Russia may use Belarus to launch nuclear moves as the world enters what may be the early days of World War III, an enemy of Putin has warned.
Kyiv would be destroyed within minutes if Belarus followed Mad Vlad’s orders to bomb it with missiles from Moscow, Dr. Yuri Felshtinsky warned.
Dr. Felshtinsky of Blowing Up Ukraine told The Sun Online, “It’s 1939, 1940 now and February 24 will be written in the history books as the beginning of [World War III].
“It is our September 1, 1939.
“It is, how will this war continue, and how much are we going to pay for it?”
The Russian-born academic, who now lives in the United States, said Putin was too scared to come face-to-face with NATO.
Instead, it would force Minsk to launch a proxy nuclear attack: the determination of the West.
Russia fears turning nuclear war into action, it has been warned through NATO that it will face a colossal reaction from the West.
“Knowing Putin and knowing what he is like in terms of unconventional tactics to deal with him, I would probably look to move nuclear weapons into Belarus,” Dr. Felshtinsky told The Sun Online.
“Nobody communicates about Belarus and the explanation for why I think it communicates about Belarus is that, of course, there is an order not to communicate about Belarus, but also because Putin intends to use nuclear weapons to attack from there. “
So far, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, as Europe’s last dictator, has been halted before joining Moscow in Ukraine.
But it allowed Russia to release drones, fighter jets and troops from its territory, as well as being one of the staging grounds for the initial attack on Kyiv early in the war.
And that could soon be replaced after a close friend of Putin announced that Minsk and Moscow would deploy a “joint military group,” and Ukraine says Russia plans to move up to 20,000 troops to Belarus.
And in a blow to the West in August, Lukashenko said his country’s fighter jets had been swapped for nuclear weapons from Russia, and before this year, Russia promised to send him Iskander nuclear-capable missiles.
Lukashenko also caused panic among Western leaders when he baselessly accused NATO of contemplating a nuclear attack in Minsk, a comment many see as a pretext for Belarus to join the war in Ukraine.
Ukrainian intelligence reported that Putin sought to pressure Lukashenko to join the war in Ukraine.
And earlier this year, Belarus announced it would lift the ban on nuclear weapons, further stoking fears.
The Russian and Belarusian governments allow themselves to frighten and blackmail the whole of Europe and Ukraine above all with a nuclear attack.
Dr. Felshtinsky told The Sun Online: “Russia does not have a traditional military and the only way to eliminate the nuclear threat, the West or NATO or both, is in Belarus because I don’t think Putin will use nuclear weapons from Russian territory. “
“It would be suicide for him.
“I would do it with Belarus and seek to remove Belarus from Putin’s control. “
It comes as Putin and his clumsy entourage reddened as their valuable Crimea exploded in a fireball on Saturday.
The bridge, which connects Crimea to mainland Russia and is a major source of direction for Putin’s troops in southern Ukraine, partially collapsed after an explosion rocked a segment of the bridge, an attack allegedly carried out by Ukrainian intelligence.
In response, Putin launched a volley of rockets into Ukraine, hitting civilian infrastructure in an effort to “wipe Ukraine off the map,” according to President Zelensky.
Putin Kyiv a “nuclear terrorist” and warned that he would strike with more devastating attacks.
He said: “If attempts at terrorist attacks on our territory continue, Russia’s responses will be tough and, in terms of scale, will be adjusted to the point of the threats posed by the Russian Federation.
“No one has the slightest doubt about it,” he said.
Dr Felshtinsky said Putin was seeking a “quick victory” in Ukraine to show the Russians that the army was controlling and winning on the battlefield after a series of embarrassing losses.
“Putin is trying to claim a victory and he’s basically doing it for the Russians and with this idea that you can’t try to take back Russian territories. It’s kind of a child’s game, but that’s where it is now.
“So it will try to annex more territory and occupy more territory. One wonders if he could do it because after seven months of war, he has no army or traditional forces to fight in Ukraine. “
Dr. Felshtinksy said the only way to prevent Putin from giving Russia a “decisive defeat. “
“When I say decisively, I mean the point Germany faced in 1945 or Japan faced in 1945. “
He said Ukraine had “every right to preemptively attack Belarus and Russia” in war, especially when “the Russian and Belarusian governments allow themselves to scare and blackmail the whole of Europe and Ukraine, above all, with a nuclear attack. “
He said: “This war for Putin is opposed to the EU, NATO, Europe and the United States. To prevent it within Ukraine’s borders, we will have to help Ukraine as much as possible with weapons and money. “
“We will have to give the Ukrainian army a loose hand to remove this trail that leads to victory over Putin. “
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