Western nuclear blackmail is the last card up Putin’s sleeve, so the stakes are up.
Vladimir Putin announced his intention to install nuclear weapons in Belarus, alarming the entire world. What is the essence of the Russian dictator’s nuclear rhetoric?
Putin’s arguments
According to Putin, the deployment of nuclear weapons in Belarus will be done without violating the nuclear non-proliferation regime: Minsk will not accept control over nuclear charges.
At the same time, according to Putin, Russia has already helped convert 10 Belarusian military aircraft to use tactical nuclear weapons and handed over the Minsk Iskander missile system that can carry such charges. The Russian President added that the construction of a storage facility for tactical nuclear weapons will be completed on the territory of Belarus on July 1. The training of the Iskander crew should begin on April 3.
According to Putin, allegedly “the reason is the statement of the Deputy Minister of Defense of Great Britain that they will supply shells to Ukraine with depleted uranium.”
But Russia has also depleted uranium shells, and such shells are designed to combat heavy equipment and have nothing to do with nuclear weapons.
“But even outside the context of these events, Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko has long raised the question of deploying Russian tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus,” Putin said.
Speaking about the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, Putin was referring to the actions of the United States.
The Americans actually store a number of free-falling nuclear bombs in European arsenals located in Turkey and Western Europe. Their partners cannot use them without the permission of the US military – it is purely technically impossible.
However, unlike Russia, the United States is not participating in a large and bloody war on the European continent, and is not using these weapons as an argument in a political confrontation with the Russians.
The world’s reaction
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has asked to convene an extraordinary meeting of the UN Security Council due to Russia’s plans. The department called Russia’s latest statements “a provocative step by the criminal Putin regime, which undermines the foundations of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the architecture of nuclear disarmament and the international security system in total.” The Kyiv official said it expects effective action to counter the Kremlin’s nuclear blackmail by the UK, China, US and France, including as permanent members of the UN Security Council.
The European Union is ready to impose sanctions due to the deployment of Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus. In China, commenting on the statement of the Russian Federation on the deployment of nuclear weapons in Belarus, they said that strategic risks must be reduced, and that no one can win nuclear wars.
Arguments run out
Russia is losing the front in Ukraine, and the West is not paying attention to the ongoing talks about nuclear weapons, experts say.
“There are no more arguments, so we have to raise the stakes. It was done by Putin himself, it was done by his henchman Medvedev, who is just choking on saliva and shouting all the time about nuclear war as the only way to solve all problems. To me, this is another attempt to neutralize the sane people in the West on this nuclear threat, to say “look, we can do that.” Although military experts, who look at the situation professionally, clearly and unequivocally say that this will not happen, because this step will mean, first of all, the end of the people who will take it, “believes the Ukrainian diplomat that Volodymyr Ohryzko.
Source: korrespondent
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