Putin Would be Smart to Launch Nukes from Belarus

Wes O'Donnell
4 min readNov 1, 2022
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KGB historian, Dr. Yuri Felshtinsky, believes that Russia is preparing to use Belarus as a launchpad for nuclear strikes against Ukraine.

If this were true, and not mere speculation, it would be a clever move by Putin to avoid the worst of NATO’s response in the event of a Russian tactical nuke.

Why?

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Wes O'Donnell

Army & Air Force Veteran | Global Security guy at War is Boring, GEN, OneZero | Intel Forecaster | Law Student | TEDx Speaker | Pro-Democracy | Pro-Human Rights