PREVIEW: #Putin: #Nukes: #NATO: Part of a conversation with Henry Sokolski re the fear in the Baltic States and in the eastern frontier of NATO that, once Russia conquers Ukraine, that Putin will keep going against the former Soviet states -- and that the
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| 0:22.0 | This is John Batcher speaking with my colleague Henry Sakalski, Non-Proliferation Policy Education |
| 0:27.2 | Center, about the fact that Vladimir Putin has paraded his nuclear weapons, mobile nuclear weapons in Moscow as recently as May of |
| 0:34.5 | 2023 and continually pointed to his nuclear forces as an antidote to what he says is an |
| 0:41.7 | attack by Ukraine. We also look at the fact that the |
| 0:45.2 | foreign minister of Latvia, former prime minister of Latvia, is now pointing to |
| 0:49.6 | Russia saying when they're done with Ukraine they're not going to stop they're coming for us |
| 0:54.4 | they're coming for all of us nuclear weapons and aggression by the Russian |
| 0:59.2 | Federation being entertained by not only the foreign minister of Latvia, |
| 1:06.0 | but also Peter Schroeder, writing at the foreign affairs |
| 1:11.0 | about nuclear weapons in the hands of the Russian forces, arguing that |
| 1:17.1 | Russia is not likely to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, but is likely to use nuclear weapons if and when it tangles with NATO. |
| 1:26.0 | I speak to Henry Sakowski about his opinion of the likelihood of nuclear weapons being |
| 1:32.0 | used after Ukraine is conquered. |
| 1:35.2 | Not before, not during, but afterwards. |
| 1:37.8 | Here's Henry's response. |
| 1:39.2 | The general idea that Russia is a threat to the politics is the reason the politics became members of NATO. |
| 1:48.0 | It is not news. They're more worried now, I think, because they realize that Putin's popularity and legitimacy |
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