Lavrov invokes Russia's nuclear capacity in a drunken speech at the UN

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Russia invokes its nuclear capacity in a UN speech that's full of bile toward the West

Russia’s top diplomat warned Saturday against “trying to fight to victory with a nuclear power,” delivering a U.N. General Assembly speech packed with condemnations of what Russia sees as Western attempts at global domination and machinations in Ukraine -- and even inside the United Nations itself.

Three days after Russian President Vladimir Putin aired a shift in his country’s nuclear doctrine, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused the West of using Ukraine — which Russia invaded in February 2022 — as a tool to try “to defeat” Moscow strategically, and “preparing Europe for it to also throw itself into this suicidal escapade.”

“I’m not going to talk here about the senselessness and the danger of the very idea of trying to fight to victory with a nuclear power, which is what Russia is,” he said.

Putin’s recent announcement — which appeared to lower significantly the threshold for the possible use of Russia’s nuclear arsenal — was seen as a message to the U.S. and other Western countries as Ukraine seeks their go-ahead to strike Russia with longer-range weapons.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/russia-invokes-nuclear-capacity-un-170736394.html

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1. Russian bravado comes from a bottle

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2. Reminds Me Of This Scene In Tombstone.

Where Doc says to Johnny Ringo, “In vino veritas.” (In wine, there is truth)

Except Doc can, and does, back it up. Not so much with Lavrov and his bottle of Stoli.