putin. Handcuffing him on nuke use. Was that Putin might explode a nuke over the Black Sea to show seriousness of intent. Ridiculous but colorful. As seen in UK Daily Mail)
******And it was Rus who destroyed their own pipeline. Actually, Germans paid half.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk-0qJXyido