He spoke about this on Valery Savchuk's author program "Different People".
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Subscribe“Nuclear protection is not transitive. If you possess nuclear weapons, you cannot use them to protect someone else, because you find yourself at the limit; your existence is threatened by whoever employs nuclear weapons against a third country. Thus, joining NATO does not provide us with protection from a nuclear strike; that is a myth,” explains Sergey Datsyuk.
In particular, the guest notes that the Poles he spoke with understand this; if there is a nuclear strike on Poland, Article 5 will be activated, there will be many consultations – and nothing else.
Moreover, he continues, the belief that nuclear weapons will not be used against you is not transitive. For example, Ukrainians understand that Putin wants to seize our territories, therefore he would not turn this place into nuclear ashes, as that would defeat the purpose. However, convincing our Western counterparts of this, asserts the philosopher, will not be easy; they will have a counter-argument: even if Putin desires Ukraine and would not strike it with nuclear weapons, he is not at war with the USA and the EU, so they are not protected from such a decision by the Kremlin.
“In this sense, nuclear protection is not transitive, nor is the belief that you won't be hit by nuclear weapons. But where does the problem arise? The problem arises specifically at this level. If you are an intellectual, you understand that action should not be taken through public appeals but through working with the elite. However, if the elite does not grasp these beliefs, it is foolish to call on them to support Ukraine, knowing that there is no consensus on the nuclear issue,” concludes Sergey Datsyuk.
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