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Vladimir Putin issued another nuclear war threat to the West if it sends troops to aid Ukraine – and then compared a possible peace deal to drug"cravings".news agency, the Russian president said if the US sent troops to Ukraine it would be a major escalation – but claimed he otherwise saw no need to use nuclear weapons in the current conflict.
He said that “there are enough specialists in the field of Russian-American relations and in the field of strategic restraint,” and concluded: “Therefore, I don’t think that here everything is rushing to it , but we are ready for this.”Putin has suggested a deployment of Western troops to Ukraine would escalate into a conflict using weapons of mass destruction.In fact, Russia’s relationship with the West is now at its lowest point since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
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