Showing posts with label Russian. Show all posts
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Sunday, October 02, 2022
Petraeus: US Would Destroy Russia’s Troops If Putin Uses Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine
THE GUARDIAN: Former CIA director and retired army general says Moscow’s leader is ‘desperate’ and ‘battlefield reality he faces is irreversible’
Former CIA director and retired army general David Petraeus in 2015. Photograph: Chris Keane/REUTERS
The US and its allies would destroy Russia’s troops and equipment in Ukraine – as well as sink its Black sea fleet – if Russian president Vladimir Putin uses nuclear weapons in the country, former CIA director and retired four-star army general David Petraeus warned on Sunday.
Petreaus said that he had not spoken to national security adviser Jake Sullivan on the likely US response to nuclear escalation from Russia, which administration officials have said has been repeatedly communicated to Moscow.
He told ABC News: “Just to give you a hypothetical, we would respond by leading a Nato – a collective – effort that would take out every Russian conventional force that we can see and identify on the battlefield in Ukraine and also in Crimea and every ship in the Black sea.”
The warning comes days after Putin expressed views that many have interpreted as a threat of a larger war between Russia and the west. » | Edward Helmore | Sunday, October 2, 2022
The US and its allies would destroy Russia’s troops and equipment in Ukraine – as well as sink its Black sea fleet – if Russian president Vladimir Putin uses nuclear weapons in the country, former CIA director and retired four-star army general David Petraeus warned on Sunday.
Petreaus said that he had not spoken to national security adviser Jake Sullivan on the likely US response to nuclear escalation from Russia, which administration officials have said has been repeatedly communicated to Moscow.
He told ABC News: “Just to give you a hypothetical, we would respond by leading a Nato – a collective – effort that would take out every Russian conventional force that we can see and identify on the battlefield in Ukraine and also in Crimea and every ship in the Black sea.”
The warning comes days after Putin expressed views that many have interpreted as a threat of a larger war between Russia and the west. » | Edward Helmore | Sunday, October 2, 2022
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