World News @lemmy.ml Wilshire @beehaw.org 1y ago

Putin says Russian tactical nuclear weapons to be deployed to Belarus next month

apnews.com Putin says Russian tactical nuclear weapons to be deployed to Belarus next month

Russian President Vladimir Putin says that Moscow will deploy some of its tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus next month, a move that the Belarusian opposition described as an attempt to blackmail the West. Putin said during Friday's meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko that work o...

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"Nooooo, we are the only ones who can have nukes in puppet states all around the globe, nooooooooooo!"

~A liberal
- Name one example....
  
  UK, France and Israel. Previously the US had nuclear weapons stationed in Japan and South Korea.
  
  Israel 😬
  
  Germany has us nukes. Not that we are a puppet state, but it is undeniable that the US has stationed them in bases around the world.
  
  https://www.cfr.org/in-brief/nuclear-weapons-europe-mapping-us-and-russian-deployments
- Nooo, literally no one should have nukes
  
  -me
- As a German, I would say that the degree of "puppetishness" is a little different from that in Belarus.
Putin mentions nukes every 2 weeks. We've been habituated by his frequent mention of nukes. I won't bat an eye until one actually goes off, for which I'm sure there are already plans in place to address by multiple countries, to include non-Western ones. Putin's wanna be mind games are a broken record. I'm excited for when this guy is no longer in the news.
- I hope the west is prepared, we're looking a little dog-bites-tail on the coordinated front.
The puppet state of Belarus is going to join Russia in its collapse.
- if that alagations are true, that thats the most likely thing to happen.
Really doesn't mean much. Everywhere is already in range.
So, a guy I see interviewed on YouTube claims to be an ex-cia agent. He said he was basically a James Bond kind of agent. I always doubt these kinds of people.

Anyway, he was saying that Russia will give nukes to belarus and possibly have Belarus’s launch the nuke to Ukraine or Poland.

After that who does nato retaliate against? Belarus? Russia?

So if he is correct, then Belarus may be launching nukes.
- The main purpose of nuclear weapons is nuclear deterrence, not launching them. Belarus being next to NATO's occupying forces makes it a highly likely target for a NATO invasion, this secures some stability in the region from Russia's perspective.

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