"He can forget about intimidation." Why it is unprofitable to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine - explains the expert

And everyone thinks that he meant nuclear weapons. That is, all this monologue - it was an attempt to assure the West that if you continue to support Ukraine and increase [support], "I will do something so terrible. " But he did not say nuclear weapons because he realizes that if he says, it will mean that he means the plan to apply it somewhere, ”Sinovts said.

Video of the day according to the expert, the main trump card of Russia, as the largest nuclear state in the world is blackmail and intimidation of the likelihood of nuclear missiles. “The main trump card of Russia, which is the largest nuclear state is to intimidate. Because if she applies something and does not work, then everything: you can forget about intimidation, Putin will be left without the main trump card.

For him, the main thing is to intimidate, and even if he starts thinking about nuclear weapons, he will make some high-profile passages that are "about to go and now". Suddenly there is no point in doing so for him, ”she continued. “It's not just comments. There is information about the United States that the State Department has an unofficial dialogue with Russia, where it emphasizes that nuclear weapons cannot be used.

Therefore, when Blinken says they have a plan, that this is exactly the plan they report to Putin and try to convince him. But it cannot publish this plan, because then there will be absolute panic, then the question will begin. These are things that cannot be published where a clear line cannot be drawn and that nuclear weapons are bad, and everything else is normal, ”the center head added.

In addition, she believes that the public outline of the red lines on the Washington side - can solve the hands of a Russian dictator for other actions, as if "allowed". “Because then Russia feels that it can do anything, anything, but [use] nuclear weapons. It seems to me that this is a dialogue about belief not to make any very negative moments. Nuclear weapons are more psychological moment to press west, Ukraine, ”the expert summed up.

On September 21, Russian dictator Volodymyr Putin, against the background of plans to annex the occupied Ukrainian territories in the east and south, threatened Western countries with the use of nuclear weapons again, emphasizing that this time he was not bluffing. “In the event of a threat to the territorial integrity of our country, we will certainly use all the means available at our disposal to protect Russia and our people. It's not bluff, ”he said.