Russia begins second stage of tactical nuclear weapon drills with Belarus

Reuters June 11, 2024

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Russia said on Tuesday its troops had started the second stage of drills to practice the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons alongside Belarusian troops after what Moscow said were threats from Western powers. Russia says the United States and its European allies are pushing the world to the brink of nuclear confrontation by giving Ukraine billions of dollars worth of weapons, some of which are being used against Russian territory. Since sending thousands of troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24 2022, President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly said Russia could use nuclear weapons to defend itself in extreme situations, comments that the West has dismissed as sabre-rattling. Russia last month explicitly linked the nuclear drills ordered by Putin to what it said were

“provocative statements and threats by certain Western officials against the Russian Federation”

Comment

“The situation on the European continent is quite tense, which is provoked every day by new decisions and actions of European capitals hostile to Russia, and above all by Washington,”

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said when asked about the drills. The Russian defence ministry announced on Tuesday that Russian and Belarusian units were conducting joint training

“for the combat use of non-strategic nuclear weapons”.

There are two types of nuclear weapons – tactical or strategic. Tactical nuclear weapons are intended to devastate enemy targets in a specific area without causing widespread destruction and radioactive fallout. Strategic nuclear weapons are designed to destroy entire cities and cause vast damage. It is clear that Putin is preparing Russia to use these weapons one day.

There is evidence in the Bible that they will be used at some point. Joel 2 speaks of pillars of smoke. Pillars is the Hebrew word for palm trees!

Bible quote

And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars [palm trees] of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come. (Joel 2:30-31)

Weekly World Watch, Andy Walton