(John Ransom, Headline USA) Democrats have invented their own WMD story to support regime change, as the head of the CIA warned about taking Russia’s nuclear capability too “lightly.”
Speaking at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, CIA Director William Burns has said that in desperation Russian President Vladimir Putin could use a tactical or low-yield nuclear weapon in Ukraine in order to try to reverse his battlefield mistakes.
“Given the potential desperation of President Putin and the Russian leadership, given the setbacks that they’ve faced so far, militarily, none of us can take lightly the threat posed by a potential resort to tactical nuclear weapons or low-yield nuclear weapons,” said Burns, according to Voice of America.
Tom Friedman in the NYT today calls on the US to “set in motion” the “forces” that would “topple Putin from power.” May not seem significant that Friedman is advocating regime change in Russia, but lots of people in positions of power genuinely still regard him to be brilliant
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) April 10, 2022
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has also warned about potential Putin use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine.
Nina Khrushcheva, the great granddaughter to former Soviet dictator Nikita Khrushchev, echoed the comments but said it wasn’t a prediction of the use of nukes, but was just noting the potential is there for Putin to use nuclear weapons, said Newsweek.
“Since there are questions about how far Russia can go to create victory, and nuclear weapons have been part of the conversation on both sides, Russian and the West, the tactical atomic option is potentially imaginable,” said Khrushcheva, a professor of International Affairs at The New School in New York City, a progressive hotbed.
Last month President Joe Biden made news with an alleged “gaffe,” when he said that the world could not afford to retain Putin in power in Russia, which could explain the recent obsession with nuclear war.
“Ukraine will never be a victory for Russia, for free people refuse to live in a world of hopelessness and darkness,” Biden said, according to CNBC.
“For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” Biden added.
The modus operandi of warning about the use of weapons of mass destruction resembles similar reasoning that the George W. Bush administration used in order to justify regime change in Iraq, after Iraq had unsuccessfully attacked it smaller neighbor Kuwait and had been defeated by NATO forces.
