{"id":1697103,"date":"2022-10-15T06:30:11","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T10:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1697103"},"modified":"2022-10-16T19:05:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T23:05:03","slug":"putin-must-know-the-price-he-will-pay-for-using-nuclear-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/putin-must-know-the-price-he-will-pay-for-using-nuclear-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin Must Know the Price He Will Pay for Using Nuclear Weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fputin-must-know-the-price-he-will-pay-for-using-nuclear-weapons%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1697103&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><strong>Here\u2019s How the West Should Respond to Putin\u2019s Nuclear Threats:<\/strong> Russian President Vladimir Putin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/10\/desperate-putin-russia-is-upgrading-ancient-t-62-tanks-for-ukraine-war\/\">humiliated<\/a> by repeated defeats in Ukraine, increasing hints that his forces might use nuclear weapons to regain momentum, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/09\/could-russias-sudden-ukraine-retreat-mean-a-tactical-nuclear-weapons-strike-is-coming\/\">retake lost ground<\/a>, and simply punish the Ukrainians. <\/p>\n[embedded content] <\/p>\n<p>How Should the West Respond to Putin\u2019s Nuclear Threats? <\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/09\/give-ukraines-volodymyr-zelensky-the-nobel-peace-prize\/\">Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a> is <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/putin-nuclear-weapons-only-knows-171200673.html\">correct<\/a> that Putin will likely use nuclear weapons if he believes he will face no consequences. Putin\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/10\/sneaky-putin-is-russia-getting-weapons-and-ammo-from-belarus\/\">ego<\/a> is paramount. He both despises Zelenskyy for outshining him militarily, politically, and diplomatically and resents that Ukraine\u2019s success has impinged on the historical legacy Putin sought to craft. Whereas Putin saw himself as surpassing the legacy of Catherine the Great, who expanded Russian territory and ushered in a golden age, today, he has become a smaller, weaker version of Tsar Nicholas II, under whose rule Russia collapsed. <\/p>\n<p>More practically, Putin instinctively knows that if he loses, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/09\/why-does-putin-fear-peace-with-ukraine-he-knows-revolution-is-coming\/\">will face revolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While the West is right to fear Putin\u2019s possible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/putin-and-parkinsons-what-experts-say-about-his-health\/a-61597476\">Parkinsonic<\/a> finger on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/09\/would-russia-dare-use-tactical-nuclear-weapons-in-ukraine-2\/\">nuclear button<\/a>, it is crucial not to fumble the response. By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2022\/10\/12\/biden-armageddon-putin-closer-nuclear-war\/8198000001\/?gnt-cfr=1\">telegraphing fear<\/a> of nuclear Armageddon, President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/10\/bidens-national-security-strategy-targets-china-and-russia\/\">Joe Biden<\/a> only enhances Putin\u2019s power and encourages further brinksmanship. Even worse has been the response of French President Emmanuel Macron, who has undermined deterrence by <a href=\"https:\/\/thewest.com.au\/news\/world\/emmanuel-macron-i-wont-fire-nukes-even-if-theyre-unleashed-by-putin-c-8544970\">announcing<\/a> that he would stand down France\u2019s own nuclear forces in the event of a Russian launch. This is dangerous because it undermines the deterrence that provides the best means to avoid a nuclear exchange. <\/p>\n<p>To shrink or retreat in the face of a nuclear threat would guarantee more frequent nuclear crises. If Putin\u2019s tactics work, Kim Jong-un will regularly threaten Seoul or Tokyo. Pakistan, whose economy makes Russia look solvent, will threaten Delhi and Mumbai. China will use nuclear weapons to extort the world over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/10\/will-taiwans-new-submarines-give-it-an-edge-over-china\/\">Taiwan<\/a>, a country to which it has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/06\/one-china-is-a-lie\/\">no historical<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/feature\/china-has-no-legal-claim-taiwan-205190\">legal<\/a> right.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, it is time for the West to make clear, both publicly and in detail privately, the consequences of Putin\u2019s actions. <\/p>\n<p>Russia and Putin Must Pay a High Price <\/p>\n<p>First, it is time to publish a list of all those subject to death should Putin use even a low-yield nuclear weapon. In 2006, I did a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/articles\/an-arrow-in-our-quiver\/\">deep dive into the legality<\/a>, both in international and U.S. law, with regard to assassination. Bottom-line upfront: The conventional wisdom that targeted assassinations violate the laws of war and Congress is wrong. To eradicate military leaders and civilian commanders is ethnical if it can forestall far greater violence. For men like Putin and the generals who surround him to believe they can order the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and their own people with impunity is counterproductive to pursuing peace. Simply put, if even Putin\u2019s most loyal henchmen understand that a nuclear blast in Ukraine will lead to the end of their own life, they are more likely to forestall Putin\u2019s actions. The risks inherent in cutting Putin down are high, but they are better than the certain death the West must inflict should<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s How the West Should Respond to Putin\u2019s Nuclear Threats: Russian President Vladimir Putin, humiliated by repeated defeats in Ukraine, increasing hints that his forces might use nuclear weapons to regain momentum, retake lost ground, and simply punish the Ukrainians. [embedded content] How Should the West Respond to Putin\u2019s Nuclear Threats? Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1697105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1697103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1697103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1697105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1697103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1697103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1697103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}