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Russia to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus in July, Putin says
NBC News ^ | 06/09/2023 | Staff

Posted on 06/09/2023 2:48:33 PM PDT by thegagline

Russia will start deploying tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus after special storage facilities are ready on July 7-8, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday, Moscow’s first move of such bombs outside Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union.

More than 15 months into the biggest land war in Europe since World War Two, Putin says the United States and its Western allies are pumping arms into Ukraine as part of an expanding proxy war aimed at bringing Russia to its knees.

Putin in March announced he wanted to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, an apparent warning to the U.S.-led NATO military alliance over it support for Ukraine.

Leading NATO countries say they will support Ukraine and help it defend itself for as long as it takes from what Kyiv casts as an imperial-style land grab by Russia which threatens the survival of the Ukrainian state.

“Everything is going according to plan,” Putin told Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko when discussing the planned nuclear deployment during talks at the Russian leader’s Black Sea summer retreat in Sochi.

“Preparation of the relevant facilities ends on July 7-8, and we will immediately begin activities related to the deployment of appropriate types of weapons on your territory,” Putin said, according to a Kremlin transcript of his remarks. *** Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine will not rest however until every last Russian soldier is ejected from his country, which he wants to join NATO as soon as possible.

Putin’s nuclear move is being watched closely by both the United States and its NATO allies in Europe and by China, which has repeatedly cautioned against the use of nuclear weapons in the conflict.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Russia; Ukraine; War
KEYWORDS: belarus; bidenswar; demsunited4coruption; demsunited4kickbacks; demsunitedforbribes; demsunitedforukraine; neoconsarefools; nuclear; nukes; russia; tactical; weapons; worldwariii; ww3; zelenskyqs
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To: MeganC

I see the crazy talk is back heh. It’s ok, light it up. I know where I’m going.


21 posted on 06/09/2023 4:55:22 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Rocco DiPippo

So you think we’re not supposed to respond if Russia fires a nuke at us or our allies?


22 posted on 06/09/2023 5:05:49 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: Bulwyf

And you’re another who thinks Russia can attack NATO with a nuke and we’re not supposed to respond?


23 posted on 06/09/2023 5:09:33 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: MeganC
And you’re another who thinks Russia can attack NATO with a nuke and we’re not supposed to respond?

It's not the matter of 'response' people are questioning, it's your lack of imagination over the 'what comes next' matter. You know, the whole 'civilization ending war' thing...
24 posted on 06/09/2023 5:36:59 PM PDT by shadowlands1960 (We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
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To: shadowlands1960

And how do you propose we respond if Russia makes good on their daily nuclear threats and tosses a nuke at Warsaw, London, or New York?


25 posted on 06/09/2023 5:58:55 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: MeganC
And Belarus will be a nuclear target for NATO again. So if Russia fires a ‘tactical’ nuke at Poland NATO will respond by obliterating Russia and Belarus.

uh......that means several cities in the US turn into mushroom clouds.

If the Ruskies fire a nuke we return in kind. Not full scale launch.

26 posted on 06/09/2023 6:28:58 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: MeganC

They’re not attacking anyone with a nuke. They’ve used thermobarics in Ukraine, but that’s it.


27 posted on 06/09/2023 7:05:09 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: thegagline

Not news. They’ve been there all along...


28 posted on 06/09/2023 7:10:30 PM PDT by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinions)
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To: MeganC

At either of those three, or DC? I would suggest a good response would be a Hallmark “Thank You” card in Cyrillic. :)


29 posted on 06/09/2023 7:14:30 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: OakOak

Yep


30 posted on 06/09/2023 7:48:22 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: thegagline

The real threat is from SLBMs, this is just theater. Remember we had nukes in Turkey when we cried foul over the USSR wanting nukes in Cuba. In fact we still have nukes in Turkey.


31 posted on 06/09/2023 8:26:12 PM PDT by LukeL
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To: DesertRhino

Okay...that was funny!


32 posted on 06/09/2023 9:10:53 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: Bulwyf

And I sincerely hope the Russians love their children enough not to go nuclear.


33 posted on 06/09/2023 9:43:06 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: LukeL

We allegedly pulled out the Jupiter missiles in Turkey.


34 posted on 06/09/2023 9:51:54 PM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater in 2024)
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To: thegagline

We’ll be lucky if they don’t end up in Cuba also.


35 posted on 06/09/2023 10:25:36 PM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: MeganC
So you think we’re not supposed to respond if Russia fires a nuke at us or our allies?

I think a better question is this: Are you willing to see every American city destroyed, are you willing to sacrifice your life and the lives of your family members and friends to "protect" a hyper-corrupt sinkhole, its phony, grifting, installed puppet leader and corrupt, West and America-hating scum including the WEF, Soros, Globalists, grifting politicians and their spawn like the Bidens, Romneys, Pelosis and Kerrys, defense contractors, Scumocrats, RINOs, the UN, the EU, the filthbags who concocted the destructive Covid lockdowns and persecutions, and the vile, leftist media who support the whole, rotten, corrupt thing?

To me, the answer is obvious.

36 posted on 06/10/2023 1:02:52 AM PDT by Rocco DiPippo
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To: thegagline

Thanks Biden.


37 posted on 06/10/2023 3:41:39 AM PDT by NeverTyranny
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To: McGruff

China just pumped money into Cuba. Bought the place.

#CCP installing a big digital Ear/Eye there to monitor us.

Xi may not want to share with Putin nukes.


38 posted on 06/10/2023 4:04:35 AM PDT by Syncro (God is Good--Facts is Facts)
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To: OakOak

Kaise Klaus und Yuval Harari are rooting that Putin goes nuclear to hasten du population reduction strategy..


39 posted on 06/10/2023 4:39:41 AM PDT by Shady (The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
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To: Syncro
China and Russia are allies. But the Chinese appear to be interested in financial, rather than military, conquest. If Putin goes off the rails and takes on China's European and American trading partners, Xi can cut off oil and natural gas purchases from Russia.

However, if NATO and the U.S. topple the current Russian regime and replace it with a Boris Yeltsin type pro-Western government and particularly if Russia breaks apart as the Soviet Union did 32 years ago, China will be isolated on the world scene. India and Brazil will re-align with the West as will most of the small Marxist regimes like Cuba and Venezuela. Xi may think Putin a bit crazy, but he does not want to be reduced to submission to the decadent West and its anti-industrial, "green" agenda.

40 posted on 06/10/2023 4:39:54 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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