France Says Putin Wants To Perceive NATO Has Nuclear Weapons

French Minister stated that Putin wants to grasp that NATO, too, is a nuclear alliance.

Paris:

French Overseas Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian stated on Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin, when making threats about utilizing nuclear weapons, wants to grasp that NATO, too, is a nuclear alliance.

Requested whether or not Putin’s risk of “such penalties that you’ve by no means encountered in your historical past” was tantamount to threatening to make use of nuclear weapons within the Ukraine battle, Le Drian stated it was understood as such.

“Sure, I believe that Vladimir Putin should additionally perceive that the Atlantic alliance is a nuclear alliance. That’s all I’ll say about this,” Le Drian stated on French tv TF1.

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