Putin sends a missile message to the West: 'Back off'

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Posted on 11/22/2024 12:29:09 PM PST by marcusmaximus

Vladimir Putin's hypersonic missile carried a simple message to the West over Ukraine: back off, and if you don't, Russia reserves the right to hit U.S. and British military facilities.

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"Putin is saying to the West stop - halt - back off," Sergei Markov, a former Kremlin adviser, told Reuters.

"The signal Putin is sending to the world is that we consider these strikes as the direct entry of the United States and Britain into a war against Russia," he said. "But we are not responding with all our might right now because these strikes against Russia will not change the outcome of the war."

A Russian source who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the situation said Putin had hinted that he wanted to steer clear of escalation, though the odds of Russia using nuclear weapons remained pretty high.

The source did not clarify whether he was talking about tactical battlefield weapons or long-range nuclear missiles.

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