President Vladimir Putin’s new nuclear doctrine has been slammed as a “stupid KGB rulebook poker move”. Earlier today, it was announced that Putin’s fresh order allows the warmonger to take “extreme measures” to defend his country – after the US finally gave the green light for Ukraine to fire US-made missiles into Russia.
Called the Fundamentals of State Police in the Sphere of Nuclear Deterrence, it claims, according to TASS: “Nuclear weapons (NW) are an extreme measure to protect the sovereignty of the country. At the same time, due to the emergence of new military threats and risks, Russia needed to clarify the parameters that allow the use of NW.”
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The Daily Star asked world-renowned war expert Professor Anthony Glees what that actually meant.
He explained: “It’s Putin’s attempt to codify what he’s said before, to set it in concrete in the form of a constitutional document of state. It’s all nonsense but it’s how the KGB mindset works. However, it’s also true that just re-stating a threat is to make a new threat. That’s Putin all over. Brazen cheek (see his point about sovereignty) and threat upon threat upon threat.”
And Professor Glees slammed Putin for the doctrine, stating: “He wants us to fall for his stupid KGB rulebook poker moves. Many analysts believe Putin understands only too clearly that any attempt to start launching nukes would not only unleash a nuclear winter on the Russian people, fuelled by winds that know no borders, but that it could well lead to NATO obliterating him and ghastly regime in seconds.
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“He’s not suicidal, he enjoys the good things of life and realises that glowing in the dark is not a substitute for them. We should tell that botoxed little bully Putin that we’ve had it up to here with his threats, his doctrines and word games.
“We should say to him if he wants to up the ante, let him bring it on. We’re ready for him. He talks about Russian ‘sovereignty’. What about Ukraine’s sovereignty. He’s been trying to destroy it for a thousand days. He’s trying to tie us up. Let’s tie him up.”
World leaders are yet to respond to the new doctrine, which could turn out to be a bit of a storm in a tea cup – according to Professor Glees.
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