Putin 'much more cautious' over using nuclear after stern dressing down from China

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Vladimir Putin has, on at least three occasions since the invasion, threatened the use of nuclear warheads against Ukraine and the West. For his state media puppets and the cronies surrounding him, that figure is considerably higher.

Vladimir Putin has become “much more cautious” about the use of nuclear weapons, according to a native businessman, since talking with Chinese officials and President Xi Jinping. Russian businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky, speaking to BBC Newsnight’s Kirsty Wark, said he believed the danger of nuclear war had “diminished” after nearly six weeks of heightened concern. Since September 21, Putin has said his threats of nuclear war were “not a bluff”, has claimed he would use “all the power and means at our disposal” to protect the newly-annexed four regions of Ukraine, cited the US atomic bombs in Japan in August 1945 as “precedent” and falsely accused Ukraine of engineering a dirty bomb laced with radioactive material to incite further escalation, according to experts.

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[ExpressLane]

Good. I didn't think China would be down with Russia letting the nuclear genie out of the bottle.

 

[Walt]

Prevailing winds would have China down wind from Ukraine. It probably would not be enough to point to individual Chinese children, and say they died, but there would be more Chinese children dying of cancer.

And Xi would look even worse. Xi is hanging onto power, because he says he is a perfect leader. Each failure means he is no perfect.

 

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Good. I didn't think China would be down with Russia letting the nuclear genie out of the bottle.

Putin needs China for weapons and semiconductors.