Russia threatens nuclear war if invasion of Ukraine fails

With a series of chicanes at the top of the West, at the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, at the ex-president Dmitry Medvedevwarned this Thursday that the defeat of a nuclear power like Russia in a conventional war could result the outbreak of a nuclear conflict. He did so amid questions about the shipment of heavy weapons and attack systems to Ukraine.

“Tomorrow, at the NATO base in Ramstein, top military leaders will discuss new tactics and strategies, as well as supplying Ukraine with new heavy weapons and strike systems. And this will come right after the Davos Forum, where belated revelers have repeated like a mantra: to achieve peace, Russia must lose,” Medvedev said on his Telegram channel.

“And it occurs to none of these wretches to draw the following elementary conclusion from this: the defeat of a nuclear power in a conventional war can lead to the outbreak of a nuclear war“, he stressed.

Medvedev argues in his umpteenth attack against the West, that “the nuclear powers they don’t lose big conflicts on which their fate depends.”

“But that should be obvious to anyone. Even to a Western politician who has retained at least a trace of intelligence,” he insists to the Chicanas.

The former Russian president made the remarks on the eve of a meeting of Ukraine’s defense contact group at the US Ramstein airbase in Germany, where the Kiev partners plan to announce major new military aid that will include more weapons and ammunition, as well as armored vehicles and, as Volodimir Zelensky’s government hopes, modern tanks.

The remarks come after Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky criticized Berlin’s hesitation to supply his country with tanks, on the eve of a key meeting of its allies in Germany to coordinate military aid to Kiev.

Since the beginning of the conflict, Western countries have refused to deliver long-range missiles to Kiev, fearing it could trigger an escalation.

Russia has accused the Ukrainian military of carrying out drone strikes on the annexed Crimea peninsula and against targets in Russia, hundreds of kilometers from the Ukrainian border.

With information from EFE and AFP

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