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Putin's Threat of Nuclear War: Former CIA Moscow Chief of Station Rolf Mowatt-Larssen

Intelligence Matters

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What Do You Think of the Russians Using Tactical Nuclear Weapons?

Senior U.S. officials say they have made clear to the Russians what the consequences would be of the use of nuclear weapons and that those consequences would be severe. If Putin were to use it, obviously that means he was serious and we can't let him get away with it. The most important lesson from this is that Russia is regarded as a pariah state if it escalates to nuclear weapons.

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