{"id":299383,"date":"2024-11-27T08:45:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T08:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=299383"},"modified":"2024-11-28T07:45:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T07:45:43","slug":"transfer-of-nukes-to-kiev-would-be-viewed-as-attack-on-russia-medvedev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=299383","title":{"rendered":"Transfer of nukes to Kiev would be viewed as attack on Russia \u2013 Medvedev"},"content":{"rendered":"

RT.com \u2013 Nov 26, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Moscow will consider any threat of nuclear arms being supplied to Ukraine by the US as preparation for a direct war with Russia, former president Dmitry Medvedev has warned. The actual transfer of nuclear weapons would be tantamount to an attack on the country under Russia\u2019s new nuclear doctrine, he added.<\/p>\n

In a Telegram post on Tuesday, Medvedev referenced a recent report in the New York Times. In a piece bylined by four of its journalists, the NYT claimed that US and EU officials are \u201cdiscussing deterrence as a security guarantee\u201d<\/em> for Ukraine, claiming a conversation is underway to consider giving Ukraine nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

US politicians and journalists are seriously discussing the consequences of providing Kiev with nuclear weapons, said Medvedev, who serves as the deputy chair of the Russian Security Council.<\/p>\n

\u201cLooks like my sad joke about crazy senile Biden, who\u2019s eager to go out with a bang and take a substantial part of humanity with him, is becoming dangerously real,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n

Medvedev argued that the idea of \u201cgiving nukes to a country that\u2019s at war with the greatest nuclear power\u201d<\/em> is so absurd that Biden and anyone else considering such a step must have \u201cmassive paranoid psychosis.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The former president said the threat of transferring nuclear weapons to Kiev would be viewed as preparation for a nuclear conflict with Russia.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact of transferring such weapons may be considered as the launch of an attack against our country in accordance with Paragraph 19 of the \u2018Basic Principles of State Policy on Nuclear Deterrence\u2019,\u201d<\/em> he wrote.<\/p>\n

Medvedev was referring to Russia\u2019s recently revised nuclear doctrine in which President Vladimir Putin lowered the threshold for Moscow\u2019s use of its nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

Putin ordered a change in the nation\u2019s nuclear doctrine in late September and approved the document on November 19. The move came as the US and several Western nations allowed Ukraine to use foreign-made long-range weapons for strikes deep inside Russia, despite Moscow\u2019s warning that this would escalate the conflict and result in NATO\u2019s direct participation in the hostilities.<\/p>\n

The document allows Moscow to treat an attack by a non-nuclear state, backed by a nuclear power, as equivalent to direct nuclear aggression.<\/p>\n

Last week, Russia carried out a strike on Ukraine using the latest Oreshnik medium-range hypersonic missile, saying it was a response to Kiev\u2019s cross-border attacks using US-made ATACMS and HIMARS systems, as well as British-made Storm Shadow missiles.<\/p>\n

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While comments from former Russian president Medvedev can be seen as alarmist they shouldn\u2019t be dismissed. We suspect that President Putin often uses his former prime minister as a mouthpiece, to voice ideas that might seem to counter to Putin\u2019s image of a responsible statesman but which he nonetheless seriously considers <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":294760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299384,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299383\/revisions\/299384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/294760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}