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Vladimir Putin’s threats to use nuclear weapons are beginning to be replicated by the West, though not through official channels. Former CIA director David Petraeus warned in an ABC News interview quoted by The Guardian that if the Russian president uses his nuclear weapon, the United States and its allies will destroy all Russian troops and equipment in Ukraine, as well as sink the entire floats in the Black Sea. .
In the same statements, Petraeus makes it clear, however, that did not talk with White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan about possible American responses to nuclear threats.
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The former director of the CIA thus exposed, in statements to ABC News, the hypotheses on the table, without compromising the Biden Administration. Petraeus explained that NATO Article 5 (which would immediately require collective defense) would not be activated, since Ukraine is not part of NATO, but “a joint US-NATO response It would be a possibility.”
Petraeus recalls that the fact that the radiation resulting from this type of weapon can reach other countries, can allow the reading that it is an attack on NATO. “This is so horrible that it cannot go unanswered. No one wants to enter an escalation that leads to a nuclear conflict. So you have to show that an attack of this type will not be accepted in any way, ”said the former CIA director.
With the pressure of the Russian offensive following the annexation of four provinces in eastern Ukraine and the resistance to the mobilization order inside Russia, Petraeus says that the Russian leader “is desperate”. “The reality of the battlefield is irreversible. No amount of chaotic mobilization, no annexation, no amount of nuclear threat, however veiled, can take it away from us. [a Putin] of this situation At some point this will have to be recognized [pela Rússia]. At some point there will have to be negotiations and that will be, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said, the true ending“, added the former director of the agency.
Source: Observadora
