{"id":95980,"date":"2025-06-06T03:00:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T07:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=95980"},"modified":"2025-06-05T16:40:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T20:40:18","slug":"former-putin-advisor-claims-nuclear-strike-is-an-appropriate-reaction-to-ukraine-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/06\/06\/former-putin-advisor-claims-nuclear-strike-is-an-appropriate-reaction-to-ukraine-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Putin advisor claims nuclear strike is an appropriate reaction to Ukraine attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.steynonline.com\/15360\/war-what-for\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Steyn<\/a> surveys the media reaction to Sergey Markov&#8217;s foaming-at-the-mouth threats of nuclear escalation in the Russo-Ukraine conflict:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ukrainian-attacks-on-Russian-bases-20250601.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ukrainian-attacks-on-Russian-bases-20250601-480x261.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"261\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-95936\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ukrainian-attacks-on-Russian-bases-20250601-480x261.jpg 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ukrainian-attacks-on-Russian-bases-20250601-853x465.jpg 853w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ukrainian-attacks-on-Russian-bases-20250601-150x82.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ukrainian-attacks-on-Russian-bases-20250601-768x418.jpg 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ukrainian-attacks-on-Russian-bases-20250601.jpg 1155w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here&#8217;s a cheery headline from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mk.ru\/politics\/2025\/06\/01\/markov-ataka-na-strategicheskuyu-aviaciyu-rossii-yavlyaetsya-osnovaniem-dlya-primeneniya-yao.html\" target=\"_blank\">the Russian press<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>Markov: an attack on Russia&#8217;s strategic aviation is grounds for the use of nuclear weapons.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That would be Sergey Markov, former advisor to Tsar Vlad, who admittedly is somewhat partial to nuke-rattling: in the early stages of the Ukraine war, he threatened to nuke the UK, for what reason I forget &mdash; the exciting new Islamic blasphemy laws? the paedo rape gangs?<\/p>\n<p>This time, however, Mr Markov was responding to the weekend&#8217;s Ukrainian drone strike deep inside Russia. By &#8220;deep&#8221;, I mean Siberia. Which supposedly took out forty of Putin&#8217;s 120 strategic bombers using drones smuggled into the country via trucks which then fanned out and parked within range of various air bases.<\/p>\n<p>Which is brilliant and innovative, in the sense that Castro blowing up a third of the USAF during the Cuban missile-crisis negotiations would have been. Right now, the only thing standing between the planet and the Third World War is Vladimir Putin&#8217;s forbearance. And, as all the smart people assured us in the spring of 2022, the Russian not-so-strongman was &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/cepa.org\/article\/the-many-deaths-of-vladimir-putin\/\" target=\"_blank\">dying<\/a>&#8221; (Christopher Steele, sole proprietor of Dossiers R Us) or dead, either of which condition can make one&#8217;s nuclear-war judgment a little erratic. Headline from the UK <em>Daily Mirror<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/world-news\/vladimir-putin-dead-russia-ukraine-27093054\" target=\"_blank\">almost exactly three years ago<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em><strong>Vladimir Putin may already be dead with body double taking his place, MI6 chiefs claim<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That headline is 100 per cent accurate if you remove the words &#8220;Vladimir&#8221; and &#8220;Putin&#8221; and replace them with &#8220;Joe&#8221; and &#8220;Biden&#8221; respectively. Incidentally, analyse each nation&#8217;s advances in body-double technology by comparing &#8220;Biden&#8221;&#8216;s ability to host a G7 with &#8220;Putin&#8221;&#8216;s ability to host a BRICS summit. That&#8217;s the way to bet if it comes to World War Three. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R &#8211; Zakarpattia), was in Kiev to meet with Zelenskyyyy the day before Operation Bring It On. He had the affect of a chap who knew what was coming &mdash; although one notes he has yet to make good on his comparatively less ambitious pledge to sink Greta Thunberg&#8217;s Gaza boat.<\/p>\n<p>Forty years ago, everybody claimed to be super-worried about imminent mushroom clouds. A bestselling poster of the day:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Gone-With-The-Wind-parody-poster-Reagan-Thatcher.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Gone-With-The-Wind-parody-poster-Reagan-Thatcher-445x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"445\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-95981\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Gone-With-The-Wind-parody-poster-Reagan-Thatcher-445x640.jpg 445w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Gone-With-The-Wind-parody-poster-Reagan-Thatcher-417x600.jpg 417w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Gone-With-The-Wind-parody-poster-Reagan-Thatcher-104x150.jpg 104w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Gone-With-The-Wind-parody-poster-Reagan-Thatcher-768x1104.jpg 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Gone-With-The-Wind-parody-poster-Reagan-Thatcher.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyone care to remake the above with Senator Graham and Victoria Nuland, She-Wolf of the Donbass? Ah, but maybe it doesn&#8217;t work as well with Deep State non-household-names in the leads. It&#8217;s not so long since Lindsey was telling Zelenskyyyy to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FpIqHvWJbuQ\" target=\"_blank\">resign<\/a>, but he&#8217;s apparently back on board. And, more generally, most western media were happy to report the drone strike as more of a poke in the eye to Trump than to Putin. Headline from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/country-that-allegedly-had-no-cards-to-play-keeps-finding-new-cards-to-play\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>National Review<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><strong><em>Country That Allegedly Had No Cards to Play Keeps Finding New Cards to Play<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is in reference to Trump&#8217;s jibe from February that Ukraine had &#8220;no cards to play&#8221;. The question then arises: Where did Z find these &#8220;new cards&#8221;? When Pete Hegseth took over as US Defence Secretary, he quickly confirmed what every sentient creature had long suspected &mdash; that the Pentagon had been micro-managing Ukraine&#8217;s end of the war for the previous three years. Are they still doing so? In defiance of their nominal commander-in-chief?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Steyn surveys the media reaction to Sergey Markov&#8217;s foaming-at-the-mouth threats of nuclear escalation in the Russo-Ukraine conflict: Here&#8217;s a cheery headline from the Russian press: Markov: an attack on Russia&#8217;s strategic aviation is grounds for the use of nuclear weapons. That would be Sergey Markov, former advisor to Tsar Vlad, who admittedly is somewhat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,5,1119,663],"tags":[123,107,149,726,671],"class_list":["post-95980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-military","category-russia","category-weapons","tag-aircraft","tag-nukes","tag-uav","tag-ukraine","tag-vladimirputin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-oY4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95982,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95980\/revisions\/95982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}