Putin warns the West: Russia is ready for nuclear war - Reuters

[TexasTowelie]

President Vladimir Putin says Russia is technically ready for nuclear war. Speaking ahead of a March 15-17 election, Putin added that the nuclear war scenario was not 'rushing' up and he saw no need for the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine.

[Lovie777]

1. Willing to kill Mother Russia............................

[The Wizard]

2. No one is ready for nuclear war.

[poli-junkie]

3. Sounds desperate 🙄

[Bucky]

4. All bark

But megalomaniacs rarely have a strong sense of avoiding unintended consequences. He'll moonwalk us all into a nuclear war even without intending it.

Shutting down his Ukraine adventure as quickly as possible is the smartest thing we can do

[lapfog_1]

5. if he gave the order to attack anyone with nukes,

it is my belief that some Russian General would pull out his pistol and shoot him.

A nuclear exchange between Russia and any other nuclear armed enemy would NOT be Hiroshima... we have never seen what modern nuclear weapons would do. As for the "modern nuclear triad" versus a "lesser nuclear triad"... that doesn't matter. it only takes a few of the MIRVs to get through... and millions will die and centuries will pass before either combatants recover ( it it ever does ).

No one in Russia ( and I know quite a few ) wants this to happen. Most don't care anymore about Ukraine and Putin's dream of a new USSR.

[keithbvadu2]

6. Now that republicans love Mother Russia. New republican meme - "Russia is our friend".

"... retired Marine Corps Gen. James N. Mattis said in May 2015 that among world threats “in the near term, I think the most dangerous might be Russia.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/6/donald-trump-james-mattis-differ-on-vladimir-putin/

[PortTack]

7. Yes, the biggest stock of nukes reside in russia. A bigger majority of them have not been maintained and are useless

Putin may be power hungry…he’s not crazy.

He’s furious that the west is getting very close to liquidating frozen russian assets, i.e. the nuclear threats.

Plus the upcoming election…. little weak man, has to try and look strong

[Crunchy Frog]

8. How is this even being treated as news at this point.

It's not like they're not making these threats every other week, either directly from Putin, or through surrogates like Medvedev, or russian fascist TV. He sees that it's effective in intimidating the west, so of course he's going to continue using the same strategy.