AP – Dec 9, 2022
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Moscow could adopt what he described as a U.S. concept of using preemptive military strikes, noting it has the weapons to do the job, in a blunt statement amid rising Russia-NATO tensions over Ukraine.
“We are just thinking about it. They weren’t shy to openly talk about it during the past years,” Putin said, referring to the U.S. policy, as he attended a summit in Kyrgyzstan of a Moscow-dominated economic alliance of ex-Soviet nations.
For years, the Kremlin has expressed concern about U.S. efforts to develop the so-called Conventional Prompt Global Strike capability that envisions hitting an adversary’s strategic targets with precision-guided conventional weapons anywhere in the world within one hour.
“Speaking about a disarming strike, maybe it’s worth thinking about adopting the ideas developed by our U.S. counterparts, their ideas of ensuring their security,” Putin said with a thin smile, noting that such a preemptive strike was intended to knock out command facilities.
He claimed that Russia already has commissioned hypersonic weapons capable of carrying out such a strike, while the U.S. hasn’t yet deployed them. He also claimed that Russia now has cruise missiles that surpass their U.S. equivalents.
While Putin appeared to refer to conventional precision-guided weapons when he talked about possibly mimicking the U.S. strategy, he specifically noted that the U.S. hasn’t ruled out the first use of nuclear weapons.
“If the potential adversary believes that it can use the theory of a preemptive strike and we don’t, it makes us think about the threats posed by such ideas in other countries’ defensive posture,” he said.
In Washington, advisers to President Joe Biden viewed Putin’s comments as “saber-rattling” and another veiled warning that he could deploy a tactical nuclear weapon, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to comment and spoke on the condition of the anonymity.
The official noted that Russian military doctrine has long stated that Moscow reserves the right to first use of a nuclear weapon in response to large scale military aggression.
John Erath, senior policy director for the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, also viewed Putin’s statement as yet another attempt to raise the nuclear threat.
“He doesn’t quite say we’re going to launch nuclear weapons, but he wants the dialogue in the U.S. and Europe to be, ’The longer this war goes on, the greater the threat of nuclear weapons might be used,’” Erath said.
Putin was asked Wednesday at a Kremlin conference whether Russia could commit to forswearing a first strike and responded that such an obligation might prevent Russia from tapping its nuclear arsenal even if it came under a nuclear attack.
“If it doesn’t use it first under any circumstances, it means that it won’t be the second to use it either, because the possibility of using it in case of a nuclear strike on our territory will be sharply limited,” he responded.
He elaborated on that answer Friday, saying Russia’s nuclear doctrine is based on the “launch on warning” concept, which envisions nuclear weapons’ use in the face of an imminent nuclear attack spotted by its early warning systems.
“When the early warning system receives a signal about a missile attack, we launch hundreds of missiles that are impossible to stop,” he said, smiling. “Enemy missile warheads would inevitably reach the territory of the Russian Federation. But nothing would be left of the enemy too, because it’s impossible to intercept hundreds of missiles. And this, of course, is a factor of deterrence.”
Russia’s nuclear doctrine states the country can use nuclear weapons if it comes under a nuclear strike or if it faces an attack with conventional weapons that threatens “the very existence” of the Russian state.
Since sending Russian troops into Ukraine in February, Putin has repeatedly said that Moscow was ready to use “all available means” to protect its territory and has rejected Western criticism of nuclear saber-rattling.
“I understand that ever since nuclear weapons, the weapons of mass destruction have appeared, all people — the entirety of humankind — have been worried what will happen to the planet and all of us,” he said.
Speaking Friday at U.S. Strategic Command, which has responsibility for the nation’s nuclear weapons, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Putin’s repeated threats were irresponsible.
“As the Kremlin continues its cruel and unprovoked war of choice against Ukraine, the whole world has seen Putin engage in deeply irresponsible nuclear saber-rattling,” he said in a reference to Putin’s earlier nuclear threats without addressing his latest remarks. “So make no mistake, nuclear powers have a profound responsibility to avoid provocative behavior and to lower the risk of proliferation and to prevent escalation and nuclear war.”
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Aamer Madhani and Tara Copp in Washington contributed
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If the US uses nukes its forces should face a Global Tet Offensive in many of those countries holding its foreign bases. I would say Cuba has had a plan ready for years to liberate Guantanamo Bay, and it seems likely to me there are plans around the world to launch assaults on US bases in neighbouring countries, and especially so in those countries in which they are occupiers.
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The Russians are more into game-theory than Americans…
So, if this is true, what can we deduce from Russia admitting that it is open to a pre-emptive strike, as opposed to keeping the possibility to themselves…
Or perhaps they are lying about the acceptability of a first-strike on their part…
Maybe it’s a high-level 3D-chess play factoring in the negative-karma of the U.S. using nuclear weapons to kill civilians in Japan…
America has had its launch codes mysteriously disabled (juxtaposed upon UFO events); Russia has not…
What a farce this jew war is.
Lots of posing, lots of BS from puppet leaders who know they can’t do crap without their Rothschild banks giving them the OK, and giving them the resources.
The only way to limit casualties woulda coulda been a blitzkrieg trouncing of the ukraine illegitimate puppet gov’t from the get-go. Oh I forgot, Hitler had already kicked out the tribe banksters and printed real money.
The unmentionables have been doing it for years and getting away with this doctrine.
America has done it for years and been getting away with it.
So why shouldn’t the Russian Federation adopt the same policy.
Oh wait the above mentioned are Gods chosenicks and Gods exceptionicks so they can just about commit any war crime they want and have the full backing of NATO and the UN.
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speculations ! in fact only real value is
work ! every workman is more worth
than billionaries parasites Rothschilds !
Putin may be a “puppet leader” as a comment above suggests, but Putin consistently speaks infinitely more sensibly than any and all of the puppet leader pieces of shit in the Jewnited States, Jew-K, Jewrope, or Israhell.
The Jewnited States is a completely rogue force for evil at this point and the criminal cartel regime in Satan’s sewer of DC needs to be exterminated.
“Nukes aren’t real” says flat earthturd faggot cross dresser Eric Dubay.
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The denial of reality is epic at this stage of history, as is Normalcy Bias. With each nuke scare during the cold war, Cuba, Vietnamn, nuke drills of getting under your school desk LOL the public has grown weary of the constant fear mongering by reptilian political scum whored to Wrathchild. No one believes it anymore, to many times they cried wolf and no wolf.
Basically, the average wage slave doesn’t think much or care about geo politics or the current ramping up toward nuclear war. Putin talks weekly about escalating nuclear war over arming Ukraine. Now Putin says if they see us moving nukes into position they will strike first.
Well, with the pedo Zio-creeper Biden regime they are upping the ante because Biden’s job is to wreck the USA any way possible – like the push for electric cars when there is no power supply planned to charge them. What they are doing with this climate change agenda is wrecking our way of life.
The chances of nuclear war is like the existence of Bigfoot, it is not real until you see one, and then you say, “holy shit those things are real?! ” Bigfoot goes against our Bible Genesis fable of how we got here, so Bigfoot can not exist because of how we are programmed, and those early settlers who met and killed them they called them hairy demons.
Nuclear war can’t happen (in our minds) because our whole existence is based on normalcy – getting up, eating processed food, driving to our slave job, buying crap at some big box store, going home and drowning our misery in a bottle of gin, falling asleep and then the alarm wakes us for another miserable day in hell.
Nuclear war ends everyday existence, we would be cast into a crude dark age existence – and most won’t make it – millions will die and lay rotting because no one is going out into radiation laced air to bury the dead – so the stench will be epic.
People will ignore nuclear war strikes until those last minutes, when the air raid sirens go off and you are told to take cover, then put your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye. And the truth is the lucky ones will die quickly, because existence afterwards will be grim.