Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Western countries to recognise Russia’s nuclear potential and called it frightening in an interview with the BBC.
“We must not give in to fear, but we must also recognise that Russia is the largest or, along with the US, one of the two largest nuclear powers in the world,” Lenta.ru quoted her as saying.”
Glenn Diesen, a professor at the University of Southeast Norway, earlier expressed the opinion that anti-Russian ideas of Western elites are leading the world to nuclear war.
Also, a representative of the strategic command of the US Department of Defence, Rear Admiral Thomas Buchanan, said that the United States allows such an exchange of nuclear strikes, in which Washington would retain part of its arsenal to further deter potential adversaries.