Putin Makes it Easier for Russia to Use Nuclear Weapons When Attacked
Putin signed a new nuclear doctrine after President Joe Biden allowed Ukraine to use American-supplied longer-range missiles to hit inside Russia.
Russian Dictator President Vladimir Putin signed a new nuclear doctrine after President Joe Biden allowed Ukraine to use American-supplied longer-range missiles to hit inside Russia.
The new doctrine states “that a conventional attack on Russia by any nation that is supported by a nuclear power will be considered a joint attack on his country.”
Yup:
The signing of the doctrine, which says that any massive aerial attack on Russia could trigger a nuclear response, demonstrates Putin’s readiness to tap the country’s nuclear arsenal to force the West to back down as Moscow presses a slow-moving offensive in Ukraine.
Asked whether the updated doctrine was deliberately issued on the heels of Biden’s decision, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said the document was published “in a timely manner” and that Putin instructed the government to update it earlier this year so that it is “in line with the current situation.”
Putin first announced changes in the nuclear doctrine in September, when he chaired a meeting discussing the proposed revisions.
Moscow claimed Ukraine fired the first of those missiles this morning:
Moscow says Ukrainian forces have taken advantage of President Biden’s green light and launched 6 U.S.-made ATACMS (Army Tactical Missile Systems) into Russian territory Tuesday.
Russia says it shot down five of the missiles and damaged the sixth. It added that debris landed in the area of a Russian military facility, but that no casualties or damage beyond a small fire.
Ukraine did not immediately confirm the use of ATACMS on Tuesday, but officials did announce an attack on a military facility in Russia’s Bryansk region, the same region where Moscow says the missiles fell.
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This has pretty much always been part of their doctrine–going back to the 70s and 80s.
It’s going to be a long two months til Jan 20.
On January 20th, 1981 the Iranian hostages were released. Eighteen minutes after Reagan was inaugurated.
Putin ‘ fires’ 10K N. Korean troops into Ukraine. Ukraine responds with American missiles. Putin can pack up and leave Ukraine and send the NORK troops home. It’s over..
I saw somewhere that the NORKs, having access to unrestricted internet for the first time, just wanted to watch pron all day.
Quite a distraction
“Moscow says Ukrainian forces have taken advantage of President Biden’s green light….”
Ha ha. The senile bed-wetter in the White House doesn’t even know what a green light is.
Time for Americans to take cognizance of Russia’s Perimeter System, also known as “Dead Hand.” There is a book by that name and a Wikipedia entry. It’s and automatic or semi-automatic system nuclear response system similar but not identical to the “doomsday machine” in the film “Dr. Strangelove. Dead Hand originated in the 1980s by the Soviet Union out of fear that the US would decapitate the Soviet leadership with preemptive First Strike. A not unreasonable fear. See Fred Kaplan’s book, “The Bomb.” Yes the Pentagon had plans for a preemptive strike on the Soviet Union. There is a whole literature on this subject for the curious. Not clear if there is any humans in the Dead Hand response loop.
I’m sure under current conditions Dead Hand is active and contributes to instability. There are some in our State Department unaware of Dead Hand. Ask your Senator if he knows about it. Yikes some journalist should ask the chairman of the Joints Chiefs.
How would we feel if an adversarial country had offensive missiles in Mexico? Well we know, see the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. This is a vast subject. Americans should be very concerned.
Plans are not the same thing as action. We have/had plans for the invasion of every single country in the world. It is an academic and military exercise in preparedness, not an intention to actually invade.
The adults being back in charge cant happen soon enough!
Putin is blowing smoke for domestic consumption,….he ain’t gonna nuke anything, except his political career
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