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- Stalling or halting Western support: Threatening nuclear escalation and employing nuclear rhetoric to stall aid and intimidate Western governments.
He described Putin's threat landscape as a calculated deception designed to stall Western intervention and force concessions through fear and intimidation. Clark underscored that Russia's nuclear saber-rattling is part of this broader stall tactic and should be disregarded as a credible threat, recognizing it as a political strategy meant to create fear rather than immediate escalation.