Russia should clearly express its readiness to use nuclear weapons against countries that support NATO’s aggression in Ukraine, Sergey Karaganov, an influential political scientist who heads the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy and exerts pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin, said in an interview with Magazine. to take a more decisive nuclear stance towards the West.
– Moscow could launch a limited nuclear attack on a NATO country without starting an all-out nuclear war. The United States of America lied when they told their allies that they guaranteed them nuclear protection… All our current and future enemies must be sure that Russia is ready to use nuclear weapons – he added.
Karaganov made these dangerous threats a few weeks after Ukraine seized part of Russia’s Kursk region.
– We have the right to respond with a nuclear strike to all mass attacks on our territory. This also applies to any seizure of our territory – he said, as reported by Euractiv.
His ominous statements, which clearly outline Russia’s thinking on foreign, defense and nuclear policy, are closely watched by Western security experts. Although Karaganov’s words do not represent official Russian policy, the Kremlin has repeatedly allowed him to directly influence President Putin.
Let us remind you that it was Karaganov who called for more than a year to change the Russian nuclear doctrine, which Moscow has now said it will revise. And according to the current one, Russia would be ready to use nuclear weapons in response to a nuclear attack by another country or a conventional attack that would threaten the existence of the state.
– This doctrine is irresponsible and even suicidal because it is unable to adequately deter Russia’s enemies and make them believe that there are hardly any circumstances in which Moscow would use nuclear weapons – concluded Karaganov.
Sergei Karaganov speaks about Poland.
He is one of the most important Russian ideologists. And if Poland makes him so mad that is a good sign – that means that he understands that Russia can do nothing. pic.twitter.com/pLWhtulbO4
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