The saber rattling from Russia has come hard and fast in recent days, but European leaders barely seemed to flinch.
last month, one member of the Kremlin’s security council even named a specific target in the heart of Europe, along with the time it would take a Russian missile to deliver a warhead to that spot. But European leaders barely seemed to flinch. In interviews with TIME, two of them brushed aside Vladimir Putin’s warnings of annihilation.
Through its escalating threats of nuclear war, Russia has tried to stop Western countries from supporting Ukraine, particularly when it comes to long-distance strikes against Russian targets. On Sept. 19, the European Parliament passed a resolution that called for Ukraine to receive the weapons and permission to launch such strikes, and the response from Moscow was unusually blunt.
But the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, did not seem alarmed or even particularly surprised by the apocalyptic rhetoric. “It’s a typical reaction,” she told TIME a few days later. “It’s confrontational.” Pressed on whether she took such threats seriously, Metsola added: “If that’s going to be the increasing rhetoric, that’s something we’re going to have to be prepared for.”
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