Medvedev is so free and easy with his nuclear warning talk

Dimitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, has been at it again, threatening nuclear war. This time in an article he said that if Ukraine, backed by Nato, attacked Russia, then Putin would order the use of nuclear weapons as per the Russian military doctrine whch states nukes will be used if the country faces an existential threat. Well, first of all, Russia does not face an existential threat, neither from Ukraine nor from Nato. A few drones launched on Moscow isn't the same as an existential threat. As Medvedev well knows. He is just upping the rhetoric to try and scare Ukraine and the West. Medvedev has become a rather piteable character. Once respected in the West as a reasonable individual to do business with, he is now Moscow's Siren voice, trying to drag us all into Armageddon. Lindsey Graham, the hawkish US senator, has suggested that if Putin fired a nuclear weapon at Ukraine that would be treated as an attack on Nato. I'm not sure what he means by that. But if Putin did dare to do such a thing I'm pretty sure the war in Ukraine would escalate rapidly and could well involve Nato. Perhaps Medvedev should think before he talks or writes in the future.