A different take on the war in Ukraine

[727Sky]

I find this story line hard to believe but....sick if true

[AmericanBuffalo]

I am so disgusted with the US government. I say we rid the Federal government of all the 'adults' and install kindergartners! They would do a better, more honest job than what we have!

[EndtheMadnessNow]

The demoncrats are a death cult. What blows my mind is this ninth level of hypocrisy & blantant lies. So ironic that the nuke scientists moved the Doomsday clock up not once, but TWICE during Trump's term and still holding since Biden took office. Should have been moved backward and now perhaps sitting at 60 seconds to midnight vice 100 seconds. Corner a bear and you better be prepared!

Read the fine print: Russia’s nuclear weapon use policy

In June 2020, Putin signed a decree—the Basic Principles of the Russian Federation’s State Policy in the Domain of Nuclear Deterrence—that specifies two conditions under which Russia would use nuclear weapons. The first is unsurprising: “The Russian Federation retains the right to use nuclear weapons in response to the use of nuclear weapons and other types of weapons of mass destruction against it and/or its allies…” But that sentence ends with an unusual statement: “… and also in the case of aggression against the Russian Federation with the use of conventional weapons, when the very existence of the state is put under threat” [emphasis added].

Russia’s Nuclear Weapons: Doctrine, Forces, and Modernization (PDF) Congressional Research Service - Updated April 21, 2022

After the Cold War, Russia did not retain the Soviet “no first use” policy, and it has revised its nuclear doctrine several times to respond to concerns about its security environment and the capabilities of its conventional forces. When combined with military exercises and Russian officials’ public statements, this evolving doctrine seems to indicate that Russia has potentially placed a greater reliance on nuclear weapons and may threaten to use them during regional conflicts. This doctrine has led some U.S. analysts to conclude that Russia has adopted an “escalate to de-escalate” strategy, where it might threaten to use nuclear weapons if it were losing a conflict with a NATO member, in an effort to convince the United States and its NATO allies to withdraw from the conflict. Russian officials, along with some scholars and observers in the United States and Europe, dispute this interpretation; however, concerns about this doctrine have informed recommendations for changes in the U.S. nuclear posture.
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The Debate Over Russia’s Nuclear Doctrine

The 2018 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) adheres to the view that Russia has adopted an “escalate to de-escalate” strategy and asserts that Russia “mistakenly assesses that the threat of nuclear escalation or actual first use of nuclear weapons would serve to ‘de-escalate’ a conflict on terms favorable to Russia.”166 The NPR’s primary concern is with a scenario where Russia executes a land-grab on a NATO ally’s territory and then presents U.S. and NATO forces with a fait accompli by threatening to use nuclear weapons. The NPR thus recommends that the United States develop new low-yield nonstrategic weapons that, it argues, would provide the United States with a credible response, thereby “ensuring that the Russian leadership does not miscalculate regarding the consequences of limited nuclear first use.”

“They’re dealing with him incorrectly, I think what they’re saying – it’s almost like they’re speaking with fear,” Mr Trump said.

“Our leaders are not smart."

“If they’re not smart, you’re going to end up in a nuclear war – this is just the beginning.”

“We have one weapon alone that would destroy everything.”
― Donald J. Trump
Quote source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWvqYOwgR9I

On the flip-side the threat of nuclear war has always been fear propaganda out of both sides. BUT, in these days of Multi-polar world order I'm not so sure anymore and I'm far more concerned with our own war monger idiots in power vice Putin. These are the same 'people' that preach to us that they want to save the planet??!!! They are going to end up engulfing half of Europe in their war. This childish back 'n forth nuclear rhetoric is liable to light the fuse.

Meanwhile, Biden requests $33 Billion on top of the previous billions for Ukraine.



Meanwhile, homelessness, rising rent, & housing crisis continues to skyrocket here in the Homeland.

Schumer: $33 billion Ukraine aid package to include provisions to seize and sell Oligarch assets and send proceeds to Kyiv.

What is so damn special about Kyiv/Kiev? We're all being played. To what end I do not yet know. One goal is probably to plunder the Ukraine; not save it.

I need to list up my favorite nuclear war movies to enhance my paranoia.

[Wizzz]

The demoncrats are a death cult. What blows my mind is this ninth level of hypocrisy & blantant lies. So ironic that the nuke scientists moved the Doomsday clock up not once, but TWICE during Trump's term and still holding since Biden took office. Should have been moved backward and now perhaps sitting at 60 seconds to midnight vice 100 seconds. Corner a bear and you better be prepared!

Read the fine print: Russia’s nuclear weapon use policy

In June 2020, Putin signed a decree—the Basic Principles of the Russian Federation’s State Policy in the Domain of Nuclear Deterrence—that specifies two conditions under which Russia would use nuclear weapons. The first is unsurprising: “The Russian Federation retains the right to use nuclear weapons in response to the use of nuclear weapons and other types of weapons of mass destruction against it and/or its allies…” But that sentence ends with an unusual statement: “… and also in the case of aggression against the Russian Federation with the use of conventional weapons, when the very existence of the state is put under threat” [emphasis added].

Russia’s Nuclear Weapons: Doctrine, Forces, and Modernization (PDF) Congressional Research Service - Updated April 21, 2022

After the Cold War, Russia did not retain the Soviet “no first use” policy, and it has revised its nuclear doctrine several times to respond to concerns about its security environment and the capabilities of its conventional forces. When combined with military exercises and Russian officials’ public statements, this evolving doctrine seems to indicate that Russia has potentially placed a greater reliance on nuclear weapons and may threaten to use them during regional conflicts. This doctrine has led some U.S. analysts to conclude that Russia has adopted an “escalate to de-escalate” strategy, where it might threaten to use nuclear weapons if it were losing a conflict with a NATO member, in an effort to convince the United States and its NATO allies to withdraw from the conflict. Russian officials, along with some scholars and observers in the United States and Europe, dispute this interpretation; however, concerns about this doctrine have informed recommendations for changes in the U.S. nuclear posture.
....

The Debate Over Russia’s Nuclear Doctrine

The 2018 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) adheres to the view that Russia has adopted an “escalate to de-escalate” strategy and asserts that Russia “mistakenly assesses that the threat of nuclear escalation or actual first use of nuclear weapons would serve to ‘de-escalate’ a conflict on terms favorable to Russia.”166 The NPR’s primary concern is with a scenario where Russia executes a land-grab on a NATO ally’s territory and then presents U.S. and NATO forces with a fait accompli by threatening to use nuclear weapons. The NPR thus recommends that the United States develop new low-yield nonstrategic weapons that, it argues, would provide the United States with a credible response, thereby “ensuring that the Russian leadership does not miscalculate regarding the consequences of limited nuclear first use.”

“They’re dealing with him incorrectly, I think what they’re saying – it’s almost like they’re speaking with fear,” Mr Trump said.

“Our leaders are not smart."

“If they’re not smart, you’re going to end up in a nuclear war – this is just the beginning.”

“We have one weapon alone that would destroy everything.”
― Donald J. Trump
Quote source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWvqYOwgR9I

On the flip-side the threat of nuclear war has always been fear propaganda out of both sides. BUT, in these days of Multi-polar world order I'm not so sure anymore and I'm far more concerned with our own war monger idiots in power vice Putin. These are the same 'people' that preach to us that they want to save the planet??!!! They are going to end up engulfing half of Europe in their war. This childish back 'n forth nuclear rhetoric is liable to light the fuse.

Meanwhile, Biden requests $33 Billion on top of the previous billions for Ukraine.



Meanwhile, homelessness, rising rent, & housing crisis continues to skyrocket here in the Homeland.

Schumer: $33 billion Ukraine aid package to include provisions to seize and sell Oligarch assets and send proceeds to Kyiv.

What is so damn special about Kyiv/Kiev? We're all being played. To what end I do not yet know. One goal is probably to plunder the Ukraine; not save it.

I need to list up my favorite nuclear war movies to enhance my paranoia.

A few months ago, I read an article on vox.com that went over this. Up until then,

I like most people,thought that the concept of M.A.D. was still in play with the superpowers.

I'm now of the opinion that use of nukes (tatical or strategic) is an issue of when and not if.

But, I'm happy to say that when it comes to predicting these things, I'm wrong most

of the time.