Euronews: Putin denies ‘new Cold War’ but says new nukes are on ‘combat duty’
In an exclusive interview with NBC News’ Megyn Kelly, Russian President Vladimir Putin denies a “new Cold War,” but claims new weapons system tests were “successful.”
The new weapons announced by Russia are so advanced that the money U.S. taxpayers have spent on missile defenses "has been thrown out into the wind," President Vladimir Putin told NBC News on Thursday.
The remarks came after Putin said in his annual state of the nation address that Russia had developed new nuclear-capable weapons, including a nuclear-powered intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM, that renders defense systems "useless".
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WNU Editor: Russian President Putin should talk to his Prime Minister who says we are in a new "Cold War" .... Russian PM Medvedev says new cold war is on (BBC), and with his Press Spokesman who is saying the same thing .... U.S.-Russia Relations Are 'Worse' Than During the Cold War, Kremlin Spokesman Says (Time). As to what is my take .... we are not reliving the Cold War of the 1950s/60s/70s/80s .... but we are definitely in a mini-Cold War and where tensions in a number of conflict zones are high (i.e. Ukraine, Syria, etc..).
