[azangru]

I checked out the link. Didn't the parent comment say that it was Putin — italicized — who threatened to nuke Ukraine? Wouldn't the evidence for that need to point at specific Putin's words to that effect?

[choko]

So other high officials, and Putin's likely successor making threats means nothing? You're really splitting hairs here man.

[azangru]

What makes you think that Kadyrov is Putin's likely successor? Anything could happen, of course; but as a Chechen and a demonstratively, fervently devout Muslim, Kadyrov would be an even scarier figure for the outwardly Orthodox Russians than Stalin was.