Putin’s Switch to Nuclear Blackmail: ‘Of Course It’s Not Him Who Is to Blame’

After that, Putin switched to nuclear blackmail from the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. It’s even more convenient here. Putin threatened Europe to launch a radioactive cloud on them for a few days, &, of course, it’s not him who is to blame, Ukraine is to blame…

Source: Twitter Archive (2022-08-24)

Documents the explicit strategic pivot to nuclear blackmail AND the built-in plausible deniability. The phrase “of course, it’s not him who is to blame” is the Provocation Logic Cycle embedded inside the nuclear threat. Nuclear blackmail + victim-blaming = the complete system.

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