WASHINGTON, May 1 — In rallying global arms supplies and asking Congress for US$33 billion (RM144 billion) more to support Ukraine, Washington is choosing to ignore Vladimir Putin’s threats to use nuclear arms, and instead is openly testing the Russian leader’s limits. After the United States...
WASHINGTON, May 1 — In rallying global arms supplies and asking Congress for US$33 billion more to support Ukraine, Washington is choosing to ignore Vladimir Putin’s threats to use nuclear arms, and instead is openly testing the Russian leader’s limits.
It was a thinly veiled reference to Russia’s tactical nuclear weapons, which Russian military doctrine holds can be used to force an adversary to retreat. Now, the Pentagon has shed those earlier inhibitions and is shipping offensive weapons like heavy artillery, helicopters and attack drones. “We want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can’t do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine,” US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said after a visit to Kyiv last week.Inside the US government, Putin’s nuclear threat is being shrugged off.“It shows the desperation that Russia is feeling about their abject failure in being able to do what they set out to do” in Ukraine, Biden said Wednesday.
“Its threats are taken less seriously than before and it has nothing positive to offer. It is already a diminished power,” Freedman wrote on his blog.“Moscow will not use nuclear weapons during the conflict,” said Rose.
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