Putin's puppet threatens nuclear strike on European nation sparking WW3 fears

Vladimir Solovyov has emerged as one of the Kremlin’s most fervent advocates for nuclear escalation, frequently threatening the West with atomic annihilation. According to this prominent Putin propagandist, Russia should launch a nuclear strike against a major European nation to prove it is serious about protecting its security interests. He also mocked the idea that the European Union’s response to a preemptive nuclear attack would amount to anything more than another round of “useless” sanctions.

Solovyov has become a fixture on Russian state television, where he hosts talk shows filled with Kremlin loyalists who rail against NATO and Western governments. In his latest choreographed tirade, Solovyov declared that World War III was inevitable and that Russia should obliterate both Ukraine and Poland with nuclear weapons.

“We should strike with tactical nuclear weapons and solve the problem at once,” he said, as his fellow panelists nodded along in agreement.

“Immediately, we will create a security buffer and separate ourselves from the combat zone.

“Calmly and efficiently, we take out the bridges over the Dnipro River. And just to be sure, we drop one on Poland—and no one will dare say a word.

“They’ll impose sanctions—so what? Another 157th sanctions package, big deal.”

President Putin has routinely resorted to nuclear saber-rattling to try to intimidate the West and discourage further military aid to Ukraine.

Last year, he approved revisions to Russia’s nuclear doctrine that introduced new thresholds for using such weapons. Under the updated policy, an attack by a non-nuclear state backed by a nuclear-armed ally would be treated as a joint assault against Russia itself.

Russia has never before used nuclear weapons in warfare, and most analyses suggest doing so would fail to achieve the Kremlin’s aims without incurring catastrophic costs.

More troubling still, Russian propagandists and some military officials have increasingly framed the war in Ukraine as a “holy war.”

Krystyna Marcinek, a Russia expert at the RAND Corporation, warned that viewing the conflict through a religious and civilizational lens raises the risk of nuclear catastrophe.

“If Putin personally embraces the idea of a ‘holy war,’ he may resort to nuclear weapons simply to demonstrate he will stop at nothing to prevail in what he sees as an existential struggle,” she said.