President Vladimir Putin warned Wednesday that Russia could provide long-range weapons to others to strike Western targets in response to NATO allies allowing Ukraine to use their arms to attack Russian territory.

Putin also reaffirmed Moscow’s readiness to use nuclear weapons if it sees a threat to its sovereignty.

The recent actions by the West will further undermine international security and could lead to “very serious problems,” he said, taking questions from international journalists — something that has become extremely rare since Moscow sent troops into Ukraine.

“That would mark their direct involvement in the war against the Russian Federation, and we reserve the right to act the same way,” Putin added.

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    Others? What others? Who’s going to just start shooting missiles at NATO countries? That’d be a very short war for whoever that is.

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      Iran already has enough weapons that they could attack NATO (not successfully but still). We know that because they give them to Russia.

      What weapons is Russia going to supply, they don’t have anything.

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        No one would even set foot there. NATO would just bombard them with missiles for a month until their government collapsed. Russia wouldn’t though. It likes it’s little border fief.

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      ISIS? Hamas? any number of such organizations would happily use some mass murdering weapons if given access to them. Putin has shown that he doesn’t care about what happens to russian citizens if he can win something out of their suffering so empowering terrorist organizations to harm people, even russians, is not a big price to pay to make his point