'Ukraine Plans to Use a Nuclear Weapon' says Russian Minister of Defense, by Mike Whitney - The Unz Review

'Ukraine Plans to Use a Nuclear Weapon' says Russian Minister of Defense, by Mike Whitney - The Unz Review: 'There is serious concern that the West is trying to concoct a false flag that can be used to rally a reluctant public to go to war with Russia...The current scheme reportedly involves detonating a dirty nuke in territory ostensibly under the control of Russia. The Ukrainian military is suffering catastrophic casualties and... will have great difficulty sustaining any offensive. The United States and its NATO allies realize this and are searching for a pretext to send NATO forces to the rescue. It appears that the West is considering using the threat of defeating a nuclear attack as the justification