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There was real risk that Russia would use nuclear weapons in Ukraine: CIA director
NBC via Yahoo ^ | September 7, 2024 | Dan De Luce

Posted on 09/08/2024 12:29:45 PM PDT by Mariner

There was a real danger that Russia would use tactical nuclear weapons two years ago after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine faltered, CIA Director William Burns said on Saturday.

Burns, speaking in London alongside his British counterpart, Richard Moore, head of the MI6 foreign intelligence service, also said Ukraine’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk region represented a “significant tactical achievement” that undermined Russian President Vladimir Putin’s propaganda about how the war was unfolding.

Ukrainian troops crossed into Russia’s Kursk region last month with armored vehicles and aerial support, seizing land and taking prisoners of war. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told NBC News this week that Kyiv plans on holding indefinitely the territories it has seized.

Burns said the United States takes seriously the possibility of Russia resorting to nuclear weapons.

“None of us should take lightly the risks of escalation,” Burns said at a Financial Times event. “There was a moment in the fall of 2022 when I think there was a genuine risk of . . . the potential use of tactical nuclear weapons.”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: bidenswar; burns; cia; escalation; killkillkillforpeace; mic; neoconsarefools; richardmoore; tothelastukrainian; ukraine; welfarewar; williamburns; worldwariii; ww3
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For 2.5 years they told us via their media organs that there was zero chance of Russia using nukes...they just wouldn't dare.

Add this to the long litany of lies told by these corrupt, warmongering organizations.

1 posted on 09/08/2024 12:29:45 PM PDT by Mariner
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To: Mariner

Who believes what the CYA or the FIB says?


2 posted on 09/08/2024 12:31:44 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: Mariner

What about *your* constant lies for the last 2 years?

Like “Ukraine is finished”?

News flash - any country that can still capture territory from a nuclear superpower is hardly finished, LOL


3 posted on 09/08/2024 12:32:39 PM PDT by canuck_conservative (NATO - now celebrating 75 successful years of keeping the Russian monsters out!!)
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To: canuck_conservative

“Like “Ukraine is finished”?

No such quote exists.

Why would you say it does?


4 posted on 09/08/2024 12:47:15 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

I fully expect Russia to use tactical munitions before this war is over. It is part of their doctrine for ground war inside Russian territory they would rather use low yield tactical munitions vs walking away from Russian territory. If they cannot push back the Ukes they will use low yield tactical munitions over the areas occupied by the Ukes as a matter or spite. No one can tell them no it’s their territory. From that point they would consider using them over Uke contested lands too. Air burst high radiation aka neutron bombs don’t produce large fallout tails it’s all local activation products and dead humans the buildings and infrastructure remains just fine after a few weeks of decay half lives.


5 posted on 09/08/2024 12:49:34 PM PDT by GenXPolymath
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To: canuck_conservative

How many countries have taken territory from the US? Sometimes your strategy is your weakness, not your capability.


6 posted on 09/08/2024 12:55:12 PM PDT by LukeL
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To: Mariner

Well, I guess Brandon gets a Nobel Peace Prize on the way out the door, then.


7 posted on 09/08/2024 12:56:17 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Mariner

Was?


8 posted on 09/08/2024 1:04:50 PM PDT by The Free Engineer
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To: Mariner

Well, did they? I think we would have heard about that if it had happened. So I will say: No, they didn’t.

Who cares what some political hack claims he “thought or believed” two years ago...?

Will they in the future? Who tf can tell? It’s the future.


9 posted on 09/08/2024 1:08:42 PM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: Mariner

More fear mongering.


10 posted on 09/08/2024 1:39:02 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: MtnClimber

Yes, the CIA has Russian warheads that they could detonate in a false flag to blame Putin.

Maybe late October.


11 posted on 09/08/2024 1:45:46 PM PDT by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: Mariner

Well if I was the leader of Russia, I would use nuclear weapons before I lost the the war.

That’s why we should have stayed out of this war. All the money wasted., all the lives wasted. Russia is going to win this war in the end. We having bio labs there was wrong.

Biden stopping the peace agreement early on wasn’t good.


12 posted on 09/08/2024 1:46:48 PM PDT by factmart ( )
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To: Mariner

CIA Director etc started this chit, what the hell? Kamalatoe as a war time president to win in November?!*


13 posted on 09/08/2024 1:48:40 PM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: Erik Latranyi

(Maybe late October.)

Well that would be a fine October Surprise


14 posted on 09/08/2024 2:03:50 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: Erik Latranyi

The EU economy is crumbling….VW announced it is shutting its two factories, inflation, shortages, increased tax and VAT, the Euro losing value, ….there is more to War than lines on a map.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYHWxhSQfGY

Economy and factories shutting down….like Kirkovsky stated: “ As Richard Sirkovsky,Polish Foreign Minister said after the sabotage on the Nordstream 2 pipelines “ Thank you USA”….a real bunch of clowns the war cheerleaders have in charge.

The collective West is a circus.


15 posted on 09/08/2024 2:22:15 PM PDT by delta7
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To: delta7

(The collective West is a circus.)

🎪🎪🎪🎪🎪🎪

A lot of clowns 🤡🤡🤡 in office

🤡🤡🎪🎪🤡🤡🎪🎪🤡🤡🤡🎪🎪🎪🤡🤡🤡


16 posted on 09/08/2024 2:32:43 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: SaveFerris

Turkish proverb:

“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace turns into a circus.”……exhibit A: senile Joe and his war cheerleaders.


17 posted on 09/08/2024 2:54:04 PM PDT by delta7
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To: delta7

Indeed


18 posted on 09/08/2024 3:21:26 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: Mariner

Were they lying then or are they lying now?

My answer would be ‘yes’ FWIW.


19 posted on 09/08/2024 3:29:08 PM PDT by TigersEye (His son nicknamed him Pedo Pete. (mic drop))
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To: canuck_conservative

Is Putin in the room with you right now, canuck_conservative?


20 posted on 09/08/2024 3:45:26 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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