The atomic threat, a trump card in Vladimir Putin’s game

More than a hundred times. It has been more than a hundred times since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022 that Vladimir Putin has used the nuclear threat, « by the band », implicitly, or frontally. Last salvo, last Thursday, when the head of the Kremlin, from Kazakhstan, where he was participating in a regional summit, threatened to strike command centers in kyiv with his intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM), named Orechnik (hazel) .

A very rustic name to designate the scale of terror climbed in recent days by the Russian president. Eight days earlier, in fact, he had “presented” this hypersonic missile described as “invulnerable” against Western anti-aircraft defenses. Above all, this missile had just been used, a few hours earlier, for the first time on the battlefield, during a strike on Dnipro.

The little manual of hybrid warfare

The attack was supposed to respond to recent bombings carried out by kyiv on…