Posted on 03/09/2022 8:11:59 AM PST by Vermont Lt
...When combined with military exercises and Russian officials’ public statements, this evolving doctrine seems to indicate that Russia has potentially placed a greater reliance on nuclear weapons and may threaten to use them during regional conflicts. This doctrine has led some U.S. analysts to conclude that Russia has adopted an “escalate to de-escalate” strategy, where it might threaten to use nuclear weapons if it were losing a conflict with a NATO member, in an effort to convince the United States and its NATO allies to withdraw from the conflict. Russian officials, along with some scholars and observers in the United States and Europe, dispute this interpretation; however, concerns about this doctrine have informed recommendations for changes in the U.S. nuclear posture
(Excerpt) Read more at sgp.fas.org ...
This is a resource document that describes the Russian Political Mindset.
It is a dry, and kind of boring read. But its informative as a reference.
CIA rolled this story out in Washington yesterday.
Yup.
I understand “what” it is and “where” it came from. But, its being talked about and some folks might want to see the source document.
In the past couple of weeks people (not accusing YOU) toss around a lot of information they see politicians talking about. But when you try to find that “detail” it is nothing like the numbers that have been reported.
So...having a reference handy will allow the “players at home” to check the answers. Lord knows the media isn’t reading source material.
In similar fashion, the parties responsible for World War Two thought they knew what the future would look like. None of them did.
And today? We've got lots of folks running around, wanting the US to take military action against Russia, because they think they know how Russia will respond...
NATO outspends Russia 20-1. They cannot keep up conventionally. They will counter NATO’s overwhelming conventional advantage on the cheap. They will do it the way Reagan did, by deploying a whole new class of short and intermediate range nuclear missile systems, eyeball to eyeball, with NATO Ukrainian forces. This will be one of the dynamics of the new generational arms race we are committing our children to.
There are some massive gaps in this analysis.
The most important one is that there is no discussion of the Russian capability to destroy US carriers and other ships.
No discussion.
Those ships are the “tip of the spear” of US military power around the world, and they are sitting ducks to Russian missiles—conventional munitions is all it takes if their offensive capability exceeds our defensive one.
This used to be called, before the statement was racially shunned, a Mexican standoff.
Defined as a confrontation in which no strategy exists that allows any party to achieve victory. Any party initiating aggression might trigger its own demise. At the same time, the parties are unable to extricate themselves from the situation without suffering a loss.
In other words, politics for the libs as usual. Only this time on a far bigger scale than they can handle. So they sent heals up over to prove it and find someone to throw under the bus as the place gets lit up.
wy69
Yes indeed. I saved the .pdf. This is what our own policy wonks use as information.
Here is the link to the article circulating in the news today.
You are right about the media - the MSM is so hard to listen to - and I cannot so easily decode when they are gaslighting and lying propaganda. I just assume they always are. Maybe some real info comes out.
I believe that a dog sniffing another dog gets more real time, true and actionable information, than somebody spending all day watching CNN TV, for example.
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