While China’s intervention in the war in Ukraine frightens the WestRussian President Vladimir Putin is once again scaring and raising international concerns about escalating the conflict and using tactical nuclear weapons.
THE Putin announced yesterday that his country will further strengthen its nuclear arsenal and mass production of hypersonic missiles will begin, ahead of today’s holiday of the Russian armed forces. In his speech on “Defenders of the Fatherland Day”, the Kremlin strongman said that this year the first Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile launch systems (also known in the West as “Satan 2”) will be deployed.
At the same time, we will continue mass production of Kinzhal hypersonic surface-to-air missiles and start mass production of Zircon anti-ship hypersonic missiles,” Putin said.
Earlier yesterday, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov assured that Russia’s decision to suspend its participation in the New START nuclear arms control treaty “doesn’t bring us closer to a nuclear war.”
Biden: Putin’s “big mistake” suspending Russia’s participation in the New START treaty
At the same time, the president of the USA Joe Biden he said in an interview he gave to the ABC television network that is not taking Vladimir Putin’s decision to temporarily suspend Russia’s participation in the New START treaty as a sign that the Kremlin strongman is considering the use of nuclear weapons, although he called it a “big mistake.”
“It’s a big mistake to do that. Not very responsible. But I don’t take that as an indication that he’s thinking about using nuclear weapons,” the US president told reporter David Muir.
The same characterization (s.b. “big mistake”) was used yesterday Wednesday by the US president during the meeting he had with the leaders of the “Bucharest Nine” (nine Eastern European countries that are members of NATO) in Warsaw. He reiterated that he would defend “every inch of NATO territory”, trying to reassure the NATO allies in the eastern wing after the development.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Tuesday the suspension of his country’s participation in the New START treaty with the US to limit nuclear weapons. The treaty provides for a cap on the number of nuclear weapons each country develops, as well as inspections of nuclear facilities.
German press: Risk of escalation in Ukraine
Yesterday the German press was commenting on Putin’s lengthy speech to the Russian people on Tuesday, where he announced, among other things, the unilateral suspension of the nuclear disarmament agreement. “The president of Russia once again distorts reality and […] until now, this narrative of his is indispensable,” Süddeutsche Zeitung commented. “In a year, Russia will elect a president again, without a real election of course, and this speech looks like the beginning of a long campaign to consolidate his almost unlimited power. […] If Putin is to be believed, the country isn’t doing so badly: record harvests, huge wheat exports, new trade corridors to India and Southeast Asia, and an end to the economic chaos of the 1990s that Western advisers were supposed to have led to the then Russia. It’s simple: Russia has broken with the West».
On the other hand, in a speech in Warsaw, US President Joe Biden raised Ukraine’s victory as a matter of principle for Western democracies. “Putin may also take the way Biden referred to Moldova as a warning,” observed RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland, according to Deutsche Welle. He stated that “we” are proud and that “we” also defend the freedom of the Republic of Moldova, even though it is not a NATO member state. In this case, “we” refers to the Western allies, as well as all the states of the U.N. who spoke out against the Russian war of aggression. Thus, that day came to an end, with not a shred of hope for a ceasefire or peace. On the contrary, on the eve of the anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia and the West are on the verge of a further escalation of the war.
Source: News Beast
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