President Vladimir Putin warned Wednesday that Russia could provide long-range weapons to others to strike Western targets in response to NATO allies allowing Ukraine to use their arms to attack Russian territory.
Putin also reaffirmed Moscow’s readiness to use nuclear weapons if it sees a threat to its sovereignty.
The recent actions by the West will further undermine international security and could lead to “very serious problems,” he said, taking questions from international journalists — something that has become extremely rare since Moscow sent troops into Ukraine.
“That would mark their direct involvement in the war against the Russian Federation, and we reserve the right to act the same way,” Putin added.
Others? What others? Who’s going to just start shooting missiles at NATO countries? That’d be a very short war for whoever that is.
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Uuuh, Belarus? XDDD
Quick proxy war in belaus followed by them joining nato
No one would even set foot there. NATO would just bombard them with missiles for a month until their government collapsed. Russia wouldn’t though. It likes it’s little border fief.
No they wouldn’t. Think of Israel! The press!
ISIS? Hamas? any number of such organizations would happily use some mass murdering weapons if given access to them. Putin has shown that he doesn’t care about what happens to russian citizens if he can win something out of their suffering so empowering terrorist organizations to harm people, even russians, is not a big price to pay to make his point
What a cry baby bitch, Russia has already been sourcing weapons from North Korea and Iran, Ukraine is just gettin better stuff from the collective west. If he would allow other aligned nations to strike western targets from their territories with Russian weapons I fail to see how basically all of NATO would not see that as fair game to strike from their own territories. Seems like a massive escalation Russia and anyone who went along with it would not want.
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Yeah, you nailed it. He is just setting the tone for his propaganda networks to amplify.
The biggest part is making sure people believe that NATO is trying to start a war with Russia. Since NATO was originally formed to protect against Russian aggression, it’s easy to paint NATO countries as aggressors.
The Russian message is consistent: They are the victims and all additional messaging revolves around that.
Russia could do that. But, they are kinda busy trying to keep up with demand from their own forces. And that’s only going to get worse as they run out of mothballed Soviet shitboxes to reactivate.
They have to heavily rely on Iranian made drones, I doubt they want to share those.
Saber rattling.
the only reason this is scary is that at some point some idiot is going to call putin on it, and then everyone’s gonna have to get involved.
Growing up, one thing I learned about dog piles? it sucks being the one on the bottom, and there ain’t no football in war.
And no ref
Cool story blyat.
Imagine what would have happened if Soviet-made MiGs were used against Americans in Korea and Vietnam.
Some of those came paired with Soviet pilots too!
Do it.
See what happens.
Putin: I ain’t scared of the West, I could kick their ass any day, I just don’t feel like it right now, but be careful
Also Putin, whenever a country near him wants to join NATO, i.e. he’d be picking a fight with the West if he attacked them: Reeeeeeeeeeee
This cuck pretends he does not understand that nobody wants to invade/conquer Russia, we just want his genocidal troops to gtfo Ukraine.
Yaaaawn. A joke doesnt get better if you tell it over and over again Vladimir
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They don’t have the money to maintain their nukes, so we know they’re likely all junk. They’re getting their asses kicked by Ukraine. Their equipment is outdated and junk. They’re not sending shit anywhere because they don’t have the shit to send. At this point Russia is as big of a joke as the republikkklown party.
Keeps reminding me of this South Park scene:
“Hey, hey, hey, 'member the Cold War?” “Ooh, I love the Cold War, that was fantastic!”
Getting inspired by Iran’s support for the Houthis I see.
He could do that, sure.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The United States and Germany recently authorized Ukraine to hit some targets on Russian soil with the long-range weapons they are supplying to Kyiv.
Putin claimed that using some Western-supplied weapons involves military personnel of those countries controlling the missiles and selecting targets, and therefore he said Moscow could take “asymmetrical” steps elsewhere in the world.
Putin also said Trump’s felony conviction at his hush money trial last week was the result of “the use of the court system as part of the internal political struggle.”
Asked about Russian military losses, Putin said that no country would reveal that information during hostilities but claimed without providing details that Ukraine’s casualties are five times greater than Russia’s.
Asked by AP about the case of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, Putin said the U.S. is “taking energetic steps” to secure his release.
Last year, journalists from countries that Russia regards as unfriendly — including the U.S., the U.K. and the European Union — were not invited, and Western officials and investors also steered clear of the session after wide-ranging sanctions were imposed on Moscow over Ukraine.
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