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©MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty ImagesRussian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with the head of Russia’s Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, a big business lobby group, at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 2, 2022.
Russiasortied ballistic missile submarines and land-based mobile missile launcherson March 1 in what was called a drill.
Two days earlier,Vladimir Putinput Russian nuclear forces on“special combat readiness,” in other words, high alert.
Minutes before the Ukraine invasion, the Russian presidentwarnedof “consequences that you have never experienced in your history.”
“Yes, Putin might do the unthinkable,”saidJames Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, toBusiness Insider.
For almost a decade, Russian doctrine has been to “escalate to deescalate,” to threaten or even to use nuclear weapons early in a conventional conflict or crisis…
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