{"id":317658,"date":"2025-10-30T07:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T07:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=317658"},"modified":"2025-11-01T06:41:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T06:41:44","slug":"belgian-defence-minister-if-putin-attacks-nato-moscow-will-be-wiped-off-the-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=317658","title":{"rendered":"Belgian defence minister: If Putin attacks NATO, Moscow will be wiped off the map"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anastasia Protz, Iryna Kutielieva \u2013 msn.com Oct 29, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Belgian Defence Minister Theo Francken has declared that “Moscow will be wiped off the map” if Kremlin ruler Vladimir Putin decides to attack the capital of a NATO member state, such as Brussels.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong> Francken in an interview with Belgian newspaper De Morgen<\/a>, as reported by European Pravda<\/p>\n

Details:<\/strong> Francken emphasised that Western countries must not allow themselves to be intimidated.<\/p>\n

When asked whether he feared that Putin might one day launch a non-nuclear missile on Brussels, Francken replied: “No, because then he would strike at the heart of NATO, and we will wipe Moscow off the map”.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Francken said he doubts that Putin would dare to launch a missile at Brussels.<\/p>\n

Quote:<\/strong> “I’m more concerned about scenarios in the grey zone: little ‘green men’ in Estonia inciting the Russian-speaking minority against ‘the Nazi regime’. Before you know it, they’ll have annexed part of Estonia.” [“Green men” are unmarked Russian soldiers or operatives who appear in foreign territories to carry out covert operations in order to destabilise or annex regions without overtly declaring military action \u2013 ed.]<\/p>\n

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Coming from Belgium\u2019s defence minister \u2013 a non-nuclear power \u2013 this clearly indicates the sort of delusional thinking prevailing among the West\u2019s political elite<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"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":[61,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317658","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=317658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317659,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317658\/revisions\/317659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}