Russian President Vladimir Putin has revised the country’s nuclear policy just two days after US President Joe Biden authorized Ukrainian forces to use American-made missiles to attack locations inside Russia.
The revised doctrine stipulates that Moscow will regard aggression from any non-nuclear state that involves a nuclear nation as a joint attack on Russia.
Russia claims that Ukrainian ATACMS missiles made in the US targeted Bryansk, a region in Russia.
On Tuesday, the Kremlin initiated a new round of nuclear aggression by claiming that the updated military doctrine would theoretically lower the threshold for first use of nuclear weapons.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters that “the Russian Federation reserves the right to use nuclear weapons in the event of aggression using conventional weapons against it and/or the Republic of Belarus.”
Evidently, the goal of the updated doctrine is to warn Western allies of the dangers of escalation and to make the public and lawmakers rethink the wisdom of arming Ukraine with more advanced and far-reaching weaponry.
