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Welp, guess he found out.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/putin-claims-west-seeks-global-domination-by-using-ukraine/2022/10/27/39fbbec4-5607-11ed-ac8b-08bbfab1c5a5_story.html

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MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday denied having any intentions of using nuclear weapons in Ukraine but described the conflict there as part of alleged efforts by the West to secure its global domination, which he insisted are doomed to fail.

Speaking at a conference of international foreign policy experts, Putin said it’s pointless for Russia to strike Ukraine with nuclear weapons.

“We see no need for that,” Putin said. “There is no point in that, neither political, nor military.”

Putin said an earlier warning of his readiness to use “all means available to protect Russia” didn’t amount to nuclear saber-rattling but was merely a response to Western statements about their possible use of nuclear weapons.

He particularly mentioned Liz Truss saying in August that she would be ready to use nuclear weapons if she became Britain’s prime minister, a remark which he said worried the Kremlin.

“What were we supposed to think?” Putin said. “We saw that as a coordinated position, an attempt to blackmail us.”

In a long speech full of diatribes against the United States and its allies, Putin accused them of trying to dictate their terms to other nations in a “dangerous, bloody and dirty” domination game.

Putin, who sent his troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24, has cast Western support for Ukraine as part of broad efforts by Washington and its allies to enforce its will upon others through a rules-based world order. He argued that the world has reached a turning point, when “the West is no longer able to dictate its will to humankind but still tries to do it, and the majority of nations no longer want to tolerate it.”

The Russian leader claimed that the Western policies will foment more chaos, adding that “he who sows the wind will reap the whirlwind.”

Putin claimed that “humankind now faces a choice: accumulate a load of problems that will inevitably crush us all or try to find solutions that may not be ideal but could work and could make the world more stable and secure.”

Without offering evidence, the Russian leader repeated Moscow’s unproven allegation that Ukraine was plotting a false flag attack involving a radioactive dirty bomb it would try to pin on Russia.

Ukraine has strongly rejected the claim, and its Western allies have dismissed it as “transparently false.” Ukraine argued Russia might be making the unfounded allegation to serve as a cover for its own possible plot to detonate a dirty bomb.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told reporters on Thursday that the U.S. has still not seen anything to indicate that Putin has decided to use a dirty bomb.

Putin said he personally ordered Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to call his foreign counterparts to tell them about the purported plot. He maintained that Russia knows the Ukrainian facilities working on the project.

He mocked the allegations by Ukraine and the West that Russia was firing on the territory of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in southern Ukraine as “ravings.” Russian troops have occupied the plant, Europe’s largest, since the early days of the conflict.

Putin also expressed bewilderment about Washington’s policy on China, noting that tensions sparked by a recent visit to Taiwan by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi come amid the U.S.-Russian showdown over Ukraine.

“Why spoil relations with China at the same time?” Putin said. “It seems to defy logic and common sense. It looks like ravings.”

He hailed Russia’s relations with China, but said he hadn’t warned Chinese President Xi Jinping about his intention to send troops into Ukraine when he visited Beijing days before that to attend the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Asked about Washinton’s threat to re-evaluate its relationship with Saudi Arabia over the Riyadh-led OPEC+ alliance’s move to cut oil production, Putin argued that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was acting in his nation’s interests and the need to stabilize global energy markets.

“They need to respect the crown prince and Saudi Arabia, and they will respond in kind,” Putin said. “And they will also respond in kind if they are spoken to in a boorish manner.”

The Russian leader said Russia isn’t the enemy of the West but will continue to oppose the purported diktat of Western neo-liberal elites, accusing them of trying to subdue Russia.

“Their goal is to make Russia more vulnerable and turn it into an instrument for fulfilling their geopolitical tasks, they have failed to achieve it and they will never succeed,” Putin said.

Putin reaffirmed his long-held claim that Russians and Ukrainians are part of a single people and again denigrated Ukraine as an “artificial state” that received historic Russian lands from Communist rulers during the Soviet times.

In that context, he acknowledged that the fighting in Ukraine effectively amounts to a civil war, although the Kremlin calls its actions in Ukraine a “special military operation.”

Putin said he thinks “all the time” about the casualties that Russia has suffered in Ukraine, but insisted that NATO’s refusal to rule out Ukraine’s prospective membership and Kyiv’s refusal to adhere to a peace deal for its separatist conflict in the country’s east has left Moscow no other choice.

He denied underestimating Ukraine’s ability to fight back and insisted that his “special military operation” has proceeded as planned.

Putin also acknowledged the challenges posed by Western sanctions, but argued that Russia has proven resilient to foreign pressure and has become more united.

John Kirby, a U.S. National Security Council spokesman, responded to Putin’s speech as it was underway.

“We don’t believe that Mr. Putin’s strategic goals have changed here. He doesn’t want Ukraine to exist as a sovereign, independent nation state,” Kirby said.

 

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34 minutes ago, Gravy Train said:

So Putin says there’s no need to use nukes and Russia won’t.

Which means he will use nukes.

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13 minutes ago, MillerEP said:

 

so kill and loot are the ops orders? Fuck trying to take care of your troops. Let them kill, loot and we, the Generals can steal their food and sell it to their mothers. 

I have legalized robbery
Called it belief
I have run with the money
I have a-hid like a thief
Re-written history
With my armies and my crooks
Invented memories
I did burn all the books

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3 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Wish we could do a dual comment. Love the first video. That is a dude who knows how to train. Just listen to how he speaks through an interpreter. Slow, with breaks, etc. 

 

I'm an internet moron, and I'm just a little bit better at clearing bunkers now.

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For the record, I do not think Putin will ever put Kadyrov in charge.  Kadyrov is a very useful idiot and keeps the Chechens in line, but he seems to have delusions of grandeur at times, and even without the ethnic/religious issues, I just don’t think Kadyrov is somebody that Putin wants with that much power.

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11 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

By the way, the fighting of major military leaders is by design - keeps them from being unified, and energy they expend fighting one another is energy that can’t be expended fighting Putin

 

Either propaganda, worried about a deep penetration, or they are so fucked a very senior general is setting up firing points at the front. I call propaganda. 

2 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

For the record, I do not think Putin will ever put Kadyrov in charge.  Kadyrov is a very useful idiot and keeps the Chechens in line, but he seems to have delusions of grandeur at times, and even without the ethnic/religious issues, I just don’t think Kadyrov is somebody that Putin wants with that much power.

Nor the oligarchs. And a lot of Russian's remember what the Chechens did to their forces. 

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9 minutes ago, Fico said:

My sarcasm meter might be off, but IR seeker targets the bucket fire instead of less hot tank.

That may be the concept, but I think that most modern IR seekers look for the shape of a vehicle.  I think that a pot of burning coal or wood is unlikely to spoof something like a Javelin.

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1 minute ago, Scheiss Meister said:

That may be the concept, but I think that most modern IR seekers look for the shape of a vehicle.  I think that a pot of burning coal or wood is unlikely to spoof something like a Javelin.

Totally agree, it's better for keeping you and your coffee warm than any kind of decoy.

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1 minute ago, Scheiss Meister said:

That may be the concept, but I think that most modern IR seekers look for the shape of a vehicle.  I think that a pot of burning coal or wood is unlikely to spoof something like a Javelin.

Plus, I’d bet that a Russian tank gives off a much larger heat signature than a little bucket of burning wood.

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36 minutes ago, Scheiss Meister said:

That may be the concept, but I think that most modern IR seekers look for the shape of a vehicle.  I think that a pot of burning coal or wood is unlikely to spoof something like a Javelin.

They would also look at the specific frequencies of IR radiation. Just like visible light, there is a range of frequencies/wavelengths of IR radiation, it isn't as simple as hotter=more IR. Sophisticated IR seekers would look at the particular spectrum of IR, and be designed to find spectra that are like tank engines, and not spectra like decoys, which might have a lot of IR but not really at the right frequencies.

 

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