{"id":147361,"date":"2022-10-01T21:23:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T02:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/russias-annexation-puts-world-two-or-three-steps-away-from-nuclear-war"},"modified":"2022-10-01T21:23:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T02:23:53","slug":"russias-annexation-puts-world-two-or-three-steps-away-from-nuclear-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/russias-annexation-puts-world-two-or-three-steps-away-from-nuclear-war","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s annexation puts world \u2018two or three steps away\u2019 from nuclear war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/russias-annexation-puts-world-two-or-three-steps-away-from-nuclear-war2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Putin has previously threatened to resort to nuclear weapons if Russia\u2019s goals in Ukraine continue to be thwarted. The annexation brings the use of a nuclear weapon a step closer by giving Putin a potential justification on the grounds that \u201cthe territorial integrity of our country is threatened,\u201d as he put it in his speech last week.<\/p>\n<p>He renewed the threat on Friday with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2022\/09\/30\/putin-speech-ukraine\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5\" target=_blank>an ominous comment<\/a> that the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki created a \u201cprecedent\u201d for the use of nuclear weapons, echoing references he has made in the past to the U.S. invasion of Iraq as setting a precedent for Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putin has previously threatened to resort to nuclear weapons if Russia\u2019s goals in Ukraine continue to be thwarted. The annexation brings the use of a nuclear weapon a step closer by giving Putin a potential justification on the grounds that \u201cthe territorial integrity of our country is threatened,\u201d as he put it in his speech [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}