If he fears a humiliating loss, Putin could order the use of a small-scale nuclear weapon against Ukraine.
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The elaborate threat appeared intended to frighten the United States and its European allies away from the war. Once again, the threatU.S. officials said they didn’t take Putin’s threat literally, perhaps because they had heard it before. CIA Director William Burns dismissed it as “rhetorical posturing,” noting that Russia hadn’t visibly readied its nuclear forces.
Russia has more than 2,000 battlefield nuclear weapons, and their use is a routine part of Moscow’s war planning and military training. Even if a “low-yield” detonation did not compel Ukraine to surrender, it would break a globally observed taboo on nuclear warfighting that has held, almost miraculously, since 1945.
One diplomat told me he believes Biden has asked Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Putin’s most important global ally, to send the same message. U.S. nuclear retaliation could launch a tit-for-tat cycle of escalation and lead to a global holocaust.
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