“If he can stop anyone from having a nuclear bomb, then I'm for it,

“never

“There will never be 'victory'

“It seems to me that the situation with Ukraine now is this: you can destroy it, but you cannot conquer it. What do I mean by destroy? Continued escalation all the way to the use of a nuclear weapon.

“no more wars

“there’s not going to be the political will

“All those political experts who say 'Putin thinks this' or 'Putin is scared of that'…they're all charlatans. It's in the same league with astrology. Nobody knows what's going on in Vladimir Putin's head. And I don't know. I see things only as a journalist. I study big data. And since the beginning of the year the need to use nuclear weapons has been mentioned more than 500 times. When wackos say this, I pay no attention. But I've heard it discussed on state TV. And at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, a state-run event, one of the speakers talked up the use of nuclear weapons as something favourable, something good.

“not happened before in history.