Bolton threatens to assassinate Putin!
The Former US National Security Adviser John Bolton said on Tuesday that the United States could “assassinate” Russian President Vladimir Putin if he used nuclear weapons in Ukraine, warning that the move amounted to “signing his suicide note”.
“We need to make it clear that if Putin orders the use of a tactical nuclear weapon, he signs his suicide note… To deter him, if he falls under the pressure of harsh conditions” Bolton said in an interview with local British radio station.
Bolton continued, “You can ask Qassem Soleimani in Iran what happened, when we decided that someone was a threat to the United States”.
Soleimani was killed in a US raid in Baghdad in 2020.
“I think any time we think of a potential use of nuclear weapons, we have to take it very seriously, but I also think we have to be very clear about that,” he added.
“We cannot allow the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine or anywhere else by terrorists like Iran and North Korea, nor by Russia or China, without holding the person who made the decision fully responsible,” Bolton added.
He pointed out that there are many proposals to destroy Russian forces inside Ukraine, the Black Sea Fleet, and others… “I don’t disagree on that… but the person who takes that decision must be deterred from the beginning”.
Bolton indicated his annoyance with Putin’s comments, in which he said last week: “I cannot imagine the use of a tactical nuclear weapon that wouldn’t lead to Armageddon (the battle of the end of the world)”.
The US President Joe Biden said at a fundraising event for the Democratic Party in New York last week that Russian threats to use nuclear weapons endanger humanity.
Speaking of the nuclear threat, Biden said that for the first time since the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, “we have a threat of a nuclear weapon if, in fact, things continue on the path they are on”.
The US president said he knows Russian President Vladimir Putin fairly well and “isn’t joking when he talks about the possible use of tactical nuclear weapons, biological or chemical weapons”.
Biden stressed that Putin “isn’t joking when he talks about the possible use of tactical nuclear weapons, or biological or chemical weapons, because his army… Is very under-performing”.
“I don’t think there is anything like being able to easily use a tactical nuclear weapon without ending up causing Armageddon”, Bolton said.
