Posted on 10/27/2022 11:56:35 AM PDT by thegagline
In Stunning Strategy Reversal, Pentagon Will No Longer Rule Out Use Of Nuclear Weapons Against Non-Nuclear Threat Well, we’re finally there: stocks are officially trading off nuclear war headlines. Moments ago, as part of his closely-watched speech, Vladimir Putin appeared to talk down the likelihood of a nuclear attack in Ukraine:
Which, however, is more than can be said about the US.
As Bloomberg just reported, the Pentagon’s new National Defense Strategy rejects limits on using nuclear weapons long championed by arms control advocates (and, in the not too distant past, by Joe Bide) citing burgeoning threats from Russia and China.
“By the 2030s the United States will, for the first time in its history face two major nuclear powers as strategic competitors and potential adversaries,” the Defense Department said in the long-awaited document issued Thursday. In response, the US will “maintain a very high bar for nuclear employment” without ruling out using the weapons in retaliation to a non-nuclear strategic threat to the homeland, US forces abroad or allies.
In yet another stark reversal for the senile occupant of the White House basement, in his 2020 presidential campaign Biden had pledged to declare that the US nuclear arsenal should be used only to deter or retaliate against a nuclear attack, a position blessed by progressive Democrats and reviled by defense hawks. But, like with every other position held by the pathological liar who even trumps Trump in the untruth department, this one has just been reversed as well as “the threat environment has changed dramatically since then” and the Pentagon strategy was forged in cooperation with the flip-flopping White House. ***
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France got the bomb, but don't you grieve, 'Cause they're on our side (I believe). China got the bomb, but have no fears, They can't wipe us out for at least five years. Who's next? Tom Lehrer
Just in time for the Holiday Season
Weird Al Yankovic - Christmas at Ground Zero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t039p6xqutU
After 9-11 nuclear response was authorized for chemical/biological attack. When did they change that.
Both sides need to back the heck off this nuclear weapons
talk. Third grade level bluster isn’t productive.
Same mindset, just more potent weapons.
People fail to grasp that this is not a border war or even a dispute over where NATO can keep its forces - it is an existential war for the US globalist deep-state, as much as it for Russia.
This is what has happened due to the conventional forces being depleted, recruiting goals failing due to woke leadership and a brain addled CIC.
Your only option is use your big stick because you have no other viable options.
The Great, GREAT Reset.
Yes. Just sensationalist reporting.
Let’s drop the big one, see what happens:
Of course this means they can nuke Mar-a-lago now, right? (”Whatever it takes”)
I don't have any reason to believe this might not be true, but why is the part about "without ruling out using the weapons in retaliation" not in quotation marks like the rest of the quotes? Either they said it or they didn't say it. If they said that part, let's see it.
Old news this has been around since 9/11.
Fishbone, great band.
Exactly!!
Remember the new nukes have no radioactive fallout and if you survive the initial blast your golden according the warmongers.
“Pentagon Will No Longer Rule Out Use Of Nuclear Weapons Against Non-Nuclear Threat”
We’re looking at YOU, Florida.
This is insane.
I thought Trump was going to start WW3 and now the left is all hot to trot to start it WITH nukes!
By refusing to rule out the use of battlefield nukes, the
US could have handed Putin a get out of jail free card.
If he uses them, he can say, “Well, the US just came up
with a policy that says they can use them. We’re first.
So what. If they think it’s okay, then we agree.”
I don’t know about this with today’s reporting, but if
there’s a glimmer of truth in this, then the Biden
administration has screwed the pooch yet again.
The Democrats haven’t had a clue about geopolitics since
before the mid 20th Century mark. They are just lost in
space on foreign policy matters.
The really sad thing is, we are stuck with them for
two years and three months.
Oh…man
it’s been around since we got the bomb. our response to japan was not a response to a nuclear weapon.
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