Re: Time To Sacrifice Alaska, Texas To Putin's Nuclear Arsenal

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On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 23:44:04 -0000 (UTC), pyotr filipivich had the audacity to 
say the following: 


> 
> They can come to an agreement over nuclear exchanges.
> 
> Putin orders nuclear deterrent forces to be on 'high alert' amid spiraling 
> tensions over Ukraine
> The Russian premier said in a meeting of top officials that the move was in 
> response to leading NATO powers making what he called ?aggressive 
> statements.?
> Feb. 27, 2022, 8:44 AM EST
> By Patrick Smith
> 
> President Vladimir Putin on Sunday ordered his military?s nuclear deterrent 
> forces to be on alert as international tensions over Russia?s four-day-old 
> invasion of Ukraine spiraled.
> 
> Putin said in a meeting of top officials shown on state TV on Sunday that the 
> move, which means the country?s nuclear weapons are prepared for increased 
> readiness to launch, was in response to NATO powers making what he called 
> ?aggressive statements.?
> 
> Russia, like the United States and NATO forces, has thousands of nuclear 
> warheads that it maintains as a deterrent to an attack.
> 
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> 
> The move is also a reaction to the West announcing hard-hitting financial 
> sanctions against Russian businesses and key individuals, including Putin 
> himself, the president said in televised comments.
> 
> The Russian defense minister, Sergey Shoygu, and the chief of the military?s 
> general staff have been ordered to put the nuclear deterrent forces in a what 
> was described as a ?special regime of combat duty.?
> 
> Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, 
> told NBC News? Meet the Press on Sunday morning that ?President Putin is 
> continuing to escalate this war in a manner that is totally unacceptable.?
>  vasion of Ukraine as its oligarch owner seeks distance from Moscow
> 
> ?And we have to continue to condemn his actions in the most strong, strongest 
> possible way,? she added
> 
> Putin had promised a strong reaction to any Western power that attempted to 
> stand in his way in Ukraine. In a speech announcing his offensive on 
> Thursday, he warned that any attempt to interfere with the Russian action 
> ?will lead you to such consequences that you have never faced in your 
> history.?
> 
> In February 2021, the United States renewed the New Strategic Arms Reduction 
> Treaty, or New START, the nuclear arms control treaty with Russia, for 
> another five years.
> 
> Signed in 2010 by Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev of Russia, the 
> agreement placed the lowest limits in decades on American and Russian 
> deployed nuclear warheads, and the land- and submarine-based missiles and 
> bombers that deliver them.

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