Putin warns the West that Russia is 'ready' for nuclear war: 'Weapons exist in order to use them'

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By Landon Mion | Fox News




Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday warned the West that his country was ready for a nuclear war and said that he would consider the U.S. sending troops to Ukraine as a significant escalation of the war.

"From a military-technical point of view, we are, of course, ready," Putin told state media Rossiya-1 television and news agency RIA after he was asked about a potential nuclear war.

The Russian president said he knows the U.S. is aware that deploying troops to Ukraine or on Russian territory would be viewed by Moscow as intervening in the war. He also urged "strategic restraint."

The comments come after the Pentagon announced Tuesday that it is sending approximately $300 million in weapons to Ukraine in its fight against Russia.

In his comments, Putin added that he was neither "rushing" to use nuclear weapons nor did he believe their use in Ukraine was necessary.

"Therefore, I don't think that everything here is rushing to it [nuclear confrontation], but we are ready for this," he added.

Putin has warned several times since Russia invaded Ukraine more than two years ago that the West risks a nuclear war if it sends troops to fight in Ukraine.



On Wednesday, Putin explained the potential use of nuclear weapons was outlined in the Kremlin's nuclear doctrine.

"Weapons exist in order to use them," Putin said. "We have our own principles."

Putin said in the interview on Wednesday that if the U.S. conducted nuclear tests, Russia might conduct tests as well.

"It's not necessary ... we still need to think about it, but I don't rule out that we can do the same," he said.



The Russian leader said Russia had never been presented with a need to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine since the war began.

"Why do we need to use weapons of mass destruction? There has never been such a need," Putin said.

In recent months, Putin suggested a ceasefire in Ukraine to pause the war, but it was rejected by the U.S. after contacts between intermediaries.

The Russian president reiterated Wednesday that Russia was prepared to engage in serious talks regarding Ukraine.

"Russia is ready for negotiations on Ukraine, but they should be based on reality," he said.

Russia and the U.S. are the biggest nuclear powers in the world, together controlling more than 90% of the world's nuclear weapons.

Western leaders have promised that Russia will be defeated in its fight in Ukraine, but Russian forces continue to control nearly one-fifth of Ukrainian territory.

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The era of Western elites being able to exploit other nations and other peoples across the world is coming to an end, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an exclusive interview published by Rossiya 1 and RIA Novosti on Wednesday.

The president stated that over the past few centuries, the so-called “golden billion” has grown accustomed to being able to “fill their bellies with human flesh and their pockets with money” as they have been “parasitizing” other peoples in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

”But they must understand that the vampire ball is ending,” Putin said.

He added that the citizens of the aforementioned regions, which have been continuously exploited by the West over the past 500 years, have started to associate Russia’s struggle for sovereignty with “their own aspirations for sovereignty and independent development.”

At the same time, Putin noted that Western elites have a very strong desire to “freeze the current situation” and preserve the “unjust state of affairs in international affairs.”

Previously, in his keynote address to Russia’s Federal Assembly last month, Putin stated that the West, with its “colonial habits” of “igniting national conflicts all over the world,” intends to do everything it can to stall Russia’s development and turn it, as it did Ukraine, into a dying failed state.

”In place of Russia, they want a dependent, withering, dying space, where they can do whatever they want,” he said.


The president followed up on those comments in Wednesday’s interview, stating that many Western elites, who have been “blinded by their Russophobia” were “thrilled” when they were able to push Russia to the point where it had to launch its military offensive in Ukraine in order to end the war unleashed by the West in 2014.

”They were even happy, I think, because they believed that now they would finish us off using a barrage of sanctions, having practically declared a sanctions war against us, and with the help of Western weapons in the hands of Ukrainian nationalists,” said Putin, suggesting that this mindset was behind Western calls to “inflict a strategic defeat on Russia on the battlefield.”

Now, the West appears to have realized that defeating Russia in this way is not only unlikely, but impossible due to the unity of its people, the fundamental foundations and stability of its economy and the growing potential of its military, the president said.

”Those who are smarter” have now come to the conclusion that it is necessary to change their strategy in relation to Russia, Putin surmised.

https://www.rt.com/russia/594197-put...ire-ball-west/