Putin Says He Could Put Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Belarus by Summer

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said he would be able to position nuclear weapons in Belarus by the summer, a claim that analysts said was likely bluster but which underscored the Kremlin’s determination to use its vast nuclear arsenal to pressure the West to back down from its support of Ukraine.

Western officials condemned Mr. Putin’s remarks as irresponsible, even as they said that they saw no indication that Russia was making changes to how it deploys nuclear weapons.

Mr. Putin, in an interview released ahead of its broadcast on Russian state television on Sunday, provided new details of a plan that he first floated last year to base Russian weapons in Belarus, a close ally. He said that 10 Belarusian warplanes have already been retrofitted to carry Russian nuclear weapons, and that a storage facility for the warheads would be ready by July 1.

“The United States has been doing this for decades,” Mr. Putin said, insisting that his plan was no different from the American practice of positioning nuclear weapons in allied countries — an assertion that Western officials rejected.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putin-says-he-could-put-tactical-nuclear-weapons-in-belarus-by-summer/ar-AA195oUH

[roamer65]

1. We need to the same in Poland, Romania and Slovakia.

Not just tactical fission bombs.

Thermonuclear.

[Model35mech]

3. IMO the US needs to react to the nuclear sabre rattling or

that rattling will go on until the US is conditioned to ignore it. IMO, THAT would be extremely dangerous as it could mean we don't increase readiness to an appropriate level and we _can't react_ when it becomes necessary.

When Eygpt and Israel went to war in 1973, the US, including me and the signals intelligence unit I served in went to DefCon3. We've only been to DefCon 3 a small handful of times. It's time to think about that.

Here we sit, and we and our sworn NATO and European allies are engaging Ukraine as a significant recipient of our joint lethal support. Russia represents the ONLY LETHAL FORCE DEPLOYED AGAINST UKRAINE, and we do nothing about increasing our readiness status.

IMO we really need to send Putin a message, his bravado over nuclear weapons is going to work against him. We need to be pushing Patriot batteries to Ukraine and trustworthy eastern European NATO members (imo Hungary for example, is not one of those and Turkey is fence sitting) just as we would for Israel if Iran were making noises about missile attacks there.

Theater readiness of naval, air-force and army counter-strike forces needs to be raised to above average from Greenland to Poland and in the northern Pacific and Alaska.

The message must be sent that this nuclear brinksmanship shit isn't dismissed as a joke in the Pentagon and White House. The US stands prepared to react if Putin uses nukes of any strength.

Russia must understand it WILL lose because of its pursuit of nuclear terror as a tactic to shield its aggression.

[Lovie777]

2. This belongs with the rest of the psychos in prison..............................

[paleotn]

4. Yea, whatever, Vlad.

[Irish_Dem]

5. Putin will not stop until someone stops him.

[bluestarone]

7. AGREE! Kinda like

Someone else we all know.

[sakabatou]

6. What's his next move?

Try to put nukes in Cuba?