Die USA haben Indien und China um Hilfe gebeten, um zu verhindern, dass Russland im Jahr 2022 einen Atomangriff durchführt, heißt es in einem Bericht
by curiousstrider
Die USA haben Indien und China um Hilfe gebeten, um zu verhindern, dass Russland im Jahr 2022 einen Atomangriff durchführt, heißt es in einem Bericht
by curiousstrider
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What happens if Russia nukes The Ukraine?
>The official said their assessment was that input from the likes of India, China, and others “may have had some effect” on Russia’s thinking.
>. The US sought the help of non-allies to try to dissuade Russia from carrying out a nuclear strike in 2022.
>. The US feared a Ukrainian counteroffensive against Kherson could trigger Putin.
>. US officials told CNN that input from India and China may have had an effect on Russia’s thinking.
>The US asked non-allies for help in an attempt to dissuade Russia from carrying out a nuclear strike in 2022, a senior US administration official told CNN.
>”One of the things we did was not only message them directly but strongly urge, press, encourage other countries, to whom they might be more attentive, to do the same thing,” they said, per the report.
>The official said their assessment was that input from the likes of India, China, and others “may have had some effect” on Russia’s thinking.
>”The concern from key countries for Russia and the Global South, was also a helpful, persuasive factor and showed them what the cost of all this could be,” another US official told the outlet.
Xi/Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Sergei Guneyev/AFP via Getty Images
>Worries that Putin might resort to using nuclear weapons spread in 2022 after Russian forces faced a series of defeats and Ukraine launched a counteroffensive against the prized city of Kherson in southern Ukraine.
>”If significant numbers of Russian forces were overrun — if their lives were shattered as such — that was a sort of precursor to a potential threat directly to Russian territory or the Russian state,” one of the senior officials said.
>And the Biden administration feared that this might trigger Putin to use nuclear weapons as a deterrent to avoid further losses, as he viewed the captured town of Kherson as part of Russia itself, per the CNN report.
Russia’s ‘dirty bomb’ claim
>In October 2022, Russian propagandists also began circulating a story suggesting that Ukraine was planning to use a “dirty bomb,” a device containing both radioactive material and regular explosives.
>Sergei Shoigu, Russia’s defense minister, put the claim to the US and a number of its allies.
sergei shoigu
Russian Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu. Contributor/Getty Images
>”Russian public messaging came way out of the left field on the potential for Ukraine to use a dirty bomb, which we saw not grounded in reality,” one of the administration officials said.
>But they added that there were fears Russia was making the claims as “a pretext for them to do something crazy or as a cover for something they themselves were looking at doing.”
>The Institute for the Study of War think tank said at the time that the move “likely sought to slow or suspend Western military aid” and “possibly weaken the NATO alliance in scare-mongering calls.”
>Nevertheless, one official said, “the risk level seemed to be going up, beyond where it had been at any other point in time.”
>In June 2023, President Joe Biden said Russia’s nuclear threat remained “real” following the news that Russia had moved nuclear weapons into neighboring Belarus.
>Last month, Putin made some of his most explicit nuclear threats so far after French President Emmanuel Macron suggested NATO could send troops to aid Ukraine — despite the idea being rejected by the US and other NATO allies.
>”(Western nations) must realise that we also have weapons that can hit targets on their territory,” he said, per Reuters. “All this really threatens a conflict with the use of nuclear weapons and the destruction of civilisation. Don’t they get that?”
Putin will Putin. Not sure anyone has influence over him.
It won’t happen, period. Putin is afraid of his own shadow. This guy uses a 20 foot table to talk to his own people. He will never do anything, that remotely could harm him is any way. Using nukes will put another nuke in his head in mins. I’m very convinced he doesn’t want to be in that situation.
Why these fucking old geezers in the world wanna see the world burn amazes me. Bah… Cowards, all of them
We know that China warned Putin that they would not tolerate any sort of nuclear attack (including any ‘accidents’ at a nuclear power plant). Maybe that had a real impact.
If they was that concerned for
Kherson, what are they going to be like when its Crimeas turn.
Makes sense. When you’re looking for a peaceful solution but the other guy only understands getting punched, talking to his friends is a useful strategy.
The world needs to put their drunk uncle Russia in check. He’s ruined too many lives with his inane bullshit.
Punt Putin.
I’m just going to say… bullshit. No one had to convince Russia not to go nuclear… because the outlines of what happens with nuclear weapons have been clear since the 50s. They knew damn well that NATO and pretty much the world would see it as… WWIII. Pretending otherwise is what’s dangerous. Because you’re going to start creating a narrative where supposedly just a “lil strike” is ok.
As always. You launch a nuke anywhere outside your country. It’s over. This was likely Putin hoping for the narrative of “I’m crazy! I’ll do it!” in the hopes his constant threats are being taken more seriously. Even though we’ve already crossed quite a few of his red lines. Proving he is in fact… not insane.
Just hurry up and die you fucking dobby looking pin dick shitarse.
International pressure kept nuclear war off the table for years. Nobody wants the taboo broken. It was right to ask.
Yall bash POTUS for simple mistakes when he’s dealing with this shit in the background.
The fact that this is a Biden administration triumph is barely mentioned. It’s a lot of “the US asked” while, really, it’s Biden appointee led state department and other arms of the executive branch.