World War III looms larger as a real possibility today, following a threat delivered by one of Vladimir Putinâs closest allies. Following UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson dismissing the threat of nuclear weapons being used, Former deputy prime minister and head of Putinâs presidential administration, Vyacheslav Volodin said: (via GB News)
âIf Washington and NATO countries supply weapons that will be used to strike civilian cities and attempt to seize our territories, as they threaten, this will lead to retaliatory measures using more powerful weapons,"
In a Telegram message he continued: âArguments that the nuclear powers have not previously used weapons of mass destruction in local conflicts are untenable. Because these states did not face a situation where there was a threat to the security of their citizens and the territorial integrity of the country."
He added "Deliveries of offensive weapons to the Kyiv regime will lead to a global catastropheâ.
Russia did invade Ukraine and has grabbed territory and incorporated it into Russia, and yes we tend to frown on that (although it is the way that the world has worked forever, including the assembling of the territory that the United States consists of today. But the closer you look at the events that led to the current situation, the cloudier the calculus if the rights and wrongs becomes. The US pretty openly engineered the destruction of a democratically elected pro-Russia government in Kyiv in the 2014 âMaidan Revolution,â and provoked Russia with the threat to bring Ukraine into NATO.