'Completely irresponsible' for Russia to 'even raise the specter' of nuclear warfare: John Kirby
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Pentagon press secretary John Kirby revealed the contents of the Russian playbook Thursday on "Your World."
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But as he gets weaker, as his military gets strained inside Ukraine, as he has to contract the kind of objectives he's trying to reach in Ukraine, from a military perspective - he's again lashing out and threatening the West and everybody else, making himself sound like he's the victim here. Russia is the aggressor, and it's completely irresponsible for a modern nuclear power to even raise the specter of the use of nuclear weapons while he's engaged in an act of hot war inside Ukraine - a war that he started, war of choice - [he] had diplomatic options on the table and refused to explore them.
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