Medvedev threatens to 'defend' annexed territories in Ukraine with "strategic nuclear weapons".

[speak easy]

Ukraine live briefing: Russia vows to defend annexed territories

Russia’s military resources, including “strategic nuclear weapons,” can be used to defend annexed territories in Ukraine including Crimea, Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of the Russian Security Council, said Thursday. Further details have emerged regarding Wednesday’s elaborate prisoner exchange between Moscow and Kyiv, in which nearly 300 people were released, including leaders of Ukraine’s Azov Regiment and a pro-Kremlin politician.

Russian and U.S. diplomats, meanwhile, are facing off over war crimes accusations at a U.N. Security Council meeting, following a day of addresses by world leaders. In the opening minutes of Thursday’s meeting, U.N. Secretary General António Guterres called Moscow’s plan to stage annexation referendums in occupied areas of Ukraine a “violation of the U.N. charter,” a charge that President Biden also leveled in his speech Wednesday to the General Assembly. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday that Russia’s withdrawal from the Ukrainian cities of Izyum and Bucha revealed gruesome torture and murder of Ukrainian civilians that could not be dismissed as the actions of a few bad actors.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/22/russia-ukraine-war-latest-updates/

"strategic nuclear weapons” ? As in vaporizing cities with massive fallout? Not even China would support that. Bald bluff.

[Walleye]

1. I hope they cry when we peel off the onion tops on the Kremlin

I’m sure we have missiles already aimed right at it. Putin wants a legacy, how about the destruction of Moscow

[speak easy]

2. The one thing Russia has war-gamed is a first strike ,

contraindicated.

[Walleye]

3. Let's hope so. The nightmares of my childhood are coming back

I was living close to a major Air Force Base during the Cuban missile crisis

[tblue37]

9. I was living on an AFB, and my father was sent down to Florida during the crisis.

We were at Seymour Johnson AFB IN North Carolina, and most of the kids at school also had fathers that were rushed to Florida, so none of us could concentrate on anything we were being taught, and frankly, neither could the teachers, many of whom had husbands sent to Florida as well.

[Walleye]

10. Wow you really do have close experience with a Russian nuclear threat

[tblue37]

12. Yeah, just thinking about how scared we were has me a bit shaky.

[Walleye]

13. Same here. I was glued to coverage of that. I never cared for the Russians ever since

[2naSalit]

18. Right there with you.

My dad was in the NAVY VPs, the subchasers who followed those missiles from Russia to Cuba and he moved us all from safe NAS Brunswick to Boca Chica (not sure which branch it belonged to) for the crisis. Lived in Key West until it was over then went back to Brunswick, ME. I started grade school there and was set back a grade when I got to Maine because FL schools had no kindergarten and first grade in northeast schools was further advanced. I did fine once i got going in the northern schools until high school.

It was a evry tense time, I had nightmares about it back then. Now I do once in a while with the new threats, it makes me rather tense all the time.

[niyad]

14. I lived practically next door to NORAD. I could see the blast doors from my

yard. So many military kids in my school. Nervous does not begin to cover it.

[Walleye]

15. I think we all have a little PTSD about that.

[droidamus2]

4. Two problems I see

One, isn't Russia to the east of the Ukraine so if you nuke the Ukraine the fallout ends up over Russia and maybe Chine which I am sure they wouldn't be really happy about. Two, how do you save somebody by nuking them? Sounds like doublespeak to me.

[Silent3]

6. Russia would nuke Kyiv or somewhere else outside of the Donbas

Claiming that they were attacking military assets that enable Ukraine to threaten Russia's possession of the region.

Obviously, the move would really be to terrorize Ukraine into submission, however.

[speak easy]

8. Not Kiev, the ancient capital of Kievan Rus,

and where all the embassies are. More like a demonstration on Snake Island.

[Walleye]

11. Does Putin really think we wouldn't retaliate big time?

We have a huge arsenal. As you can tell by our budget every year

[Silent3]

16. Putin is desperate, I'm not sure he's even sane any more

Putin might just gamble on seeing if he can get away with a small tactical nuke to start with, and hope that the rest of the world is too scared to risk escalating from there.

[PortTack]

17. Exactly..doesn't matter where they drop it, prevailing winds would carry fallout right over Moscow

[Initech]

5. I don't wish death on a lot of people...

But the sooner Putin and Medvedev get the Osama treatment the better!

[speak easy]

7. Yes. Time for the inner circle to act.