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The head of the European Council Charles Michel told reporters at the weekend that if NATO enters the conflict between Russia and Ukraine it will almost certainly lead to a third world war, which will be nuclear.
In underreported comments, Michel told the Spanish newspaper El Pais “Russia is a nuclear power and we are well aware that if this conflict turns into [a conflict] between NATO and Russia, we will roll down into the Third World War.”
The former Belgian prime minister added that any global conflict would mean a “dimension of a different nature” because of nuclear weapons.
A fortnight ago, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that if a third World War were to take place, it would be “nuclear” and “destructive,” as Moscow put its nuclear forces on a “special regime of combat duty”.
I advocate pragmatism,” Michel noted, adding “We need to talk to whoever is in the Kremlin today,” reasoning that “democracies” should talk to nations even if they are “not democratic.”
Michel also noted that the EU is attempting “to support [Ukraine] as much as possible” without “aggravating the conflict,” but warned that “taboos” have already been “broken” by providing Ukraine with $1 billion in military aid.
Michel conceded that despite pleas from the Ukrainian government to let it immediately join the EU, “Enlargement is a sensitive issue, on which not all European countries have the same opinion.”
Last week, U.S. intelligence officials claimed that Vladimir Putin is ‘desperate’ to end the conflict over Ukraine, with some privately suggesting he could set off a tactical nuclear weapon in a Ukrainian city to get the job done.
There were even wild claims that Putin has moved his family to a secret Siberian underground city in preparation of nuclear war.
The warnings came after the Russian Ministry of Defense claimed that Ukrainian intelligence conspired with anti-Russian extremist militants to stage a false flag attack on a nuclear reactor in the Ukrainian city of Kharkov.
The Ukrainian government also announced last week that they had detected “elevated levels of radiation” after claiming Russia deliberately attacked a nuclear plant, calling for NATO to impose a no fly zone, but IAEA officials later clarified that no leak had been detected.
People in multiple different European countries are panic buying iodine pills in fear of nuclear fallout caused by the conflict in Ukraine.
They’re flying off the shelves in Romania at the same rate as after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
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