West Sending NATO Troops to Ukraine Could Risk Global Nuclear War: Putin
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Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed on Thursday to fulfill Moscow’s goals in Ukraine and sternly warned the West against deeper involvement in the fighting, saying that such a move could risk a potential global nuclear war.
Putin’s blunt warning came in a state-of-the-nation address ahead of the Russian elections that he’s certain to win, underlining his readiness to raise the stakes in the tug of war with the West to protect the Russian gains in Ukraine.
In a reference to French President Emmanuel Macron’s statement earlier this week that the future deployment of Western ground troops to Ukraine should not be “ruled out,” Putin warned that such action would lead to “tragic” consequences for the countries that decide to do so.
Putin also noted that while accusing Russia of plans to attack NATO allies in Europe, Western allies were “selecting targets for striking our territory” and “talking about the possibility of sending a NATO contingent to Ukraine.”
“We remember the fate of those who sent their troop contingents to the territory of our country,” Putin said in an apparent allusion to the failed invasions by Napoleon and Hitler. “Now the consequences for potential invaders will be far more tragic.”
In a two-hour speech before an audience of lawmakers and top officials, Putin cast Western leaders as reckless and irresponsible and declared that the West should keep in mind that “we also have weapons that can strike targets on their territory, and what they are now suggesting and scaring the world with, all that raises the real threat of a nuclear conflict that will mean the end of our civilization.”
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