'If you're afraid of Putin using nukes, then you already lose the war against him,' former Russian diplomat Boris Bondarev told Newsweek.
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to the media in Budapest, Hungary on February 17, 2015. Putin’s nuclear threats are a bluff former Russian diplomat Boris Bondarev told Newsweek."Today [Putin's] bluffing and we know that he has bluffed about nuclear threats. Ukrainians recovered some parts of their territory, and there was no nuclear retaliation," Bondarev said in a phone interview from Switzerland.
"If you're afraid of Putin using nukes, then you already lose the war against him and he wins," Bondarev said when asked about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's pledge to take back Crimea."Because that's what he wants. He wants you to be compelled or be deterred by his threats." "It's a question of how far [you can] go into this war to bring Putin to justice, so to speak. And do you agree with the concept that if there is a [country with] nuclear weapons, then it can be can be allowed to do whatever it wants?" Bondarev asked.
"So if you hold Ukrainians from recapturing Crimea, then you say OK, well Vladimir, Crimea is yours forever. You must go to the end because if you stop halfway, you lose and Putin wins.
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