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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  • Flying SquidMEnglish
    4•3 months ago

    a substantially smaller country with Jewish Nazis in the government

    What the fuck are you talking about?

    • @[email protected]English
      6•3 months ago

      How could you have missed that the only reason Russia started on their glorious 3 day special military operation was to liberate Ukraine from evil Nazi Jews ?

      • Flying SquidMEnglish
        2•3 months ago

        Oh I see, I thought they were claiming the Nazis were in the military, not the government. I mean it was a bullshit pretext either way, but I misunderstood.

        • @[email protected]English
          3•3 months ago

          Why choose when you can have both?

          Russia have claimed both that the regime and parts of the military were Nazis.