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Vladimir Putin\u2019s latest move has done little to dampen concerns that the outbreak of World War 3 may be on the horizon.<\/p>\n
Heightened geo-political tensions as a result of the Russia-Ukraine war have been an ever-present factor in recent years, and with no obvious end in sight, global citizens have every right to fear that a conflict involving many, if not all of the world\u2019s major military powers may be imminent.<\/p>\n
If we\u2019re to believe reports from the earliest days of their invasion of Ukraine, Russia had initially planned and presumed to have subdued their neighboring country within a matter of weeks. Now, more than four years after the fact, Russia find themselves in a drawn-out, bloody campaign that\u2019s cost them the lives of untold men, not to mention left their reputation on the world stage in tatters.<\/p>\n
Yet even taking their self-inflicted beleaguered position into account, it\u2019s hard not to look to the future and wonder what further moves Russia are plotting.<\/p>\n
In typically bullish fashion, Vladimir Putin fired a warning to the Baltic states earlier this year concerning potential invasions. New reports now claim he\u2019s made another decision that signals ominous intent to other nations.<\/p>\n
According to Putin\u2019s aide Nikolai Patrushev, Russia has now transferred its naval nuclear forces to a state of full combat readiness.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Russian Navy is capable of ensuring the country\u2019s security across all maritime and oceanic theaters under any scenario,\u201d Patrushev claimed. \u201cOur naval strategic nuclear forces maintain a state of full combat readiness.\u201d<\/p>\n
Patrushev also labeled the Northern European nations, Ukraine, and the AUKUS bloc (consisting of Australia, the UK and US) threats to Russia. According to UNN, he stated that \u201cthe creation of a naval alliance of Northern European countries and Ukraine must be taken into account in the list of military threats to Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n
Reports state that Putin himself ordered the aforementioned transference of naval nuclear forces.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll threats emanating from potential adversaries are taken into account in the development plans of the Navy, in particular in the Strategy for the Development of the Navy until 2050,\u201d Patrushev\u2019s statement read.<\/p>\n
The news follows a claim made by Ukrainian internal affairs minister Anton Gerashchenko in May that Moscow is looking to appeal the International Court of Justice over the \u2018suppression of the rights of Russian speakers\u2019 in the Baltic nations of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe foreign ministry pretends that negotiations \u2018have yielded no results\u2019 and that complaints submitted to the UN and OSCE have been ignored \u2014 therefore, the Kremlin is allegedly forced to go to court,\u201d Gerashchenko wrote on X.<\/p>\n
He continued: \u201cThe scheme is not new. Before the 2008 war in Georgia, Russia spent years talking about the \u2018genocide of Ossetians,\u2019 distributing passports to residents of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and then used the claim of \u2018protecting Russian citizens\u2019 as a formal justification for invasion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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