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It is ludicrous to suggest that Putin threatening to nuke Ukraine is somehow the fault of NATO. If Putin launches nukes in aggression, it is Putin's fault. Stop wringing your hands in apologetic appeasement to madmen.

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When Putin announced that he was putting his nuclear forces on high alert back in February or March, it was not to threaten Ukraine, but to threaten NATO countries who might come to its assistance. I have not since then heard him threaten Ukraine with his nukes. Perhaps I missed his threats? Do you have a link to one?

As for whose fault is what — honestly, would you care, if either Russia launches nukes or NATO does so preemptively, and then the other side inevitably retaliates, and our world dies in flames — would you really care whose fault it would have been? Would it really matter to you?

Yeah you definitely missed it. See the link below. Kadyrov is also one of the likely successors to Putin.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-says-its-troops-...

I checked out the link. Didn't the parent comment say that it was Putin — italicized — who threatened to nuke Ukraine? Wouldn't the evidence for that need to point at specific Putin's words to that effect?

So other high officials, and Putin's likely successor making threats means nothing? You're really splitting hairs here man.

What makes you think that Kadyrov is Putin's likely successor? Anything could happen, of course; but as a Chechen and a demonstratively, fervently devout Muslim, Kadyrov would be an even scarier figure for the outwardly Orthodox Russians than Stalin was.

Kadyrov is certainly not a likely successor to Putin.

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