VT: Sourced from Russian state-controlled media
RT: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin placed Russia’s deterrence forces – including nuclear weapons – on high alert in response to statements by British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss on the potential conflict between NATO and Moscow.
“Statements were made by various representatives at various levels on possible altercations or even collisions and clashes between NATO and Russia,” Peskov told reporters. “We believe that such statements are absolutely unacceptable. I would not call the authors of these statements by name, although it was the British foreign minister.”
Speaking to Sky News on Sunday, Truss said that “if we don’t stop Putin in Ukraine, we are going to see others under threat: the Baltics, Poland, Moldova, and it could end up in a conflict with NATO. We do not want to go there.” Truss did not specify how the UK could “stop” Russia in Ukraine, although the British government has already sent anti-tank weapons and other “lethal aid” to Kiev.
However, a Foreign Office source told the BBC on Monday: “I don’t think anything Liz has said warrants that sort of rhetoric or escalation,” adding that Truss has always spoken of NATO – which was formed with the explicit goal of opposing the Soviet Union – as a “defensive alliance.”
While Putin’s announcement does not signal any intent to use nuclear weapons, it has been received in the West as a reminder of the importance Moscow places on Ukraine, and its determination to keep the country out of NATO. Since the end of the Cold War, successive Russian leaders have consistently opposed the eastward expansion of the alliance, and Moscow considers the idea of a NATO-armed Ukraine on its borders an existential security threat.
In Washington, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki condemned Putin’s decision to raise the alert level, accusing the Russian president of “manufacturing threats that don’t exist in order to justify further aggression.”
Meanwhile, in Ukraine, Russia’s operation is still underway, and fighting has taken place in the cities of Kharkov, Mariupol, and on the outskirts of Kiev. Tentative negotiations between Ukrainian and Russian officials took place in Belarus on Monday.
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Where did “Great” Britain find such a dingbat ? Then again that seems to be the normal starting with Bojo.
We need nuclear armed countries to be more level headed, and the greatest threat from nuclear boils down to emotional control of the one with the button. Going to the nuke card was a mistake. The US needs to step further back and observe. Compare Europe/ME to South America,….why so violent ? Who are the savages ?
Many American males (and more females) are up late at night stroking their legally purchased weapons with one hand and jerking off with the other. Who you callin’ violent, white boy?
When Jen Psaki say… “manufacturing threats that don’t exist in order to justify further aggression” …she is regarding her own country ???
She is a stupid cow. Whoops, there I go insulting cows again.
This war is driving Russia and China ever closer. In the long run, that will be a good thing. In the short run, the Anglo-Zionist Empire will never willingly back down. There’s always the Samson Option, nukes prepositioned by Israel in all European and American major cities. May Heaven preserve us all from the wrath of the chosenites.
You send lethal weapons to the enemy of any adversary, you are that enemy.
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