[News page-Taiwan Strait Net].
According to Agence France-Presse on February 29, Russia's Vladimir Putin warned the West in his annual address to the people on February 29 that there would be a "real threat" of nuclear war if the conflict in Ukraine escalated.
According to the report, Washington called this new statement on nuclear ** "irresponsible rhetoric." France, for its part, warned the Kremlin's masters "not to engage in escalation."
The head of Russia congratulated his army on the progress made on the Ukrainian front. Amid incessant applause from an audience made up of Russian elites, Putin responded in a calm tone to the controversial remarks of the French ** Macron about the possibility of sending Western troops to Ukraine.
"They (the West) talked about the possibility of sending military units to Ukraine," he said. But this intervention will have even more tragic consequences. ”
Putin also said: "They should understand that we also have ** capable of striking targets within their borders." Everything they are currently plotting, in addition to terrorizing the whole world, constitutes a real threat of the use of nuclear weapons to create a conflict and thus destroy civilization. ”
The report mentioned that although Macron's remarks caused controversy, even among France's allies, he said on the 29th that every word he said on the Ukraine issue was "weighed" and "measured".
The report also said that Eloise Faye, an expert at the French Institute of International Relations, believes that the main purpose of Putin's new nuclear threats is to make the West discourage the idea of supporting more to Ukraine.
"We are in a relatively balanced deterrence relationship, and there are no more obvious signs of the risk of using nuclear **," she said. ”
At the end of his speech, Putin promised that the Russian army fighting in Ukraine "will not retreat, will not lose, will not betray."
In his speech, Putin also praised the "flexibility and resilience" of the Russian economy, which has remained unchanged despite a series of Western sanctions and has shifted to an Asian and wartime state.
He also slammed the U.S. authorities, accusing them of "trying to prove that they are leading the world as before" and "demagoguery" in front of the U.S. in November.
Putin said that Russia is "willing" to "dialogue" with Washington on the issue of "strategic stability." (Compiled by Zhao Kexin).
*: Refer to the news network).