Is Putin really willing to go nuclear?
The tone and tempo of threats from the Kremlin has escalated amid claims that Russia is fighting a wider war.
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Mark Galeotti
Prof Mark Galeotti is an Honorary Professor at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), University College London, and the author of The Weaponisation of Everything (Yale, 2022)
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