Lavrov Says Pentagon Threatening To Assassinate Putin

💬 FM #Lavrov: The Western policy of total containment of Russia is extremely dangerous. It can eventually escalate into a direct armed confrontation between nuclear powers.

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• Lavrov Says Pentagon Threatening To Assassinate Putin
  by Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/
  Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Tuesday lashed out at what he described as threats coming out of the US to assassinate President Vladimir Putin, apparently in response to a slew of anonymously sourced reports. “There are some ‘anonymous officials’ from the Pentagon who have actually enunciated threats to deliver a ‘decapitating strike’ on the Kremlin, which is in fact an assassination threat against the Russian president,” Lavrov said, according to TASS. 
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  “If someone really has such ideas, then this someone should think long and hard about the possible consequences of such plans,” the top Russian diplomat warned. The condemnation also came less than a week after Senator Lindsey Graham called for someone to “take out” the Russian president for the war in Ukraine to end.
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  But it appears Lavrov specifically had in mind a September report published in Newsweek which relied on anonymous US defense officials describing that the Biden administration was mulling plans for a “decapitation strike to kill Putin in the heart of the Kremlin.”
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  Below is the relevant section from that September 29 Newsweek article:
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  Details about what “decisively” means have not been publicly revealed. The military sources tell Newsweek that there are subtle moves being made with regard to nuclear threats, including moving submarines and aircraft and drilling B-52 bombers. But they stress that non-nuclear military options—the use of conventional weapons and special operations, as well as cyber and space attack—are front and center, to include a decapitation strike to kill Putin in the heart of the Kremlin.
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