Russia says it will change nuclear doctrine because of Western role in Ukraine
https:// www.reuters.com /world/europe/russia-will-change-nuclear-doctrine-due-wests-actions-ukraine-official-says-2024-09-01/ Russia says it will change nuclear doctrine because of Western role in Ukraine
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/28141395
Russia will make changes to its doctrine on the use of nuclear weapons in response to what it regards as Western escalation in the war in Ukraine, state media quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying on Sunday.
The existing nuclear doctrine, set out in a decree by President Vladimir Putin in 2020, says Russia may use nuclear weapons in the event of a nuclear attack by an enemy or a conventional attack that threatens the existence of the state.
Some hawks among Russia's military analysts have urged Putin to lower the threshold for nuclear use in order to "sober up" Russia's enemies in the West.
Or just maybe : fuck out of Ukraine ?
Same goes for Israel : stop invading your neighbors.55Those two conflicts are in no way equivalent other than that people are dying.
4Same doesn't go for Israel, apparently. In fact, the US supplies them with all the offensive capabilities they could ever ask for to destroy Palestinian children
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This reminds me a bit of China's final warning lol
26Xi and Modi pretty sure already have told their pet that he's not allowed to use the bad boom.
24BoomBoom
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Maybe they'll take us seriously if we threaten them with nukes for the 17th time.
- Putin's advisors, probably
24I guess they're relaxing the policy, since they've hinted previously that they viewed attacks on Russian territory to be a threat to the existence of Russia and would use nukes in response. But they didn't.
23He's totally going to nuke Kursk or Belgorod and then whine to the international community that they should STFU because it's within their own borders (yes, I know fallout drifts on wind and doesn't give a fuck about borders).
18I don't even think his nukes work anymore tbh. They had some sort of arming/testing last year and we heard literally nothing from it. No test runs no trials no success stories.
13This is a horrible assumption which might have been correct in the 1990’s but cannot be assumed correct 30 years later. The money needed to maintain and refurbish their fleet has gone into the program, and we cannot gamble it all went to corruption when the price of being wrong can be measured in hundreds of millions of lives.
4Source?
1It's just an opinion post, i phased it as such.
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Sure, Vlad
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