Russia issues horror WW3 threat to nuke Germany and Finland - 'Reduced to dust'

RUSSIA must change its military doctrine to automatically oblige the Kremlin leader to use atomic weapons if a Western state wages war against it, demands a prominent Putin adviser.

Sergei Karaganov, known as ‘Professor Doomsday’, told the Moscow dictator that the move would at a stroke stop NATO states from giving military support to Ukraine.

The Russian leadership sees NATO states as complicit in the war, on Ukraine’s side.

Karaganov acts as a nuclear adviser to Putin and says under the scheme any European state backing Ukraine will be “reduced to dust”.

The same should happen to Germany and Finland if nuclear missiles are deployed on their territories, he stated.

“We need changes to our nuclear and military doctrine,” he said.

“One of the forthcoming changes must be that Russia is obliged – and undertakes to – use nuclear weapons should a war be waged against it by countries that surpass it in terms of demographic, economic and scientific-technical potential.

“In other words, this is not an option, but an obligation.”

This will “prevent any wars”, he claimed.

“We are currently deploying a new generation of strategic intercontinental ballistic missiles, each with a warhead yield of 750 kilotons – that is, 7.5 megatons in total.

“A single missile of this type would be enough to reduce an average European country to dust.

“So that it would never even cross anyone’s mind to attack Russian territory in any way….

“I imagine they are not only super-intercontinental but can also strike much closer targets.

“We have a sufficient number of them.

“We simply need to make it clear to [the West] that any war games against Russia – or any war games at all – will lead to their destruction.”

Karaganov, an influential Russian political scientist and honorary chairman of the Council on Foreign and Defence Policy in Moscow, said: “If nuclear weapons were to spread across Europe, Russia would be obliged to undertake to destroy those countries in which such weapons appear, and especially those countries that have ever attacked Russia.”

This applied “first and foremost” to Germany which has “no right whatsoever to even speak of having the strongest army in the world”.

If it seeks this status “it should cease to exist.

“But I hope that Germany will come to its senses after all.”

Recent rule changes allow Finland to have nuclear weapons own its territory.

“Such a country has absolutely no right even to contemplate possessing nuclear weapons or deploying them on its territory,” he said.

“We simply need to explain this to our neighbours so that they stop playing these games, because they have now brought people with the intellect of mice into positions of leadership.”

Finland — which has an 833-mile border with Russia —has now lifted a decades-old legal ban on the deployment of nuclear weapons on its territory, paving the way for allied nuclear arms to be brought into the country if required for national or NATO defence.

Helsinki insists it has no plans to host nuclear weapons in peacetime, explaining the move as aligning Finnish law with its new NATO membership and strengthening the alliance's deterrence against Russia

“Deploying nuclear weapons on Finnish territory – just as, indeed, Finland’s abandonment of its neutrality – is tantamount to suicide,” said Karaganov.

“In the event of a conflict, these countries would be the first to be destroyed.”