Dmitry Medvedev [once part of the Putin-Medvedev "tandemocracy"] , deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, wrote Thursday in a post on Telegram that territory in eastern Ukraine would be “accepted into Russia” after the completion of staged “referendums” [on Friday] and vowed to strengthen the security of those areas.
To
defend that annexed land, Medvedev said, Russia is able to use not only
its newly mobilized forces, but also “any Russian weapon, including
strategic nuclear ones [Nukes, if used in Ukraine would be termed "tactical"] and those using new principles,” a reference to hypersonic weapons [for which the U.S. has no defense].
“Russia has chosen its path,” Medvedev added. “There is no way back.”
Putin's most recent statements about nukes are thereby clarified by Medvedev to threaten a hypersonic nuclear attack on the United States. But maybe Putin's bluffing? Yeah, right?
