Russia Almost Nuked Ukraine in 2022
If you’ve been reading my content on Medium for a while, you might recall in late 2022 when I was raising the alarm about Putin’s imminent use of a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine.
Of course, I took the criticism on the nose: Wes, you’re being an alarmist. Wes, you’re overreacting.
Now, new reporting from CNN shows how close we were — but instead of feeling vindicated, I feel even worse.
No one wants to be right if you’re predicting nuclear war.
In the fall of 2022, Putin and his clown army were having a rough time subduing the Ukrainian people.
In a single week in October of that year, the sole bridge linking the Crimean Peninsula with Russia had been rocked by an explosion, collapsing part of it into the sea.
Putin opened the bridge personally in 2018 and it had been a cherished pet project.
Also, a Ukrainian drone attacked a Russian Tu-22M bomber base, which has been a hub for strikes on Ukrainian targets, 200 miles from the Ukrainian border, deep inside Russia.
Not to mention Putin’s army was, at the time, collapsing on multiple fronts as Ukraine continued their relentless counteroffensive.
Back in 2022, I wrote about the signs to watch out for if Putin was about to launch…
