Putin continues nuclear blackmail - what will the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus give to Kremlin?
Putin continues nuclear blackmail - what will the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus give to Kremlin? Nika Chitadze Director of the Center for International Studies Professor of the International Black Sea University President of the George C. Marshall Alumni Union, Georgia - International and Security Research Center As is known, a few days ago Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Moscow and Minsk agreed to deploy tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus. The construction of a special warehouse is already underway and will be completed by July 1 of this year. Therefore, it can be said that Putin's blackmailing strategy has entered the next acute phase, and it is theoretically possible that such steps will sooner or later push the world toward a nuclear confrontation. It should be noted that after the dissemination of information about the placement of nuclear weapons in Belarus, the US Department of Defense issued an emergency statem