Kremlin hardliner claims nuclear weapons are a ‘present from God’ to Putin

Nuclear weapons are a “gift from God” which Vladimir Putin should be prepared to make use of in opposition to “a bunch of targets” if the West refuses to “back down”, a Kremlin hardliner and overseas coverage professional has stated in an inflammatory evaluation.

Professor Sergei Karaganov additionally bizarrely claimed such strikes would “save humanity” and “free the world from the “five-century-long Western yoke”.

Prof Karaganov, who has previously suggested each Vladimir Putin and Boris Yeltsin, didn’t maintain again in an op-ed printed within the Russian weekly journal Profile by which he referenced the warfare in Ukraine and Russia’s plan to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in neighbouring Belarus.

He wrote: “For many years I have studied the history of nuclear strategy and come to an unambiguous, albeit seemingly not quite scientific, conclusion.

“The creation of nuclear weapons was the result of divine intervention.

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“Horrified to see that people, Europeans and the Japanese who had joined them, had unleashed two world wars within the life-span of one generation, sacrificing tens of millions of lives, God handed a weapon of Armageddon to humanity to remind those who had lost the fear of hell that it existed.

“It was this fear that ensured relative peace for the last three-quarters of a century.”

However, that concern was now gone, Prof Karaganov, who heads up Moscow-based assume tank the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy argued.

He stated: “What is happening now is unthinkable in accordance with previous ideas about nuclear deterrence: in a fit of desperate rage, the ruling circles of a group of countries have unleashed a full-scale war in the underbelly of a nuclear superpower.

“That fear needs to be revived. Otherwise, humanity is doomed.

“By breaking the West’s will to aggression, we will not only save ourselves, finally liberate the world from the western yoke that has lasted five centuries, but we will also save all of humanity.”

Prof Karaganov continued: “We will have to make nuclear deterrence a convincing argument again by lowering the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons set unacceptably high, and by rapidly but prudently moving up the deterrence-escalation ladder.

“The first steps have already been made by the relevant statements of Russian President and other leaders: the announced deployment of nuclear weapons and their carriers in Belarus, and the increased combat readiness of strategic deterrence forces.”

There had been however many steps on the aforementioned ladder, Prof Karaganov argued.

He warned: “Things may also get to the point when we will have to urge our compatriots and all people of goodwill to leave their places of residence near facilities that may become targets for strikes in countries that provide direct support to the puppet regime in Kyiv.

“The enemy must know that we are ready to deliver a pre-emptive strike in retaliation for all of its current and past acts of aggression in order to prevent a slide into global thermonuclear war.”

Emphasising the significance of not repeating what he known as the “Ukrainian scenario”, Prof Karaganov defined: “For a quarter of a century, we did not listen to those who warned that NATO expansion would lead to war, and tried to delay and ‘negotiate’.

“As a result, we have got a severe armed conflict. The price of indecision now will be higher by an order of magnitude.”

In a chilling message to Western leaders, he stated: “But what if they do not back down?

“What if they have lost the instinct of self-preservation completely?

“In this case, we will have to hit a bunch of targets in a number of countries in order to bring those who have lost their mind to reason.”