Putin Isn’t Bluffing

 Putin is not the kind of guy who’s gonna say, “you were right, I was wrong.  Sorry for this whole fiasco.”  No.  He’s warned the West that he won’t accept NATO on his door step anymore than we’d accept the Russian army making a massive base in Cuba including some nukes.  If he’s pushed into a corner he may decide to make good on his use of nukes rather than run away with his tail between his legs.

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Serbia's president has issued a stark warning regarding the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, claiming that Vladimir Putin is 'not bluffing' about the potential use of nuclear missiles. 

According to Serbian publication Novosti, President Aleksander Vucic, who is one of Putin's allies who claims to know the Russian leader 'very well', told journalists: 'Don't think that someone somewhere is bluffing, unfortunately, nobody is bluffing and, unfortunately, we are walking into mild disaster'. 

Vucic's ominous comment comes after Ukraine carried out its first strike on Russian territory with a US-supplied long-range missile on Tuesday - just days after the Biden administration gave Kyiv the green light despite fears it could escalate the conflict beyond control. 

Meanwhile, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Friday that there is a real risk of a global conflict breaking out after Russia fired a hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile at a Ukrainian city.

Putin had said on Thursday that the strike was a response to the U.S. and UK allowing Kyiv to strike Russian territory with advanced Western weapons, a move he said had given the conflict 'elements of a global character'.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called the Russian missile strike another escalation after deployment of North Korean troops on Russian soil.

https://www.msn.com/en-ae/news/other/putin-isnt-bluffing-serbias-president-warns/ar-AA1uzKGQ