Moscow says it’s committed to avoiding their use, except to prevent its own destruction
Russia is a responsible nuclear power and will only use its nuclear arms if attacked with weapons of mass destruction or if its existence is under threat, a spokesman for the country’s foreign ministry has said. Meanwhile, some Western officials argue that nukes can play a role on the battlefield, Ivan Nechaev added.
According to Russia’s official nuclear posture, “the use of the nuclear arsenal is possible only in response to an attack as a self-defense measure and in extreme circumstances,” the deputy press secretary of the ministry said during a daily briefing on Thursday.
The diplomat was responding to a question about the risk of nuclear escalation in the conflict with Ukraine. Russia is not in the habit of “saber-rattling, especially with nuclear weapons,” he said. Moscow is determined to keep the situation in Ukraine conventional and has no need to use a nuclear option in Ukraine, Nechaev asserted.
He lamented that the leaders of Western powers have become far less responsible than their Cold War-era predecessors when it comes to deterrence issues.
“The liberal-globalist circles think it possible to discuss lowering the benchmark for the use of nuclear weapons,” he said, citing NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg as one example.
The Russian Defense Ministry has repeatedly reassured that its goals in Ukraine can be achieved without the use of nuclear arms. Deploying them would not make any military sense, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said this week.
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The use of nukes will prove that mankind has indeed embraced mass insanity. The who who flu, climate change, and the use of nuclear weapons as the icing on the cake as it were.
The use of nukes will prove little more than that they actually exist and are a real thing.
Anyone who’s been paying attention of late already knows the world has gone batshit crazy.
Never gonna happen. russia. First strike or retaliatory. poot’n part-n-parcel.
Depends how desperate the EVIL gets. At that point, ‘pawkystawn’, as barry calls it, will probably launch on india. “We will SHIT on THIS side of the street, thank you very much!”
Will be the archduke moment.
Silver lining ?
I would like to see D.C., London, and Brussels taken out ASAP.
Why won’t Putin kill Zel? What’s the down side? Mass chaos and an ungovernable people? In other words …. no difference. Kill Zell fer crissakes!
Historically, if believed, ALWAYS take out the leaders. First. Regardless of level of engagement.
FIRST. Suspicion. Of Many.
Well, as things are going in the USA seems like a nuke war is the only way out.
Maybe it’s the only way in.
Into a new way of doing things, as the structural changes required to abolish the old cannot be achieved by conventional warfare. We’ve tried that how many times? It’s a formula invented by bankers, who get richer every time.
If I were Putin, I’d lay nukes in the waters just off of Tel Aviv, New York City and London… set them off when the Knesset, Parliament and the UN are in session.
Everybody would be cheering like rednecks at the Darwin Awards. It’d be like waking up from a nightmare to birds singing and the smell of coffee and bacon.
Let’s say somewhere got hit with a large bomb and it even has a mushroom cloud. They could say it’s a nuke, go into lockdown, wear masks…
But it’s not a nuke.
Sounds like it’s time to watch ‘Blast from the Past’ again
the russian who might have saved the world from nuclear armageddon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
another guy who might have saved the world–
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Arkhipov
It would seem in Russia’s best interest to continue to draw this out….
Why is Russia selling energy to her enemies? The answer in one picture
https://thesaker.is/why-is-russia-selling-energy-to-her-enemies-the-answer-in-one-picture/
Are they paying in Rubles?
And that [the higher prices] is Russia’s fault?
New-clear conflagration is baked into this yellow-cake culinary experiment. And Auntie cannot wait until the Israelis and their regional neighbors decide to finally tease out and resolve that local misunderstanding.
It is a perfect last chapter in the failed experiment called fallen humanity as everyone, even those in reinforced bunkiers and D.U.M.Bs., will be burnt-out with the implementation of the fiery finale.
Cloward-Piven begs any excuse to Build Back Better. Including a nuclear holocaust.
Based on the content, how does the title of this article make any sense?
If I was Putin I would use nukes also. I’m a patriotic American who fought the Russians during the Cuban Crisis and Berlin before the wall came down. The west is suicidal in pushing Russia & China in a corner while destroying our military at the same time. Someday soon Russia & China will invade and decimate the west. This will be accomplished with minimum use of nukes. Hunker down folks and hope you live in the Russian sector of the US.
The constant focusing of our attention by the media on the likelihood of Russia using nukes during its conflict with Ukraine suggests support is being drummed up for the preemptive use of nukes against Russia – before Russia uses them ?
I’m starting to like this