Putin Issues Explicit Nuclear Threat Against the West in Bid to Cut US Support for Ukraine

• Vladimir Putin made an explicit nuclear threat against the West this week.
• But experts remain skeptical of Putin’s nuclear saber-rattling after three years of similar threats.
• One expert suggested Putin is drumming up fear among American voters to cut US support for Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a new nuclear threat this week, threatening the West over its support for Ukraine in his most explicit intimidation tactic yet.

But a regional expert says Putin’s recent bout of nuclear saber-rattling is less a promise of mutually assured destruction and more an attempt to mobilize the American public against ongoing assistance for Ukraine.

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