https://www.the-sun.com/news/8000847/putin-killed-russia-breaks-up-cia/ [www the-sun com]

Ex-CIA analyst thinks that the war in #Ukraine may be the final blow that leads to the break-up of #Russia into several smaller nations ... many of which would retain the nuclear weapons left behind.

Reasons include ethnic tensions (ethnic minority federated republics have thus far provided most of the soldiers sent to the war zones, and therefore, have suffered most of the losses).

> He predicted the world is facing “Yugoslavia with nukes” in reference to the bloody break-up of the former Balkan state.

> When the Soviet Union broke up in 1991 into 15 new states, those where the superpower’s vast nuclear weapon arsenal was stationed were persuaded to give them up.

> That meant avoiding a terrifying situation in which a flurry of nations suddenly acquire weapons of mass destruction.

> But [former CIA analyst Paul] Goble chillingly warns “we can certainly get that now” adding: “I suspect that there could be a lot more people with nuclear weapons than anybody is talking about.”