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The Weekly News Round-Up: Geopolitical Developments 31

December 09, 2022

Putin remarks on nuclear threat and the war: In a wide-ranging speech to the annual session of Russia’s human rights council, Russian President Putin claimed that Russia would “focus on peaceful means, but if nothing else remains, we will defend ourselves with all the means at our disposal” and suggested that the nuclear threat is “on the rise.” However, Putin added that “[w]e haven’t gone mad, we realize what nuclear weapons are. We have these means in more advanced and modern form than any other nuclear country, that’s an obvious fact. But we aren’t about to run around the world brandishing this weapon like a razor.”

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