Russia appears to be threatening Europe with nuclear arms

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Igor Ivanov
Igor Ivanov

The East-West standoff over the Ukraine crisis has brought the threat of nuclear war in Europe closer than at any time since the 1980s, a former Russian foreign minister warned on Saturday.

“The risk of confrontation with the use of nuclear weapons in Europe is higher than in the 1980s,” said Igor Ivanov, Russia’s foreign minister from 1998 to 2004 and now head of a Moscow-based think-tank founded by the Russian government.

While Russia and the United States have cut their nuclear arsenals, the pace is slowing. As of January 2015, they had just over 7,000 nuclear warheads each, about 90 percent of world stocks, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

“We have less nuclear warheads, but the risk of them being used is growing,” Ivanov said at a Brussels event with the foreign ministers of Ukraine and Poland and a U.S. lawmaker.

NATO’s secretary general Jens Stoltenberg has warned Russia of intimidating its neighbors with talk about nuclear weapons, publicly voicing concerns among Western officials.

MISSILE DEFENSE

Ivanov blamed a missile defense shield that the United States is setting up in Europe for raising the stakes.

Part of that shield involves a site in Poland that is due to be operational in 2018. This is particularly sensitive for Moscow because it brings U.S. capabilities close to its border.

However, the United States and NATO say the shield is designed to protect Europe against Iranian ballistic missiles and is neither targeted at Russia nor capable of downing its missiles.

“It can be assured that once the U.S. deploys its missile defense system in Poland, Russia would respond by deploying its own missile defense system in Kaliningrad,” Ivanov said, referring to Russia’s territory in the Baltics.

In remarks that are likely to alarm European and NATO diplomats seeking a political solution to the separatist conflict in Ukraine that has killed more than 9,000 people since April 2014, Ivanov also said Europe and Russia have little chance of a broader reconciliation.

“The paths of Europe and Russia are seriously diverging and will remain so for a long time … probably for decades to come,” Ivanov said, adding that Russia could not be the eastern flank of a “failed greater Europe.”

“These beautiful plans, we have to forget,” he said, adding that Russia’s destiny was now as the leader of a greater Eurasia stretching from Belarus to the Chinese border.

Reuters

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39 responses to “Russia appears to be threatening Europe with nuclear arms”

  1. wargame1 Avatar

    Exclusively-obtained US court documents have exposed a link between Iran and the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.The report added that six Iranian individuals and entities were accused in the case, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, former Iranian intelligence minister Ali Fallahian, deputy commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Brig. Gen. Mohammed Baqir tho al-Qader.
    The documents revealed that calls supervised by Iranian homeland security were made with al-Qaeda and that by the mid-1990s “all Iranian intelligence heads were in direct contact with al-Qaeda.”
    http://english.alarabiya.net/en/perspective/features/2016/03/19/Damning-documents-reveal-9-11-links-between-Iran-and-al-Qaeda.html

    1. Hind Abyad Avatar
      Hind Abyad

      english.alarabia.net – Saudi Arabia paper.

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        For my favourite Artist …. there are more questions these days than answers, about what is …
        Dark Ages of artistic history are now … this one questions the supposed histories we read …
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2FVwbYy8jk

        1. Hind Abyad Avatar
          Hind Abyad

          That is something that interest me..i can understand it, people were Thinking living in the dark, no electricity, telephone, radio, television that turned modern man into madness.
          Artists were doing the most great things Because there was nothing else to live for.
          BTW. The Russian woman had a musical voice. I love old mother Russia.

          1. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            I thought you might enjoy the mysteries … who could EVER carve stone like that?
            And have more small meteors hit Russia than is known or written about? Napolean’s army did indeed ‘seize’ an empty city – why set fire to it? What did that sort of destruction, and sicken many of the troops – even if a few Cossaks persued them then as they left, and crowed after about the ‘greatness’ of Russians?

          2. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            I’ve watched a few of the ‘Peruvian’ mysteries too. There’s a lot of evidence around the globe of civilizations we know nothing about (before an event 12,000 years ago) and about which much has been misinterpreted or simply hidden away – but is now being seen by many who open their minds to look at what had been, with some reality.

          3. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            I watched that too..extraordinary ‘Forbidden Archaeology Secrets..and without the subtitles i spoke Portuguese in Brazil..

          4. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            They were more spiritual than the crazy “Sects”.

          5. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Napoleon wanted to make peace the English didn’t want Napoleon to have Russia as allie.. i don’t know about radioactive meteor..the fire destroyed the stores they had nothing to eat for the winter, they became sick.

          6. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            I saw some of the amazing armour in a Polish Museum, which had never been used because there were no wars sinking soldiers into the mud when it was ‘in vogue’.

    2. Hind Abyad Avatar
      Hind Abyad

      The CIA Scandal.

      1. Rudy1947 Avatar

        Twilight Zone Theme.

      2. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        Las time they tried to train the locals to defend themselves, hardly anyone showed up for the lessons. ;-))) And ‘prepared in a week’?? Army-Stores can’t hand out uniforms that fast. :-))

        1. Hind Abyad Avatar
          Hind Abyad

          They have thousands of uniformes.

          1. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            But like the beards, there’s no uniformity of those.

          2. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Nice uniforms.. i wonder where they found them..in Mars 20,000 uniforms were ceased.

          3. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Love the dessert version on Snow-shoes. 😉 Don’t see “thousands of killers” there …. however I’m sure uniforms, just like the weapons, can be stolen from bases, etc, overtaken at any time in the last 5 years … we’ve seen pics of kids half-dressed in them.

          4. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            I don’t understand why you insist in not believing..it’s OK.
            Oh, and i’m anti Kurd now since i learned they want to create a federation and balkanise Syria. Kurdish #YPG uses child soldiers, media only chooses to highlight their use of female fighters. This boy Died.

          5. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            After 5 years of it all, I’m sure there’s ‘tensions’.
            “the attack prompted speculations to run rife” .. and why not?? I’m surprised that “the allegiances of the Assyrians in Syria” hasn’t been like the ‘Wolf on the Fold’ when it comes to the ‘lines’ drawn up because of the whole thing. And that’s why the car-bombers do their bombing too … to make it all a mess of suspicions and distrust.

          6. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            I didn’t say Kurds were perfect. I assumed some of them wanted Kurdistan back – like all those fighting for their ‘Traditional Homelands’, etc, etc, etc …. And as for kids wanting to be ‘Men’, at some point in any war someone will say, ‘ok .. can you carry this gun’? Hell, only 5 or so years later they conscript them in most places – especially if short of 20-yr-olds. Sending the 50-yr-olds would result in a bitchy slow-moving army anywhere.
            (If they sent me, I’d want a 4-wheel Segway ..)
            AND I can also assume there are 3 different main ‘parties’ of Kurds because they ARE NOT all simply bombers and killers and wanna-be dictators. Getting help from anywhere is the same thing Palestinians have tried … NO? Are they a ‘cohesive group’ anyway’??
            At least Kurds have a vote that means something, it seems.
            And if Israel offers ‘help’, they simply do the same thing all the others do in trying to pin down some ‘allies’ or make political moves for their own safety – as others do. And just as badly too. The article says they are ‘open to ties’, NOT that there ARE any .. YET!

          7. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Nobody wants help the Christians living in a Sea of Moslems, Sunni, Shia, Kurds.. Alaouit protected them and they lived in peace before FSA (MB) rebels.

            Remember Sarkozy telling Al Rai in Septembre 2011; “prepare your people for an exodus to Europe Western Powers will invade the Middle East in November” before anything happened? The invasion was vetoed in extremis by Russia and China.

            The Zionist plan continue with Western Allies to balkanise Syria.

            (..don’t mind Kurd “are open to the idea”)? You can’t understand like me..
            How many states do they need?

            Syrians Sunni, Shia, Christians (what remains of them in Levant and in Diaspora) and Arabs will never accept Kurd taking their land and natural resources..
            There will be more wars between alliances, Hamas will fight the breaking of Syria.. All this when there were peace negotiations in Geneva. Erdogan vetoed Kurd invitation to Geneva because of PKK terrorists, while Lavrov said they should invite Syrian Kurd..it’s Israeli who won.
            https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2016/3/16/cold-shouldered-from-syrian-peace-talks-kurds-to-declare-federation

          8. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            No-one wants to help anyone … Deals are still being made.
            http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/refugees-greece-eu-turkey-deal-1428505633

          9. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            West helps Israel help themselves grab Arab land.

          10. MaImequer0 Avatar
            MaImequer0

            Hey sweetie ~~~ Still posting your hezzie love 24/7???? I thought you’d be at the AIPAC conference today with your Trump Flag and hat…. lol…☻☻☻

          11. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            ‘Face of a female suicide bomber: Kurdish terrorist who blew herself up in Turkish capital and killed 37 people is 24-year-old who trained in Syria’
            http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3496507/Kurdish-TAK-militant-group-says-Ankara-bombing-killed-37.html

          12. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Can’t imagine it takes a lot of ‘training’ to push a button to blow yourself up.
            Maybe some brainwashing to get to the discovery that you want to push a button because Anarchy isn’t going well for you. There are a fair number of those idiots these days – kids joining protests for the ‘fun’ of whacking at ‘authority’.
            (population increases ..)

          13. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Infamy? They are secretly allied with Israel.
            http://youtube.linkis.com/5Zu6x

          14. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            ‘After declaring autonomy, Syrian Kurds ‘open to ties with Israel’ :)) SURPRISE!
            http://www.timesofisrael.com/after-declaring-autonomy-will-israel-embrace-syrias-kurds/

          15. They have participated in the course of Leni Riefenstahl….

          16. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            ???

          17. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            A person who is recognized widely as a wonderful ‘talent’, but done in by politics.
            http://www.leni-riefenstahl.de/eng/bio.html

          18. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            “New Syrian Army and the international coalition” West Shit again.
            Syria has it’s army!!
            https://news.vice.com/article/syrias-newest-rebel-army-has-its-sights-on-the-islamic-state

  2. Rudy1947 Avatar

    Paranoid Putie is at it again.

  3. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    How does he figure that ‘Greater Europe’ failed ???
    Ukraine may have failed to protect itself against Russian gangs … as did a passenger plane … and Ukrainian Refugees had to pile out of Crimea Island … but one can hardly say Europe failed.
    And who would ‘reconcile’ easily with 9000 deaths – mostly of non-combatants just like Syria.

  4. PatienceTew Avatar
    PatienceTew

    Putin is sounding more like Kim Jong Un all the time — the ‘shakier’ his regime gets, the more he threatens everyone else.

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