Posted on 03/21/2023 11:04:18 AM PDT by Kazan
(Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday condemned British plans to send tank ammunition that contains depleted uranium to Ukraine, saying Moscow would be forced to respond accordingly.
Speaking in London on Monday, Minister of State for Defence Annabel Goldie said some of the ammunition for the Challenger 2 battle tanks that Britain is sending to Ukraine includes armour piercing rounds which contain depleted uranium.
"If all this happens, Russian will have to respond accordingly, given that the West collectively is already beginning to use weapons with a nuclear component," Putin said in remarks after a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping. He did not elaborate.
Russian politicians and commentators have made a series of combative remarks since the invasion of Ukraine last year, suggesting Moscow would - if necessary - be prepared to deploy its vast nuclear arsenal.
Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said the British decision left fewer and fewer steps before a potential "nuclear collision" between Russia and the West.
"Another step has been taken, and there are fewer and fewer left," he told reporters in remarks cited by domestic agencies.
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“the contamination from this ammo will have long term health consequences on the Ukrainian people”
Tell it to Putin. The sooner he orders his army to leave, the sooner the environment of Ukraine can start recovering from the devastation for which he is the singular cause.
Russia invaded Ukraine. Russia is free to go home to Moscow and have “peace talks” from there any time they want to. Obviously, warmongering Russia wants to make war and has no interest in living peacefully with its neighbors.
Russia has been raining incendiary munitions., etc., on Ukraine and destroying entire Ukrainian cities. Now they’re worried about some ammo? Ridiculous.
It’s just another woke, green, pervo globalist escalation. Another step closer to your dreams of woke, green, pervo world domination. Unless the Russians decide to escalate as well.
Actually, the USA/NATO conducted an anschluss of Western Ukraine.
And as you all like to say - if you don't stop them there, you'll have to fight them on your borders, which is happening now.
Said Russia for every action the US and Europe have taken to aid Ukraine since the war began.
Then when Russia's bluff is called, they act like it never mattered and had no effect anyway.
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You fricken’ people have no idea what you are talking about, spewing the arms’ industry’s propaganda as truth.
The 1/2 life of depleted uranium [U238] is 4.5 Billion Years.
NATO sowed Yugoslavia with tons of this shit in ‘99; their cancer rates are now through the roof. I personally know of at least 10 people dead of early cancers in that country, zero in same age group here.
You think this is a game? Jesus!
LOL. Everyone from Bush to Obama to Biden needs to apologize to Ukraine, and then Europe, for the total military and economic devastation they have caused, by using Ukraine as a political whore and neocon tool in their corrupt neocon great-power strategic games.
Then Biden will have to specifically apologize to Germany for blowing up their $20 billion pipeline, costing their economy $200 billion in extra energy costs. He'll then have to turn himself over to the International Criminal Court, where he will face war-crimes charges.
The Soviet Union has been dead for 31 years, but much of the international left and "Global South" can't pull their lips off its rotting buttocks.
Russia is a pariah state simply being taken advantage of by China and India who are colluding with Russia's brutal but incompetent government to rob it blind.
PDS
(Putin Derangement Syndrome)
Biden blames his own son’s brain cancer death on the burn pits and toxic weapons used in Kuwait and Iraq
You entirely miss the point
Putin is now unable to travel in most of the world under threat of arrest.
I know people here who spent 20 years with DU in the Army. It's as toxic as any other heavy metal like lead or tin or even the explosive residue from shells. That's it.
So they were breathing and eating the DU like NATO forced upon the citizens of Yugo?
No?
Sprinkle some on your eggs if you have the balls to back up your weapons industry shilling with your own body.
While my main point was that DU is not fissile, and hence not nuclear, its long half-life combined with low amounts of U-234 and U-235 actually make it less toxic and only weakly radioactive. Like many other US military personnel, I worked with DU rounds when I was in the Army. There have been no adverse affects.
Less toxic than the propaganda you’re apparently eating.
You’re living in fantasy land. Only one man ordered an army to invade Ukraine and start destroying the place, and that man is Vladimir Putin.
try reading it again. Putin is not the one using depleted uranium. The western leaders are the ones using Ukraine’s people as pawns in their war for globohomo MIC. Peace on acceptable terms is very possible, if the globohomo MIC was willing, but they are not. So millions of ukrainians must pay the price for globohomo.
Good points.
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