The German government takes Russian President Vladimir Putin’s nuclear threats “very seriously” but will not allow itself to be blackmailed by Moscow, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said in an interview. “We take his words very seriously, anything else would be negligent,” she told the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung newspaper. Putin has shown time and again that he does not shy away from the worst war crimes, Baerbock said. At the same time, however, Putin also knew “that no country in the world – not even those that, like China, have not taken a clear position so far – would simply accept playi…