U.S. intelligence officials told reporters on Friday that there is ‘no reason to doubt’ Russian President Vladimir Putin’s claims that he moved nuclear weapons into Belarus, according to CNN.
Senior Defense Intelligence Agency officials also said they don’t believe the movement alters the global nuclear landscape or increases the risk of nuclear attack, the outlet reported.
Putin announced in June that Russia had delivered its first nuclear warheads into Belarus as part of a plan to deploy tactical nuclear bombs in the country bordering Ukraine.
“This is a deterrence measure [against] all those who think about Russia and its strategic defeat,” he said at the time.
The Russian president also claimed that it was only “the first batch,” the Russian state-run outlet TASS reported. “We will complete this work by the end of this year.”
There is roughly a zero percent chance that President Putin would authorize an unprovoked attack on Poland. It is almost certain that if the Poland-Belarus powder keg does explode, it is because the US federal government chose to explode it.
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