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Russia says it will change nuclear doctrine because of Western role in Ukraine (www.reuters.com)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/28141395

Russia will make changes to its doctrine on the use of nuclear weapons in response to what it regards as Western escalation in the war in Ukraine, state media quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying on Sunday.

The existing nuclear doctrine, set out in a decree by President Vladimir Putin in 2020, says Russia may use nuclear weapons in the event of a nuclear attack by an enemy or a conventional attack that threatens the existence of the state.

Some hawks among Russia's military analysts have urged Putin to lower the threshold for nuclear use in order to "sober up" Russia's enemies in the West.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Or just maybe : fuck out of Ukraine ?
Same goes for Israel : stop invading your neighbors.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But then Putin could no longer roleplay als a Tsar.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You mean the Führer?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Führtsar! By I prefer to call him fartface.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Farts-farts? :s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

How many farts, do you want mr putin? 2? Okay, put Putin in the tin can, evacuate the chamber and load 2 farts only! But sir! Two farts!? That's gonna be barely 500Tor of pressure! His eyes are going to pop out!... Well that's what he chose!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Those two conflicts are in no way equivalent other than that people are dying.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Xi and Modi pretty sure already have told their pet that he's not allowed to use the bad boom.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

BoomBoom

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

He's totally going to nuke Kursk or Belgorod and then whine to the international community that they should STFU because it's within their own borders (yes, I know fallout drifts on wind and doesn't give a fuck about borders).

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

This reminds me a bit of China's final warning lol

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I guess they're relaxing the policy, since they've hinted previously that they viewed attacks on Russian territory to be a threat to the existence of Russia and would use nukes in response. But they didn't.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don't even think his nukes work anymore tbh. They had some sort of arming/testing last year and we heard literally nothing from it. No test runs no trials no success stories.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

This is a horrible assumption which might have been correct in the 1990’s but cannot be assumed correct 30 years later. The money needed to maintain and refurbish their fleet has gone into the program, and we cannot gamble it all went to corruption when the price of being wrong can be measured in hundreds of millions of lives.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Source?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It's just an opinion post, i phased it as such.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Fuck around and find out.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Sure, Vlad

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Maybe they'll take us seriously if we threaten them with nukes for the 17th time.

Putin's advisors, probably

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

This is fucking amazing and I'm stealing it..