CIA Director Williams Burns said that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threats should not intimidated the West.
There was a real risk in the fall of 2022 that Russia could use nuclear weapons in its war against Ukraine, CIA Director William Burns said.William Burns"None of us should take lightly the risks of escalation," Burns said Saturday in a moderated conversation with the U.K.'s secret intelligence chief Richard Moore at the"There was a moment in the fall of 2022 when I think there was a genuine risk of the potential use of tactical nuclear weapons," Burns said.
"I have never thought, however, and this is the view of my agency, that we should be unnecessarily intimidated by that. Putin's a bully. He's going to continue to saber-rattle," Burns added.'s order, Burns met with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Naryshkin, at the end of 2022 to reiterate"the consequences" of nuclear escalation, the CIA director recounted.
Those hints have grown louder since Ukraine's offensive into Russia's Kursk region in early August, which Putin has pledged to match with aThe Kursk offensive boosted morale for Ukrainian troops, Burns said, and in turn, rattled the Kremlin:"It has exposed some of the vulnerabilities of Putin's Russia and of his military."is defensive in nature and founded on the principle of deterrence.
But in the wake Ukraine's incursion into Kursk, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said last Sunday that the Kremlin is working on "There is a clear direction to make adjustment," Ryabkov said, though he did not specify details on whether the nuclear doctrine changes would ultimately be finalized.
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