Vladimir Putin has considered to launch a nuclear strike on Ukraine and Beijing has warned Moscow against this.
Speaking to the Financial Times the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Washington was “very concerned” as Putin was seriously considering using a nuclear weapon to win the war in Ukraine.
Blinken said, “Even if the probability went from 5 to 15%, when it comes to nuclear weapons, nothing is more serious.”
Blinken said that the US has no reason to disbelieve that China reached out to Moscow saying, “Don’t go there.”
Some Western politicians believe that in October 2022 Putin was close to ordering a nuclear strike on Ukraine.
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Last November Putin placed the Satan II intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on “combat duty” which can carry 16 nuclear warheads and has a range of 11,000 miles.
This comes after Putin approved a new nuclear doctrine which implies a nuclear strike could happen if there is “aggression against the Russian Federation and its allies by a non-nuclear state with the support of a nuclear state” using massive aerial non-nuclear attacks such as using drones.
Putin will now consider aggression by a non-nuclear state as a joint attack by the West if it is supported and the strike has been with the participation of a nuclear armed country.
Putin has said that Russia does not need a preventative strike in their nuclear deterrence policy “because, in a retaliatory strike, the enemy will be guaranteed to be destroyed.
In September 2024 the Russian Foreign Minister told Putin that Russia’s nuclear weapons are in “full combat readiness.”
Sergie Lavrov who is Putin’s right-hand man said this will have “serious” implications for Kyiv’s “handlers” which is a warning to Ukraine’s Western allies.
Lavrov said, “We talk about red lines, expecting our assessments, statements will be heard by intelligent, decision-making people.
“It is not serious to say that if tomorrow you do not do what I demand of you, we will press the ‘red button.”
