Posted on 04/03/2023 6:43:43 AM PDT by hardspunned
MOSCOW, April 3. /TASS/. Aggressive developments around Russia make it necessary for Moscow to use the armed forces in a preventive manner, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told media on Monday, while commenting on the adoption of the updated Foreign Policy Concept.
"Many countries, in the first place, the countries of the collective West, have widely resorted to the preventive use of their armed forces," Peskov stated. "The current developments, aggressive developments around us just make it necessary to reserve such a right as well."
He stressed that "the concept itself has been updated in the light of the new realities."
On Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin approved an updated and revised concept of the country's foreign policy. The concept states that Russia can use its armed forces for self-defense or for preventing attack against itself or its allies.
MINSK, April 3. /TASS/. The Belarusian Defense Ministry announced that a combat readiness check of the country’s Armed Forces began on Monday on instructions from the republic’s President Alexander Lukashenko.
"Today, an inspection of the Belarusian Armed Forces’ combat readiness was launched on instructions from the head of state," the top brass said in a statement.
The State Secretariat of the Belarusian Security Council will oversee the inspection. "The activities <…> will make it possible to determine the commanders’ ability to control subordinate military units when placed on the highest military alert as well as to see whether military units are ready to accomplish tasks assigned to them on time," the Belarusian Defense Ministry specified.
Also, the top brass warned that civilian transport may be affected by temporary traffic restrictions so that military hardware can pass through.
BEIJING, April 3. /TASS/. China is ready to foster relations with Russia, India and other countries against the backdrop of deep and complex changes currently underway in the international arena, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said in Monday.
Asked by a TASS reporter to comment on Russia’s updated foreign policy concept, Mao Ning said, "China, Russia and India are large and powerful emerging markets. Amid the deep and complex changes taking place globally and regionally, we are ready to foster ties with the international community, including Russia and India."
Jointly with its partners, Beijing is ready to send a signal to the world that it is necessary to defend genuine multipolarity and jointly address global challenges, she added.
On Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin approved the country’s updated foreign policy concept. According to the document, Russia seeks to further strengthen the comprehensive partnership and the strategic cooperation with China and is focused on "the development of a mutually beneficial cooperation in all areas, provision of mutual assistance, and enhancement of coordination in the international arena to ensure security, stability and sustainable development at the global and regional levels."
Also, Russia will "build up a particularly privileged strategic partnership" with India, with the aim of enhancing and expanding cooperation in all areas on a mutually beneficial basis, according to the concept. Moscow intends to lay an emphasis on measures to increase bilateral trade, strengthen investment and technological ties with New Delhi, and ensure "their resistance to destructive actions of unfriendly states and their alliances."
NEW YORK, March 28. /TASS/. Former US President Donald Trump says American people should pray following Russia’s decision to deploy tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus.
"Here we go!!! Just as I predicted, now we're playing with the ‘big stuff.’ The ‘N’ word is now being used, front and center. This situation was caused by us - it’s what happens when you have incompetent people running your government. All I can say to you right now is, pray!" Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on March 25 that, at Minsk’s request, Moscow would deploy its tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, similar to what the United States has been doing for some time on the territories of its allies. Russia has already handed over the nuclear-capable Iskander missile system to Belarus. Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova was perplexed by the outlandish reaction of a number of Western nations to Russia’s military cooperation with Belarus. According to the diplomat, "the concern that Western countries are expressing in this regard is targeted at an uninformed audience that is unaware that the West, posing as the self-proclaimed authority here, has its own years-long record of carrying out exercises in this area." Russian Ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov, in turn, pointed out that such a reaction exposed the hypocrisy of the US’ foreign policy.
According to Director of the Nuclear Information Project with the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) Hans Kristensen and his colleague Matt Korda, as for non-strategic nuclear weapons, the US has "the B61-3 and the B61-4 with yields varying from 0.3 kilotons up to 50 kilotons." "Approximately 200 such tactical B61 bombs are currently stockpiled," Kristensen and Korda said. About 100 of these are deployed at six bases in five European countries: Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey. The rest are stored in the United States for potential use in support of allies outside Europe, including Northeast Asia.
Simple answer... No.
If Russia wants a shooting war with NATO, Putin is even dumber than he looks. And he looks pretty dumb.
“You won’t see this reported in the West. Russia is preparing for preemptive strikes on NATO’s staging areas in Poland.”
That would be like the US bombing Moscow in the 1960’s for supplying Vietnam with equipment. It’s an overt act of War and it’s inexcusable. Yes, I believe as NATO troops then closed on Moscow, they would go Nuclear. So, frankly I agree that it might destroy the earth, but certainly it wouldn’t stop the fall of Russia which is inevitable with an an Attack on a NATO nation.
Ukraine is currently a proxy war where NATO fights Russia.
I see zero chance that Russia will suddenly invade Poland.
If NATO invades Russia from within Poland, I think Russia will use nukes.
The West is the real problem here.
More PROJECTION from the Neocons since they’re talking about sending in NATO troops to Western Ukraine, supposedly as a ‘Peacekeeping Force’, but without agreement from both side.
So, if those troops come in to Ukraine armed, Russia considers them combatants (which they likely really would be) and thus they are fair game.
Trump knew what he was doing when he reactivated V Corps and moved its European headquarters to Poland.
No, it was not caused by us, it was caused by the guy who decided to invade Ukraine and then started threatening all and sundry when Ukraine didn’t cooperate.
Utter nonsense.
Trump: “Here we go!!! Just as I predicted, now we’re playing with the ‘big stuff.’
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We’re closing in on the point where all it takes is a mistake or miscalculation to trigger the unthinkable. The truth is nobody knows what it would lead to.
We are living in what the Chinese (ironically) refer to as “interesting times”.
Russia invades a European country for the second time in 8 years, but the West is the real problem?
I do not believe the Russians can maintain the stalemate indefinitely with the limitless supply of advanced weaponry NATO will continue to supply. There will come a time, perhaps it has arrived, when Russia will capitulate or massively escalate. I don’t think it’s understood just how the Russians are going to react to the indictment of Trump. The Russians know as well as you and I that he is the hope to negotiate an end to this. That Soros action might be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.
WWIII is already underway. It’s just not nuclear.
The poor Poles.
Always wanting to punch above their weight, based on a naive belief that a more powerful nation will ride to the rescue.
First Germany, with the UK over the horizon. Now Russia, with the US on standby.
The idea of “NATO” going to war to back Poland’s play is so absurd - and this is before Germany switches sides.
Sad.
“I see zero chance that Russia will suddenly invade Poland.”
I suspect that the emotionally-charged Putin-haters aren’t able to understand that, while Putin doesn’t give a damn what the West or the Neocons think, he does care what China, India, the rest of Asia, Africa, and South America thinks, and if starts invading countries without clear provocations (as opposed to the provocations that forced his hand in Ukraine), those countries, which comprise 85% of the world’s population, will not be very happy.
I would wager that's been true your entire life as it has been mine but you just failed to notice.
Well, that's certainly what one might assume here.
Russia does not want a shooting war NATO. I just don’t think they can last indefinitely while taking massive casualties from the NATO weapons being shot at them. They have been involved in a one way shooting war with NATO for nearly a year now. I fear it is about to become a two way shooting war.
August of 1938 would be the most appropriate comparison.... let’s hope it stays that way.
Either scenario is unlikely. Russia will have to give up some of its war aims, which now mainly seem to be reduced to keeping the parts of Kherson, Zaporizhia, Donetsk and Luhansk it has grabbed since Feb 22 as well as Crimea. Ukraine will have to give up its goal of re-taking all of its pre-2014 territory. What's going on now are the battles to determine where the line will be drawn. Russia should get pushed back to approximately its Feb 22 lines so it gains nothing from its current war but gets recognition of its 2014 annexations. Ukraine gets real security guarantees and entrance to the EU.
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