[WSMDiscuss] Invasion of Ukraine: On Loss of Key City Chechen Leader Urges Putin to Resort to Nuclear Strike!

[Aaron Tovish]

We are approaching a Truman-MacArthur moment.  In the Korea War, a popular
general advocated the use of nuclear weapons against the Communist forces;
the US President fired him.  Now Kadyrov, a popular general, is exceeding
his authority by telling Putin that he should unleash nuclear force; will
Putin sack him??  I doesn't seem likely, but the situation cannot be
allowed to fester.
When he began this bluff, he had to worry about the Western respond; he
probably didn't expect this own generals to call his bluff.  For what it
worth:  I warned him
<https://nofirstuse.global/2022/04/25/putin-dont-even-pretend-to-think-about-starting-a-nuclear-war/>:
"More importantly, while you can be reasonably confident that Biden will
not publicly expose your bluff, there is a risk that it will be openly
called by another party."
AT

On Sun, Oct 2, 2022 at 11:03 AM Sukla Sen <sukla.sen at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> In order to make a nuclear threat credible, on every successive occasion,
> one has to scream shriller.
> It, however, has its own inbuilt perilous dynamic.
> Pushes the world closer to the nuclear apocalypse.
>
> <<Ramzan Kadyrov, head of Russia’s region of Chechnya, said on Saturday
> that Moscow should consider using a low-yield nuclear weapon in Ukraine
> amid new reversals on the battlefield.
>
> In a message on Telegram criticizing Russian commanders for abandoning the
> east Ukrainian town of Lyman on Saturday, Kadyrov wrote: “In my personal
> opinion, more drastic measures should be taken, right up to the declaration
> of martial law in the border areas and the use of low-yield nuclear
> weapons.”
>
> He was speaking a day after President Vladimir Putin proclaimed the
> annexation of four Ukrainian regions - including Donetsk, where Lyman is
> located - and placed them under Russia’s nuclear umbrella, saying Moscow
> would defend the lands it had seized “with all our strength and all our
> means.”
>
> Russia has the world’s largest atomic arsenal, including low-yield
> tactical nuclear weapons that are designed to be deployed against opposing
> armies.
>
> Other top Putin allies, including former president Dmitry Medvedev, have
> suggested that Russia may need to resort to nuclear weapons, but Kadyrov’s
> call was the most urgent and explicit.
>
> The influential ruler of the Caucasus region of Chechnya has been a vocal
> champion of the war in Ukraine, with Chechen forces forming part of the
> vanguard of the Russian army in Ukraine.
>
> In his message, he slammed Colonel-General Alexander Lapin, commander of
> the Russian forces fighting at Lyman, calling him “a mediocrity.”>>
>
> (Excerpted from: <
> https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2022/10/01/Chechen-s-Kadyrov-Russia-should-use-low-yield-nuclear-weapon-in-Ukraine
> >.)
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