The Kremlin’s new nuclear threat says more about China and Belarus than about the danger of an unusual escalation of the conflict in Ukraine. There is nothing new under the sun, one might say, when Russian leaders claim that they will supply tactical nuclear weapons to their neighbor Belarus. They had already announced that several times since the beginning of the war. The revision of the Belarusian Constitution, which aimed to allow the deployment of nuclear weapons on national territory, in February 2022, prepared the ground for the decision. The suspension of Russia’s obligations under the New Start Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty has recently provided some atmospheric elements to the nuclear mood in the Kremlin.
It has become a kind of routine. Every time the West makes a new move to help Ukraine or when Russian troops are in trouble on the ground…
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Source: Le Figaro
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