No step back, if anything forward towards a very dangerous climb. With yet another challenge to Kiev and the West, Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a long speech during the ceremony of annexation to Russia of the Ukrainian territories of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. “The choice of referendums will not be discussed,” Putin announced, inviting the enemy to negotiate. But for the Ukrainian president there is no room for negotiation, at least as long as the Russian president is Vladimir Putin.
The ratification of the annexation of Ukrainian territories provoked a reaction from the international community. The US and UK have announced sanctions, as has the EU, and the G7 has threatened to target those who “give political or economic support to these violations of international law”.
The tsar has long argued that his troops are fighting not the Ukrainians but the US and NATO, which supply them with weapons. And he warned that the new territories will be defended “by all possible means” by repeatedly evoking Russian doctrine on the atomic bomb. In this international context, the outbreak of the third world war seems imminent. Annexation and escalation go hand in hand for this reason political scientist Henry Kissinger warned: “If Putin uses the atomic bomb, Russia will be destroyed.” An apocalyptic but inevitable scenario, with the nuclear option on the table: “We cannot allow atomic weapons to become like conventional weapons,” Kissinger explained. In America they reply that if Putin uses the atomic bomb, Russia will be destroyed.
Source: IL Tempo
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