Vladimir Putinalarmed Emmanuel Macron in a conversation between them when he used the analogy of the US nuclear strikes on Japan during WWII, claiming that a war can be won without needing to launch a nuclear strike on a major city.
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Not the first time Putin uses the US precedent in WWII
The US launched nuclear strikes on Japan between August 6 and 9 in 1945. While the attacks sparred Tokyo, the Japanese capital, they devastated the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands.
The strikes led the Japanese emperor to surrender marking also the end of WWII.
Meanwhile, it’s not the first time Vladimir Putinemployed the analogy, warning about what he could resort to in Ukraine given the US precedent in Japan.
During late September, during a televised address Putin presented Russia’s annexation of four Ukrainian regions and threatened the west about the use of nuclear weapons, saying he is not bluffing.
During this address, the Russian President accused the US of creating a ‘precedent’.
Now reports have emerged that Putin has alarmed France’s Emmanuel Macron, when saying that a major city need not be targeted with a nuclear weapon in order to win a war, New York Post reports.
‘You don’t need to attack major cities in order to end a war.’
A hint by Putin
The comments by Vladimir Putin left Emmanuel Macron ‘distinctly alarmed’, and according to a French Government source of the Daily Mail, it sheds light on Putin’s plans in East Ukraine.
‘It sounded like a very heavy hint that Putin might detonate a tactical nuclear weapon in the east of Ukraine while leaving Kyiv intact. That appeared to be the thrust of his remarks.’
The revelation about the Hiroshima/Nagasaki analogy comes after Vladimir Putin called on citizens of the city of Kherson to evacuate from the city.
It is unknown when this phone call between the two world leaders too place, but the last publicised agenda of a phone call between Putin and Macron took place on September 11.
Sources used:
-Daily Mail: ‘Putin's deranged Hiroshima threat: Russian leader tells Macron the 1945 atom bomb is proof 'you don't have to launch nuclear strike on a major city to win a war'
-New York Post: ‘Putin ‘alarms’ Macron by invoking Hiroshima bombing in talks’
