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Putin's Nuclear Escalation, February 27, 2022

February 27, 2022

In televised comments on Sunday, Russia’s President Putin aggressively and dangerously raised the stakes in the Ukraine war with the order to his defense minister and the chief of the military’s General Staff to put the nation’s nuclear forces in a “special regime of combat duty” in response to what he called “aggressive statements” by leading NATO powers. Putin said he was responding to not only to “western countries…unfriendly actions in the economic sphere” but “aggressive statements” by leading NATO powers.

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