Putin's sick KGB ploy to bully Ukraine into submission laid bare as WW3 hangs in the balance

Anthony Glees, an world successful information and defence and a lecturer astatine the University of Buckingham, has offered the Mirror investigation into the concern astir Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin's sick ploy to bully Ukraine into submission has been laid bare arsenic fears astir World War Three grow.

Anthony Glees, an adept connected European affairs and security, told america helium unsurprised to spot Putin, 72, instrumentality the "same old" approach. The world believes Russia would respond with a "nuclear response" to immoderate tactics the West whitethorn deploy successful the coming weeks.

Speaking exclusively to the Mirror, Mr Glees, besides a lecturer astatine the University of Buckingham, said: "In 1 sense, Putin is present simply putting his signature to a doctrine helium himself acceptable retired earlier the US Elections. So the aforesaid aged substance of cold-blooded threats of unit and atomic conflict, backed up by the appalling slaughter connected the battlefield that helium started and the transgression slaughter of thousands of Ukrainian citizens successful the monolithic drone and rocket attacks he's launched with the assistance of Iran and North Korea. But it's besides existent that present Putin has codified his pseudo-legal attack (so emblematic of the mode the KGB utilized to endanger and intimidate its opponents successful the USSR).

"He's saying, with acold brazen cheek, not conscionable that helium would deploy nukes if Russia (or Belarus ) faced aggression from accepted unit of arms if this were to 'threaten our sovereignty oregon territorial integrity' but that if a conventionally equipped authorities (i.e. Ukraine) were 'supported' by a atomic powerfulness (i.e. The USA - oregon the UK), this would beryllium considered a 'joint attack' connected Russia and beryllium met by a atomic response."

Putin has relaxed the threshold for Russia’s usage of its atomic weapons, a determination that follows Joe Biden ’s determination to fto Ukraine onslaught targets wrong Russian territory with US-supplied longer-range missiles. The document, called the "Fundamentals of State Police successful the Sphere of Nuclear Deterrence", says: "Nuclear weapons (NW) are an utmost measurement to support the sovereignty of the country. At the aforesaid time, owed to the emergence of caller subject threats and risks, Russia needed to clarify the parameters that let the usage of NW."

The caller doctrine allows for a imaginable atomic effect by Moscow adjacent to a accepted onslaught connected Russia by immoderate federation that is supported by a atomic power. While the doctrine envisions a imaginable atomic effect by Russia to specified a accepted strike, it is formulated broadly to debar a steadfast committedness to usage atomic weapons and support Putin’s options open.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov emphasised that the Ukrainian onslaught successful Bryansk marked an escalation and urged the US and different Western allies to survey the modernized atomic doctrine.