Sergei Lavrov accuses west of using Ukraine ‘to defeat’ Russia days after Putin shifts Moscow’s nuclear posture

Sergei Lavrov accuses west of using Ukraine ‘to defeat’ Russia days after Putin shifts Moscow’s nuclear posture

Russia’s top diplomat warned on Saturday against “trying to fight to victory with a nuclear power”, delivering a UN general assembly speech packed with condemnations of what Russia sees as western machinations in Ukraine and elsewhere – including inside the United Nations itself.

Three days after Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, aired a shift in his country’s nuclear doctrine, his foreign minister, Sergei 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.

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    152·
    2 months ago

    So, y’all remember that twitter profile “Shit My Dad Says”?

    One of them was “when people start talking about sick size, don’t whip out a ruler; keep your mouth shut, stuff your crotch and keep your pants on.”

    (Or something like that.)

    The more they insist that their nukes … whelp. The more we think we should let them whip one out.

    • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      English
      61·
      2 months ago

      Another such wise man once told me that prefacing a joke with “Oh, man, this is hilarious” is not unlike telling people you’re a sexual teeranna’soris. 🤌🏽