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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Add this to the long litany of lies told by these corrupt, warmongering organizations.
Who believes what the CYA or the FIB says?
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
“Like “Ukraine is finished”?
No such quote exists.
Why would you say it does?
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.
How many countries have taken territory from the US? Sometimes your strategy is your weakness, not your capability.
Well, I guess Brandon gets a Nobel Peace Prize on the way out the door, then.
Was?
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.
More fear mongering.
Yes, the CIA has Russian warheads that they could detonate in a false flag to blame Putin.
Maybe late October.
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.
CIA Director etc started this chit, what the hell? Kamalatoe as a war time president to win in November?!*
(Maybe late October.)
Well that would be a fine October Surprise
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.
(The collective West is a circus.)
🎪🎪🎪🎪🎪🎪
A lot of clowns 🤡🤡🤡 in office
🤡🤡🎪🎪🤡🤡🎪🎪🤡🤡🤡🎪🎪🎪🤡🤡🤡
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.
Indeed
Were they lying then or are they lying now?
My answer would be ‘yes’ FWIW.
Is Putin in the room with you right now, canuck_conservative?
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