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I'm a Putin speaking on Victory Day in Moscow, about the threat he believes is presented by

NATO right now.

He quotes, we know what the exorbitance of such ambitions leads to.

Russia will do everything to prevent a global clash, but at the same time we will not allow anyone to threaten us. Our strategic forces are

always in a state of combat readiness. Immediately correspondence for Reuters went to the United States and asked about those

strategic forces, aka the nukes.

Commented US Air Force Major General Patrick Ryder for the Pentagon.

We've not seen any change in their Russia's strategic force posture.

Obviously, we continue to monitor. Nuclear weapons on Victory Day.

I welcome Henry Sikalski, the Executive Director of the Non-Reliferation policy education center, we'd say that

Mr. Putin is an example of proliferation, except that he's talking about using a

nuclear weapon in the event, and therein lies the puzzle that NATO enters the contest in some

fashion against Russia in the part of Ukraine that used to be Russia.

Henry, a very good evening to you.

One more time, Vladimir Putin brings out his strategic forces

to assure the people a vast audience to Victory Day, the parade at

mosque in Red Square, to assure them that Russia is well defended and will not

fail if and when NATO comes the way Napoleon came in 1812 the way the

Hitlerized came in 1941 42 he's telling the public we've very carefully prepared our defenses. We will not be

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