During the Ukraine war, Putin made a number of nuclear threats.
Jack Barsky was a former KGB agent.
The man is not a suicide bomber. Barsky said that Putin wanted to live.
Since ordering the invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Putin has made a number of nuclear threats. Western governments and top Russia analysts have warned that Putin could attack Ukraine with a nuclear weapon.
The fears of a devastating weapon being used by Putin are overblown, according to a former KGB agent.
We were close to nuclear war a couple of times during the Cold War. The Soviets were not suicidal. They wanted to live. It was guaranteed that this would happen. The man is not a suicide bomber. Jack Barsky, who served as an undercover agent in the US for the KGB during the last decade of the Cold War, said that Vladimir Putin wants to live.
Barsky, who was recruited by the KGB, said that Putin is not suicidal.
He knows that if he explodes a nuke he will be toast. That's not the kind of legacy that Putin is interested in, according to Barsky. He's a good thinker. It's highly unlikely for him to start something that guarantees his death.
One of the Russian leader's former KGB bosses was befriended by Barsky while he was at the KGB. After being exposed as a former spy in the 1990s, Barsky consulted the FBI and the National Security Agency, which offered insight on the KGB.
Barsky wondered how the use of a tactical nuclear weapon would change the war and benefit Putin.
How do you get more territory if you explode a nuke and kill a lot of people? Barsky said that an attack on Russian troops could expose them to potentially deadly radiation.
Putin claimed to have put Russia's nuclear deterrent forces on high alert. In public remarks on the war on Ukraine, he made references to Russia's nuclear arsenal, which is the biggest in the world. Putin made a veiled threat to use nuclear weapons while promising to defend Russia'sterritorial integrity.
According to recent reports, top Russian military officials had conversations about using a nuclear weapon in Ukraine. According to a report from CNN, US officials don't know what to make of the intelligence and are divided over it.
The officials were alarmed by the intelligence and worried about the desperate actions Russia might take as it becomes more frustrated with the Ukrainian government. Other officials think that the intelligence may have been taken out of context and that Russia isn't taking steps to use such a weapon.
Putin suggested that using a nuclear weapon in Ukraine would be pointless. In remarks at a conference attended by foreign policy experts, Putin said there was no need for that.
There is not an imminent risk of Putin using a tactical nuclear weapon, but the risk will go up as Russian forces continue to suffer losses and the Kremlin continues to make threats.
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