Putin’s Nuclear Threat

Ukraine regrets the deal under which it gave up its own nuclear weapons in a pact with President Clinton.

Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP
A Yars intercontinental ballistic missile is test-fired from the Plesetsk launchpad in northwestern Russia, October 29, 2024. Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP

President Putin’s nuclear saber-rattling today is a reminder, with the election a week away, that the war in Ukraine will be a foreign policy debacle bequeathed by President Biden to his successor. Mr. Putin’s launch of nuclear missiles, simulating a “response to an enemy first strike,” as Reuters puts it, comes as America and its allies in the North Atlantic Treaty are weighing whether to allow Kyiv to fire Western missiles deep into Russian territory.

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