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Sunday 2 August 2015

Putin and the 'dirty nuclear bomb'!

In my last blog entry I said that,

"And, as I have said before, Putin becomes very dangerous when he discovers that he has painted himself into a 'diplomatic' corner."

In April of this year Putin threatened to use 'nuclear' weapons if anyone should try to reclaim Ukrainian Crimea.

As John Hall reported on





"Pro-Moscow rebels in Ukraine building 'dirty' bomb with help of Russian scientists" published on August 1 that pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine are "building a dirty bomb" with the assistance of Russian nuclear scientists, according to a Ukrainian security service report seen by The Times." (UNIAN : 01.08.2015) (my emphasis)

Taku Dzimwasha further reports that,

"When the accusations were put to an unnamed DPR official, he initially denied that the factory stored radioactive waste, but eventually admitted to its existence, The Times reported.

An illustrative image / torange.biz"Everyone knows that there is a small repository with [radioactive] waste," he said. "But the story that we signed an agreement with Russia is fake."

Russia's state-owned nuclear agency Rosatom denied that its staff had travelled to Donetsk and challenged the idea that radioactive material was being stored in the area.

However, a spokesman did acknowledge that there were private companies and individuals in Russia capable of removing the material from the bunker, IBTimes wrote." (ibid UNIAN) (my emphasis)

The OSCE is currently being denied access to a large part of the eastern Ukrainian area controlled by Putin's Russian soldiers and his rebel proxies.

"The SMM is restrained in fulfilling its monitoring functions by restrictions imposed by third parties and security considerations, including the presence – and lack of information on the whereabouts – of mines, and damaged infrastructure. The security situation in Donbas is fluid and unpredictable and the ceasefire does not hold everywhere. (OSCE : 29 July 2015)
 
Is this because Putin's proxies and Russian soldiers are secretly building a 'dirty nuclear bomb'?

That they would do so is fully in line with Putin's own threats to use 'nuclear force' to retain annexed Ukrainian Crimea.   

In a recent address in Aspen, Colorado, Bill Browder (right) ended by saying that,

"We have a man [Putin] who is a mafia boss, whose stolen a lot of money, whose terrified of losing power, whose ready to do anything to stay in power, including using the nuclear arsenal [of Russia] if that's what it takes. And that's terrifying."


In light of this terrifying news, for just how long will the EU and President Obama continue to appease Putin?

As Vladimir Socor (right) explains,

"Berlin, Paris, Brussels and even Washington lack the means or the will to deal with that situation on the ground. Instead, they have taken to urging Kyiv to implement political clauses first, irrespective of Russia’s noncompliance on the military side; thus reversing the Minsk sequence and canceling even the pretense of reciprocity. Their policy can be described as “Minsk revisionism.” 

This generates concentric pressures on Ukraine, essentially to legitimize the Donetsk-Luhansk authorities through direct negotiations on political and constitutional issues. " (The Jamestown Foundation: July 20, 2015) (my emphasis)


Did they have the news about this 'dirty nuclear' bomb that Putin's Russian soldiers and his proxies are developing before it became public?

Was it this that has propelled them into putting pressure on Poroshenko to implement the political clauses of Putin's Minsk2 proposals BEFORE his Russian soldiers and their military equipment are removed from eastern Ukraine?

Indeed, was it the news about this 'dirty nuclear bomb' that forced Angela Merkel to give the green light to,


(to be continued)

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