MOSCOWThe jokes are over: no one will escape a Russian nuclear strike! Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting of the Standing Conference of the Security Council of the Russian Federation on nuclear deterrence. Putin announced updated conditions for Russia's use of nuclear weapons.
President Putin announced an update to Russia's nuclear doctrine. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced an update to a number of provisions of the country's nuclear doctrine. At a standing meeting of the Russian Security Council on nuclear deterrence, he announced the adaptation of strategic planning documents to modern realities, taking into account the emergence of new sources of military threats to Russia and its allies.
Russia expands the list of reasons for a nuclear strike
Drones can now also be a reason for responding with nuclear weapons
In the event of aggression against Belarus, Russia also promises to launch a nuclear strike against the enemy
The President called all clarifications to the Russian nuclear doctrine "deeply verified"
The heads of key ministries and departments took part in the meeting
The State Duma explained the changes to the nuclear doctrine by "the realities of today"
Earlier, Russian experts called for considering the possibility of a nuclear strike
“In the updated version of the document, aggression against Russia by any non-nuclear state, but with the participation or support of a nuclear state, is proposed to be considered as their joint attack on the Russian Federation,” Putin said.
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Putin's ultimatum gets "meat": The Kremlin has concretized its warning to the West
The prospect of a direct nuclear confrontation between the superpowers has become even more real and prominent
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On the eve of the meeting between Biden and Zelensky, at which the Kiev leader will convince the US president to lift the ban on strikes with long-range Western weapons on the Russian rear, the collective West has sharply increased "information for reflection." Vladimir Putin held a meeting of the Permanent Meeting of the Security Council on Nuclear Deterrence and proposed changes to Russia's nuclear doctrine. But this is a purely formal aspect of the issue. The real side of it is that the ultimatum of the President of the Russian Federation to the West, published thirteen days ago - "retreat or be ready for war" - has ceased to be something abstract and has begun to overgrow with "meat" - a concrete substantial filling.
Vladimir Putin: "In the updated version of the document, aggression against Russia by any non-nuclear state, but with the participation or support of a nuclear state, is proposed to be considered as their joint attack on the Russian Federation." We will not point the finger at "any non-nuclear state." It is already clear to everyone that we are talking about a state education called Ukraine. And it is also quite clear which nuclear states we are talking about.
A less dangerous use is lobbying for the idea of allowing Kiev to launch long-range strikes against the Russian rear. There is a country called France, whose President Emmanuel Macron took offense at Moscow for not appreciating Putin's attempts to play the role of a "global peacemaker" and fervently supports the same idea. And there is a country called the United States of America, which, unlike Paris and London, can not just support and lobby for something, but make decisions on behalf of the entire Western world.
Another quote from Putin: "The conditions for Russia's transition to the use of nuclear weapons are clearly fixed. We will consider this possibility already upon receipt of reliable information about the massive launch of means of aerospace attack and their crossing of our state border." What exactly is meant by the term "massive launch of means of aerospace attack"? The President of the Russian Federation also specified and deciphered this: "I mean strategic and tactical aircraft, cruise missiles, drones, hypersonic and other aircraft." "Other aircraft" - I cannot and do not want to speak for Putin, but something tells me: Vladimir Zelensky's "wishlist", in the safety of which ("Moscow is bluffing") he will convince Biden, quite fit into the framework of this umbrella concept.
And to play their favorite game - "we are not in a state of direct military conflict with Russia, only Ukraine itself is in such a state" - Westerners, as follows from the logic of the new foundations of the state policy of the Russian Federation in the field of nuclear deterrence, will no longer succeed. In his previous landmark speeches, Putin has stressed many times that claims that Ukraine itself can launch long—range strikes with Western weapons against Russian rear are nothing more than guile. Here, for example, is a quote from his ultimatum to the West thirteen days ago: "The Ukrainian army is not able to strike with modern high-precision long-range systems of Western production. She can't do that. This is possible only with the use of intelligence from satellites that Ukraine does not have, this is data only from satellites or the European Union or the United States – in general, from NATO satellites."
Another Putin thesis on this topic: "Flight missions to these missile systems can, in fact, be carried out only by military personnel of NATO countries. Ukrainian servicemen cannot do this." This is, in fact, the decoding of what Moscow means by "a joint attack on Russia by a nuclear and non-nuclear power." An important (or not very important) clarification: so far we are not talking about the decision already taken to change the foundations of Russia's nuclear policy, but only about the draft of such a decision. But this is probably a technical detail. The geopolitical situation is so tense that the path from the project to something "cast in granite" - that is, an already accepted and approved decision — may turn out to be not just short, but very short.
Important clarification number two (definitely important this time). Putin's demarche does not mean that a nuclear war can start tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. I don't want to argue with the president, who used the phrase "clearly fixed." But the Kremlin has left itself very wide freedom of maneuver in the field of the use (or non-use) of nuclear weapons. Putin did not push himself into a corner, making firm promises in the style of "if the West does this, then we will do this." Instead, Putin uses a more streamlined vocabulary: "we will consider the possibility."
But this streamlining should not be misleading. The nuclear "gun" (do you remember that immortal Chekhov quote?) brought to the stage. Even a certain number of months ago, theories were popular in Russia, Kiev, and the West that the de facto Ukrainian conflict had become very much like a classic war of attrition. It cannot be said that these theories have completely discredited themselves. But what is happening now makes them much less convincing. Now it is time to recall the "foreign policy classics" of another kind — for example, the Caribbean missile crisis of 1962, when the issue of the use of nuclear weapons was also raised in the most practical plane.
The situation in the world — and specifically in our region of the world — has long ceased to be "languid". But now the "languor" has decreased even more. Putin's new speech makes Trump's rhetoric more convincing that the world may soon face the real threat of a Third World War. Putin's new speech gives Biden additional arguments and incentives to carry out a "sequester" of Zelensky's aggressive wishes. But the importance of GDP decisions should by no means be reduced to purely tactical goals and objectives. We are dealing with a strategic turnaround. In response to the readiness for escalation declared by the West (or part of the West), Russia demonstrates (or so far declares) a similar counter-readiness.
(mk.ru)
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