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Victory or nuclear war? Putin backs himself further into a Ukrainian corner

Seemingly extending the conditions for possible nuclear use in the middle of a war, and just as Russia is planning to absorb four Ukrainian regions, means Putin had boxed himself in, experts say. [...]

The Russian leader accused the United States and its allies of “nuclear blackmail” and said without elaborating that high-ranking officials from NATO states had made statements about the possibility of “using nuclear weapons of mass destruction against Russia.”

Then he delivered a notable reminder:

“If the territorial integrity of our country (1) ____________ threatened, we (2) ____________ all the means at our disposal to protect Russia and our people,” Putin said, an apparent reference to Moscow’s sizable nuclear arsenal.

“It’s not a bluff,” he added.

Whether Kyiv and its allies should now be more concerned about the threat was up for debate, analysts said.

“I think it signals that he wants people to think he (3) ____________ nuclear war,” Phillips O’Brien, a professor of strategic studies at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. “I don’t think it means he is any more likely to do it than he was yesterday.”

In his speech in February announcing the start of what the Kremlin calls its “special military operation” in Ukraine, Putin warned that anyone who dared to intervene (4) ____________ the full force of Russia’s nuclear arsenal. [...]

Disponível em: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/nuclear-threat-putin-ukraine-war-bluffing-rcna48713. Acesso em: 22 set. 2022. Adaptado.

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