Putin’s “nuclear blackmail”
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The Times
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🗓️ 22 November 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
The decision by the US to allow Ukraine to launch western long-range missiles into Russia has provoked a furious reaction from Moscow, and pushed tensions with Ukraine’s western backers even higher. In response, the Kremlin has updated its military doctrine to lower the threshold for using nuclear weapons, provoking fears of a new Cold War, or even a nuclear confrontation. How worried should we be?
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| 1:24.5 | I'm Manvine Rana. |
| 1:33.0 | It's not often that you wake up, turn on the radio to catch up on the news and then stop, because what you're hearing is a direct threat to you and your family. |
| 1:44.5 | Little friends, Britain and United family. Little friends, Britain and the United States made very big step to the nuclear war |
| 1:52.0 | and catastrophic destroying all human mind. |
| 1:55.9 | All of yours will be killed probably end of this year and your families will be killed as though. |
| 2:03.2 | That extraordinary intervention came from a man named Sergei Markov, |
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