i also sat down with the president of south korea to ask about the threat from his neighbor to the north, who just declared itself a nuclear state. also, hijabs burned, protests rage and chants of death to the dictator ring out in iran after a woman dies in police custody there. what will come of the demonstrations? i will ask an expert. but first, here s my take. let s not play down what has happened this week. the leader of the world s largest nuclear power publicly threatened to use nuclear weapons. in an address in moscow on wednesday, vladamir putin declared that russia would use all weapons systems available to us to defend the country. he emphasized it. this is not a bluff. it might be. putin s threat with add-ones of traditional soviet doctrine. now they contemplate scenarios which it could use nuclear weapons. but he knows the west has nuclear weapons of its own and that the doctrine of mutually assured destruction has prevented any power from deploying them sinc
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this is not a bluff. it might be. putin s threat with add-ones of traditional soviet doctrine. now they contemplate scenarios which it could use nuclear weapons. but he knows the west has nuclear weapons of its own and that the doctrine of mutually assured destruction has prevented any power from deploying them since 1945. these kinds of threats must ramp up china and india. but what does it tell us that putin decided to make his statement any way? that the war is going very badly for him. this month, ukrainian forces routed the russian army in a stunning series of victories. putin s first response was to open a new ferris wheel in
"If you don t get the orders from the top you don t do anything. And that s very demoralizing for the troops in the trenches," Cedric Leighton said Saturday.
They still use they have issues, and severe issues of the doctrine which is essentially improvised soviet doctrine. so, they are doing not that well for themselves at all. they are feeling in all of the operational objectives. so the only thing they can do is use the advantage in the air, and bomb cities out. that is what we are seeing in a number of cities. mariupol obviously is the worst example, because they simply destroyed it city which was pretty much almost 100 percent russian-speaking. so, it is an extremely perverted way to protect russian-speaking people by destroying their cities. and of course, they try to do this with the other ones. that is why ukraine s enhancing its capabilities, including partners from the west, in order to resist, and to counter