{"id":6538,"date":"2015-03-16T18:39:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T23:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6538"},"modified":"2015-03-16T18:39:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T23:39:31","slug":"putin-warns-we-were-ready-to-use-nukes-to-secure-crimea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6538","title":{"rendered":"Putin Warns &#8220;We Were Ready&#8221; To Use Nukes To Secure Crimea"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-03-16\/putin-warns-we-were-ready-use-nukes-secure-crimea\" target=\"_blank\">Putin Warns &#8220;We Were Ready&#8221; To Use Nukes To Secure Crimea<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Having re-emerged from his hibernation, Vladimir Putin is wasting no time getting back to business.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-03-16\/putin-reappears-puts-40000-troops-full-alert-part-snap-readiness-exercises\">Having paced 40,000 troops on &#8220;snap-readiness,&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0AP reports that a documentary which aired last night shows Putin explaining that\u00a0<strong>Russia was ready to bring its nuclear weapons into a state of alert during last year&#8217;s tensions over the Crimean Peninsula\u00a0<\/strong>and the overthrow of Ukraine&#8217;s president, and\u00a0<strong>admitted well-armed forces in unmarked uniforms who took control of Ukrainian military facilities in Crimea were Russian soldiers<\/strong>. In the documentary, which marks a year since the referendum, Putin says of the nuclear preparedness,\u00a0<strong><em>&#8220;We were ready to do this &#8230; (Crimea) is our historical territory. Russian people live there. They were in danger. We cannot abandon them.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/article\/9876bcf1e3364e0c9772e3b061dae903\/putin-russia-prepared-raising-nuclear-readiness-over-crimea\"><em>As AP reports,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\"><strong>Russia was ready to bring its nuclear weapons into a state of alert during last year&#8217;s tensions over the Crimean Peninsula and the overthrow of Ukraine&#8217;s president, President Vladimir Putin said in remarks aired on Sunday.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>Putin also expanded on a previous admission that the well-armed forces in unmarked uniforms who took control of Ukrainian military facilities in Crimea were Russian soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>Putin&#8217;s comments, in a documentary being shown on state TV,<strong>highlight the extent to which alarm spread in Russia in the weeks following Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych&#8217;s ouster in February 2014 after months of street protests that turned increasingly violent.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putin Warns &#8220;We Were Ready&#8221; To Use Nukes To Secure Crimea Having re-emerged from his hibernation, Vladimir Putin is wasting no time getting back to business.\u00a0Having paced 40,000 troops on &#8220;snap-readiness,&#8221;\u00a0AP reports that a documentary which aired last night shows Putin explaining that\u00a0Russia was ready to bring its nuclear weapons into a state of alert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[179,2583,660,694,821],"class_list":["post-6538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-crimea","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6539,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6538\/revisions\/6539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}