Warning of possible Biden-launched Armageddon heightens fears that Russia will choose to use nuclear weapons
Joe Biden stated in the United States that “we haven’t had the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis” to talk about Russia’s nuclear threat and that message became a global front page, but in Ukraine they have been terrorized for weeks. put in the body. Unlike other wars, this time US intelligence has reliable sources and has been able to predict the enemy’s steps at different times during the invasion. At a time when the eastern and southern fronts are in favor of Kiev’s interests, the big question on the minds of citizens is how a Vladimir Putin affected by the collapse of his troops might react.
Aleksei has fought in Afghanistan for three years and has not left Odessa since the outbreak of the war. He thinks that “the Red Army I knew was as disastrous as the Russian army we see in action today. I am not surprised that they are losing ground because they are fighting with the USSR mentality and not realizing that we are in the 21st century. When the nuclear issue comes up, he is silent for a few seconds before continuing with a single word: “Putin”.
This veteran of the Afghan conflict, where he lost eight teeth in a fight with a fellow Chechen, warns that “the threat is serious because Putin is injured. It is important to him that the world treat Russia as a power and I think that he thinks in his head that if the United States used atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, why couldn’t Russia use them?
Aleksei is not concerned that the Russians have added 200,000 reservists to their ranks, because “in modern warfare it is important to have state-of-the-art weapons and we have them, not them.”
In the editorial offices of the local media, reports coming in through the networks about this threat range “from panic to indifference. Some see it as something very real, others as propaganda and there are also those who are indifferent because they have already lost everything,” says Lina, director of the online information platform ‘Bgoru’. This is a project born in Kherson, 200 kilometers from Odessa, which the war and Russian occupation have turned into a window to show what life is like under Russian control, and the number of followers on its YouTube and Telegram channels has skyrocketed in the past seven months.
The editorial office is located in the center of Odessa, where three displaced journalists from Kherson work. They also have two employees who work in complete anonymity in the area under occupation, “an absolute secret job because the Russians are behind them. They tell us basic things, whether there is electricity or food in the markets, whether enemy reinforcements are coming… the Dnieper River,” Ilona says. This journalist’s opinion is that the nuclear threat is “very serious because the enemy is at a dead end”.
In ‘Bgoru’ they fight another of the most important battles in any war, the battle for information, “with the aim of confronting Moscow’s propaganda and lies,” emphasizes Lina, head of the investigation. She had to follow closely the recent referendum for the annexation of Kherson to the Russian Federation and assures that “it was a failure because half the people left as soon as they arrived and those who stay behind are afraid, they are not free to enter.” show their opinion because they live under military occupation’.
Kiev’s armed forces quickly recaptured territory and, in the words of Volodymyr Zelensky, 500 square kilometers on the southern Kherson front have already been liberated. This is the biggest defeat the Russians have suffered on this front since the invasion began and poses a challenge to Putin’s announced annexation, as the new borders have not stopped shrinking since he made the decision public. At the moment, the Russians on the battlefield are not reacting to the Ukrainian advance.
The Ukrainian president also took the opportunity to intervene via videoconference at the European Council in Prague. There, the shadow of the nuclear threat hung in the air, and Zelensky took the opportunity to request “to increase the stock of weapons and ammunition to defend against Russian pressure”, the same request he has made since the first day of the invasion. enforced.
The Ukrainian leader, whose numbers do not stop growing among his own, acknowledged that Europeans may prefer to “spend money on completely different objectives, peaceful objectives, social needs…”, but then he asked them: ” who and what will be able to protect such goals and needs?
Source: La Verdad
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