Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, former commander of the UK’s Royal Tank Regiment, said it was “reckless” of Putin “to try and suggest Britain is sending nuclear material” to Ukraine.
He said depleted uranium is a common component of tank rounds, possibly even used by Russia.
“Putin insinuating that they are some sort of nuclear weapon is bonkers,” de Bretton-Gordon told The Associated Press. “Depleted uranium is completely inert. There is no way that you could create a nuclear reaction or a nuclear explosion with depleted uranium.”
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He’s just giving Tucker Carlson and other America First fascists a talking point: [constipated puzzled face] “Is it really a good idea for Biden to give Ukraine radioactive materials? Why is he engaging in nuclear escalation?” The idiots who watch Faux will swallow it whole.
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https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1638602105907818499
Article is paywalled but you can read the opening.
If the political decision was made, France could deliver a dozen fighter planes to the Ukrainian army.
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I wonder if I will live to see a China that is home to polar bears.
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We obviously wouldn’t want them burdened with the secrets of the least-zesty flavor of uranium by our hubristic imperial meddling. Best to leave them to operate the world’s 7th largest nuclear power infrastructure in prelapsarian innocence…
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@teknocholer Someone should tell Garry Kasparov about tributary states.
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I think that’s the point he is making.
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“Copium” isn’t just for Twitter randos any more.
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Xi looking at Outer Manchuria like this
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“Some government officials reportedly descended into a full-blown panic in private chats after the news broke—with some wondering if they’d become the next Heinrich Himmler and Joseph Goebbels.”
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Short thread:
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