CIA Says Putin is Just Joking About Nukes

CIA intelligence report:

Vladimir Putin is a totally unhinged lunatic. He could do anything. The crazy bastard just blew up his own multi-billion dollar pipelines just to send a message and try to confuse people.

However, despite this, he is a very reasonable and restrained man, and there is no reason to believe he will use nukes, even while he is threatening that.

RT:

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) does not believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin is currently preparing to deploy nuclear weapons in Ukraine, the agency’s chief William Burns said in an interview on Sunday.

“We have to take very seriously [any] kind of threats, given everything that’s at stake,” Burns told CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell.

However, he acknowledged that “we don’t see any practical evidence today in the US intelligence community that [Putin] is moving closer to actual use” or that there’s any “imminent threat of using tactical nuclear weapons.”

Asked if the Russian leader was bluffing when speaking about being ready to use “all the means at [its] disposal” if the country’s territorial integrity were threatened, Burns said it was “very hard to say at this point.”

The CIA director described the rhetoric from Putin and other high-ranking officials as “reckless and deeply irresponsible.” He also suggested that it was up to US policymakers to communicate to Moscow that such a decision would have “severe consequences.”

There’s no reason to worry about getting nuked. You won’t know it when it happens anyway – it’s just a quick flash and you’re gone.

What you need to be worried about is the single most important thing ever in all of history, excluding the Holocaust: the border integrity of the Ukraine.

People live and die. Empires rise and fall. Hundreds-of-years-old trees get chopped down to make disposable food-trays for black people.

But there is one thing that will remain eternal, until the death of the universe itself: the Ukraine’s 1991 borders.

When you die, it won’t matter what you did. It won’t matter about your family or your kids. Your work won’t matter. The only thing that will matter is how hard you fought to preserve the sacred 1991 borders of the Ukraine.