The Minister of Defense talks about one of the biggest concerns related to the war in Ukraine, the use of nuclear weapons by Russia, the Russians repeatedly implying that they could do this, but Vasile Dincu tells us that we can stay calm.
The Minister of Defense says that the Russians' statements so far are mainly aimed at scaring the world and trying to convince NATO to stop providing aid to Ukraine, but the use of nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine is extremely improbable.
"Of course, with the 6.000 they have, and compared to the international system, they are a small part, compared to all that NATO has, let's say, I haven't done a calculation, but anyway NATO's exceed this amount , the new 50 are nothing, because even the 6.000 are too many to destroy humanity and entire areas.
My opinion is that all the hysteria of some people who normally should calm the world, should have a positive speech, let's say a journalist who runs Russia Today should prove that he is independent, rational, to give credibility to things said.
At the moment, I think there are more ways to try to discourage the defense on the eastern flank, to scare, all these means are propaganda. I tried to study carefully what is the mechanism for launching missiles with nuclear warheads, because they have three types, from the land, from the air, and the naval ones, including the tactical, shorter-range ones, and the strategic ones.
They all correspond to decisions, it's a decree from 2020 by Putin in which they describe 4 situations in which this can be reached. Recently, in a discussion that he had, it seems to me for the first time, the head of the Pentagon with the head of the Russian army, the idea was reiterated that they will only be used if nuclear Russia is attacked, or if it is attacked and there is an imminent foreign occupation of the country.
These things cannot happen because NATO is a defensive alliance, not an offensive one. So they are trying to scare, and I have also seen some statements related to the fact that they want a Ukraine cleansed of Nazis, but clearly these things go head to head, and I don't think we should be scared of a nuclear attack. "
