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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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[–] A_A 55 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

But then Putin could no longer roleplay als a Tsar.

[–] ladicius 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Führtsar! By I prefer to call him fartface.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] werefreeatlast 2 points 3 weeks 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] 4 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] fluxion -2 points 4 weeks ago

Same doesn't go for Israel, apparently. In fact, the US supplies them with all the offensive capabilities they could ever ask for to destroy Palestinian children

[–] Sterile_Technique 31 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] Sterile_Technique 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

My photoshop skills are pretty amateur, so feel free to take the idea and make something that actually looks decent! ...but yeah the image popped into my head and it had to happen xD

[–] NoSpotOfGround 4 points 4 weeks ago

No, that's brilliantly executed!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] ladicius 24 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] cheese_greater 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Nastybutler 3 points 4 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks 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] 23 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

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

  • Putin's advisors, probably
[–] Kyrgizion 18 points 4 weeks 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] 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)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago