森元首相「ロシア、核使うかも」

　森喜朗元首相は１８日、東京都内の会合でウクライナ情勢について「このままいけば、核を使うかもしれない。プーチン（ロシア大統領）もメンツがある」との見解を示した。
　会合は日本維新の会の鈴木宗男参院議員のパーティー。森氏はプーチン氏に北大西洋条約機構（ＮＡＴＯ）への加盟を促したことがあると明かし、プーチン氏は「それも考えないことはないが、アメリカは認めないだろう」と語ったという。
　森氏はまた、「この事態を収める役は安倍晋三元首相だった。岸田文雄首相はアメリカ一辺倒になった」と指摘した上で、「プーチンを説得できるのは鈴木氏だ」と述べた。（2022/11/18-20:30）

Russian President Vladimir Putin may decide to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine if the current situation continues, former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori has said.
   "Putin, too, has face to save," Mori said at a party in Tokyo for Muneo Suzuki, a member of opposition Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Innovation Party), on Friday.
   The former Japanese leader revealed that he had encouraged Putin to have his country join NATO, and that Putin said at the time that he would not rule out the option but that the United States would not allow it.
   "The one who could play a role of helping settle the current situation would have been former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe," who was shot dead in July this year, Mori said.
   "(Incumbent) Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is leaning one-sidedly toward the United States," Mori complained, adding that the one who can persuade Putin now is Suzuki.