Bobby wrote: ↑Sat Sep 23, 2023 6:20 pm
“Just imagine that the offensive… in tandem with NATO, succeeded and ended up with part of our land being taken away.
Then we would have to use nuclear weapons by virtue of the stipulations of the Russian Presidential Decree,” said Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, in a Telegram post.
“There simply wouldn’t be any other solution,” the former Russian president added. “Our enemies should pray to our fighters that they do not allow the world to go up in nuclear flames.”
Medvedev, who served as president of Russia from 2008 to 2012, has struck a bellicose tone throughout Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, repeatedly raising the specter of nuclear conflict.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/31/euro ... index.html
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"Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council", sounds pretty senior to me
Medvedev is sometimes harsh in his rhetoric on social media, even though he is not now a politician making decisions on behalf of the state.
But in his social media post, he only recalled Russia's Military Doctrine on the Use of Nuclear Weapons, which clearly states: "Only as a retaliatory measure or when an attack on Russia (its territories) poses a threat to the very existence of the state!". There is no direct threat in his words, but only a reminder of a compulsory step in case of consequences specified in Russia's military doctrine. In the American doctrine, the use of nuclear weapons can be used as a preemptive and pre-emptive strike. So, who is more aggressive here, given the historical practice of the United States in the use of nuclear weapons? And, by the way, it was high-ranking European politicians who threatened Russia with nuclear weapons, so the EU is not full of pacifists either. You yourself, Bobby, have considered such a scenario recently on this forum. Maybe you should start talking about yourself first. I have already said that against Russia, in one way or another, is fighting about 50 countries that supply weapons to Ukraine, their military mercenaries in the form of NATO soldiers. In Russia, there are politicians, journalists, public figures who allow in their rhetoric to remind the U.S. and NATO that Russia has a military doctrine on the use of nuclear weapons to cool NATO's zeal to destroy Russia. But there has never been such rhetoric from Russian officials who make decisions, unlike Biden, who decides to send deadly, primarily for civilians, cluster munitions, which by the way are banned in European countries. Well, on this issue, of course, you are silent. The boss can do whatever he wants.....
. Better trust the russian media where you are closed down , put in jail or murdered if you question the Kreml narrative.
