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

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 13 points 4 weeks 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] 4 points 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Source?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

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