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•2 months ago

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

        • Iapar
          6•2 months ago

          Führtsar! By I prefer to call him fartface.

            • @werefreeatlast
              2•2 months 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!

    • @fluxionEnglish
      -2•2 months 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_TechniqueEnglish
        5•2 months ago

        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

  • @ladicius
    24•2 months ago

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

  • @[email protected]English
    23•2 months ago

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

    • Putin’s advisors, probably
  • @[email protected]
    23•2 months 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.

  • @KyrgizionNorsk bokmål
    18•2 months 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•2 months ago

    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•2 months 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.