Posted on 11/19/2024 6:29:40 AM PST by lasereye
President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday formally lowered the threshold for Russia’s use of its nuclear weapons, a move that follows U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to let Ukraine strike targets inside Russian territory with American-supplied longer-range missiles.
The new doctrine allows for a potential nuclear response by Moscow even to a conventional attack on Russia by any nation that is supported by a nuclear power.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said Ukraine fired six U.S.-made ATACMS missiles early Tuesday at a military facility in Russia's Bryansk region that borders Ukraine, adding that air defenses shot down five of them and damaged one more.
While the doctrine envisions a possible nuclear response by Russia to such a conventional strike, it is formulated broadly to avoid a firm commitment to use nuclear weapons and keep Putin's options open.
The approval of the document demonstrates Putin’s readiness to tap his nuclear arsenal to force the West to back down as Moscow presses a slow-moving offensive in Ukraine as the war reached its 1,000th day.
Asked Tuesday if a Ukrainian attack with longer-range U.S. missiles could potentially trigger a nuclear response, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov answered affirmatively, pointing to the doctrine’s provision that holds the door open for it after a conventional strike that raises critical threats for the "sovereignty and territorial integrity: of Russia and its ally, Belarus.
Commenting on whether the updated doctrine was deliberately issued to follow Biden’s decision, 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. He has previously warned that allowing Ukraine to hit Russian territory would mean that Russia and NATO are at war.
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The Bidenskyyyyyyyyyy regime is going to crawl out from under the bus and leave the world on the verge of WWIII.
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The next two months are probably the most dangerous for the west since the height of the cold war.
How long are the Democrats going to let a mentally incapable President continue to march us toward a Nuclear War with Russia?
This is too transparent, democrats clumsy attempt at sleight of hand. Need to look deeper to see where the real damage is being done.
It’s a wonder somebody hasn’t ties his leash to a limb yet a high one.
The entire point of Obama’s second 8 years and Biden in the final four was perusable deniability... normally that might give them some cover, but Congress is complicit for now putting an end to this, and should we end up with an expanded war, the DNC or I mean Brandon will lock AmeriKa down with Martial Law preventing a Trump presidency. Another FDR, the old man incapacited, prosecuting a world war while building the foundations for AmeriKa as the unchallenged Marxist Nation on earth.
Biden couldn’t wait 60 days. He had to screw things up for Trump right now.
The congress should step in to stop this dangerous madness, but it won’t. Its no wonder the American people hold them in such low esteem.
Thanks alot Congress, we have a President who obviously has a mental illness, who is angry about being betrayed, and you are allowing him to stay in office for another 2 months.
The Globalists are giving orders to the MIC, who is ordering the IC, who is ordering the little girls in the White House. There, that’s the chain! One month if he!! To go!
Nothing like a good nuclear war to cancel an inauguration and solve the Trump problem once and for all. No more threats to democracy. No more Hitlers. No more anything.
And there are the war pukes on here claiming putin is bluffing.
OK wanna find out?
Yet the owners of this site let them post continuously what amounts to false reporting (propaganda) as long as they pay to play.
Yep. If we (The Dumbocrats) can’t have the USA, then nobody will!
I can only hope that Putin keeps his responses conventional until Trump gets in and negotiations can proceed.
Yep. Who cares if tens of millions of people die?
We may be about to learn a terrible lesson for putting our inferiors into high office.
It’s criminal that the election doesn’t overturn the powers that be, immediately
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