Ramon Perez-Maura Putin will use nuclear weapons - Ripene Skip to content Ramon Perez-Maura Putin will use nuclear weapons September 22, 2022 by Ripene On August 21, he wrote a column in these pages entitled “You have to think like Stalin”, about the war in Ukraine, and stated that things were going badly for Putin. “…And then there is morale. The number of Russians who try not to serve his fatherland in this war is very high ». And he pointed to the successes that the Ukrainians were beginning to achieve in the unequal war they have been waging against Russia since February 24. Confrontation that actually started in 2014, when Putin occupied Crimea and the West looked the other way. Just like he did when Hitler occupied the Sudetenland. In the always interesting comments that readers make to the columnists and to the information in El Debate, that day I received a smack like few times. The one of the octopus multiplied. But it seems that I fell short in saying that the number of Russians who try not to serve their motherland is high. Yesterday, the sale of plane tickets to leave the country was almost sold out after the call for a partial levy that the Defense Minister estimated at 300,000 people. And for those who are called up and do not join, the expected penalty is two to three years in prison and not precisely in the Black Sea. In anticipation of these difficulties, Putin has also offered Russian nationality to mercenaries who want to join the Russian Army. In this war in which Russia was doing so well and Ukraine so badly, Russia says it has made a tactical withdrawal. It must be the strangest tactical withdrawal in history, as they have left behind heavy weapons, including tanks, light weapons and large amounts of ammunition. All this at the disposal of the enemy. If that’s a tactical retreat, how would you describe a rout? Of course, with Soviet language – which is what Putin uses – in Ukraine everything is going according to plan. That must have been a very strange forecast. And now, between Friday the 23rd and Tuesday the 27th of this month, we are going to encounter the mounting of fake referendums to ask for the annexation to Russia of Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaporiyia and Jershon. Referendums organized by the same Putin who helped Puigdemont and his mount October 1, 2017 in Catalonia. And with the unquestioned false victory of the supporters of annexation, Putin will declare these territories part of Russia. On May 8, Archduke Charles of Austria published an article in El Debate entitled “It’s the values, imbecile!” in which he anticipated that Russia will end up resorting to the use of nuclear weapons: «Russian military doctrine is very clear regarding the use of nuclear, biological or chemical (NBC) weapons. Russia never had any qualms about using chemical weapons, whether in Chechnya or Syria, if it served its purposes. In Russian doctrine, tactical nuclear weapons are described as ‘de-escalation weapons’, meaning they are used to stun the adversary to the point where he agrees to de-escalate. This extremely perverse argument did not pan out, because Syria, Georgia, and Chechnya did not offer adequate targets for tactical nuclear devices, that is, the necessary density of soldiers and high-tech material in a small space. The situation in Ukraine is totally different, and well-informed observers are just waiting for CBRN weapons to be used; they wonder not if it will happen, but when. That is why the argument that we should not put pressure on Putin, since we could push him to use weapons of mass destruction, goes in a completely wrong direction. The decision is already in his doctrine, and if the Russians want a trigger for some action, they have never been deprived of producing or faking it themselves ». That is exactly what is going to happen these days with the so-called annexation: any attack by Ukraine on that territory unilaterally incorporated into Russia can be used by Moscow to justify the use of nuclear weapons according to current military doctrine. I am afraid that the question is no longer whether Putin will use nuclear weapons. In his speech early Wednesday morning he has already warned that he can do it. And this is like when he had his troops on maneuvers on the Ukrainian border and some didn’t want to believe that he would actually invade. Can’t say it more clearly. Source link Recent Posts Everyone Gives Herschel Walker a Pass on Abortion Scandal During Georgia Senate Debate Raphael Warnock- Ripene CFTC Commissioner to Pitch Retail Investor Definition to Get Set for Crypto-Crypto She-Hulk’s Finale Does a Disservice to Jennifer Walters’ Journey Janet Mills says Maine could propose federal law changes to ‘unclaw’ hold on lobster fishery Classic Tetris is at a crucial crossroads.