A report surfacing after Russia’s celebration of the one-year annexation of Crimea claims Russian officials warned that any Western attempt to reclaim Crimea “would trigger a Russian response, possibly involving nuclear force.”
Putin put on a magnificent show to celebrate the one-year anniversary of Crimea’s annexation on March 18. While the celebration consisted of smiles and joy, something more sinister occurred at the same time behind closed doors in Torgau, Germany.
Over the course of two days, the Russians, “who once ran the interior ministry, the military directorate in charge of nuclear weapons, the GRU (Russian military intelligence) and the FSB (the main successor agency to the KBG)” met with Americans who had backgrounds in military, CIA, and the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Notes from the meeting show Russian officials told the Americans if anyone in the West attempted to retrieve Crimea, the move “would trigger a Russian response, possibly involving nuclear force.” It is not the first time Russia referred to their nuclear weapons in the past year. Putin told school children “Russia is one of the leading nuclear powers” and “it’s best not to mess with us.”
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When Vladimir Putin sent troops into the Crimean peninsula, he sent a strong signal to both Ukraine and the rest of the world: Russia will use military force, if necessary, to secure Crimea’s independence from Ukraine and its eventual reintegration into Russia, its presumptive ancestral homeland. Russia is now also trying to argue to the United Nations, as well as the court of world opinion, that its actions are justified by international law. Evaluating this claim is tricky, but here are the key elements of the argument..jpg)

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