NATO slams Putin for dangerous, irresponsible nuclear rhetoric

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization of NATO has criticized Vladimir Putin for his dangerous and irresponsible nuclear rhetoric.

What Happened: The Russian President said on Saturday he planned to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus in response to the U.S. stationing its weapons in Europe.

The United States has been doing this for decades, and there is nothing unusual about it. Putin told state television that they have long deployed their tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of their allied countries.

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NATO said Putin's non-proliferation pledge and his description of U.S. weapons deployment overseas were way off the mark. Russia s reference to NATO s nuclear sharing is totally misleading. NATO allies act with full respect of their international commitments, NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu told Reuters.

Russia has broken its arms control commitments, Lungescu said.

Oleksiy Danilov, a top security advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said Putin's plan would also destabilize Belarus, which he said had been taken hostage by Moscow.

Mykhailo Podolyak, another senior advisor to Zelenskyy, wrote on Twitter that he Putin admits that he is afraid of losing all he can do is scare with tactics.

After Russia made a statement, the Ukrainian foreign ministry called for an extraordinary meeting of the UN Security Council. The international community must take decisive measures to prevent Russia from using nuclear weapons. Russia has once again confirmed its inability to be a responsible steward of nuclear weapons as a means of deterrence and prevention of war, not as a tool of threats and intimidation. Blinken says Xi-Putin Alliance Marriage Of Convenience is a Xi-Putin Alliance Marriage Of Convenience.