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10th June 2025
10:56am BST
Vladimir Putin seems to have little faith in Europe when it comes to nuclear warfare.
The Russian president issued a terrifying warning to Europe when he was being interviewed at a panel discussion at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum last year.
Sergei Karaganov, a Russian political scientist, who was also on the panel, said 'There used to be a nuclear safety mechanism that is now seriously weakened'.
He went on to claim that for Russia to win the war, they must climb the 'ladder of nuclear escalation'.
Nevertheless, Putin argued that the world is 'already scared' of the threat of a nuclear war.
"If God forbid, it comes to strikes, everyone should realise that Russia has an early warning system for missile attacks. The US has it. Europe does not," Putin warned.
"They are more or less defenceless in this sense."
He continued: "If those with whom we exchange such strikes [cease to] exist, whether the Americans will get involved in this exchange at the level of strategic weapons I doubt very much.
"The Europeans should think about it. But I assume that it will never come to that.
"We don’t have that need. Our armed forces so vastly outnumber them in conventional weapons that there is no need. I would ask you not to mention such things in vain."
Former head of the British armed forces during the war in Afghanistan, Colonel Richard Kemp, said in an interview with LADbible that an angry Putin could take further action 'if NATO countries got more heavily involved in the defence of Ukraine'.
"He's probably not going to be driving tanks into Western Europe, but he has people all around Europe who are ready to carry out sabotage attacks against our countries, and things like cyber attacks, which happen fairly frequently and that could be intensified," Kemp clarified.
Kemp went on to add that the UK has now 'woken up' to the possible threat of WW3.
However, a study from 2022 suggests that a week-long war between the US, its allies, and Russia would kill 360 million people directly and five billion out of eight billion people worldwide would die from starvation.
So it's clear to say that a nuclear war is bad news for all countries involved, including Russia.
