Russia warn the USA of nuclear war if it is defeated in Ukraine
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Russia through President Putin's ally Medvedev warns the USA of nuclear war if it is defeated in Ukraine
Russia through President Putin’s ally Medvedev warns the USA of nuclear war if it is defeated in Ukraine.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, an ally of Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin, warned the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) today that the defeat of Russia in Ukraine could trigger a nuclear war.
Medvedev, 57, who once presented himself as a reformer who was ready to work with the United States to liberalize Russia, has recast himself since the war as the most publicly hawkish member of Putin’s circle.
“The defeat of a nuclear power in a conventional war may trigger a nuclear war,” Medvedev, who serves as deputy chairman of Putin’s powerful security council, said in a post on Telegram.
“Nuclear powers have never lost major conflicts on which their fate depends,” said Medvedev, who served as president from 2008 to 2012.
Medvedev said Nato and other defence leaders, due to meet at Ramstein Air Base in Germany on Friday to talk about strategy and support for the West’s attempt to defeat Russia in Ukraine, should think about the risks of their policy.
Nearly 90% of the world’s nuclear warheads are held by Russia and the United States (USA), who are by far the two biggest nuclear powers.
Putin has the final say in whether or not to deploy nuclear weapons.
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While Nato has a military edge over Russia in terms of conventional force, Russia has a nuclear advantage over the alliance in Europe.
Putin casts Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine as an existential battle with an aggressive and arrogant West and has said that Russia will use all available means to protect itself and its people against any aggressor.
Russia’s February 24 invasion of Ukraine has triggered the biggest confrontation between Moscow and the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
The United States and its allies have condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as an imperial land grab, while Ukraine has vowed to fight until the last Russian soldier is ejected from its territory.
Since a grim New Year’s Eve message describing the West as Russia’s true enemy in the war on Ukraine, Putin has sent several signals that Russia will not back down.
He has despatched hypersonic missiles to the Atlantic and appointed his top general to run the war.
Russia’s nuclear doctrine allows for a nuclear strike after “aggression against the Russian Federation with conventional weapons when the very existence of the state is threatened”.
Meanwhile, Washington has not detailed what it would do if Putin ordered what would be the first use of nuclear weapons in war since the United States unleashed the first atomic bomb attacks on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
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