The ATACMS is just one more missile of many that Ukraine is ALREADY using against legitimate military targets within Russia with several of them ALREADY supplied by the USA
Yes they are all bluffs. I will add a new blog post to help.
Not even remotely true. Neither Russia nor the US has even changed their nuclear posture.
Q: And then I guess I want to ask also, since we're still unclear on whether or not the policy has changed. On the non-nuclear — the change on Russia's stance on the nuclear — what was it, the nuclear doctrine. Under these changes, they're saying that a large attack by a non-nuclear state that's backed by a nuclear state, which would be the United States, that would be treated as a joint assault on Russia. How concerning is that to the Pentagon? And have you changed your posture?
DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY SINGH: So, we aren't surprised by Russia's update to its nuclear doctrine. It's something that they've been signaling that they intend to update over the last several weeks. It's the same irresponsible rhetoric that we've seen before and that we've seen frankly for the past two years. So, it's something that we're going to continue to monitor, but we don't have any indications that Russia is preparing to use a nuclear weapon within Ukraine. And we don't see any changes that need to be made to our own nuclear posture as well.
Q: Thank you, Sabrina. According to Associated Press reports, President Biden has authorized, and we've been talking about Ukraine using this US supplied long-range missiles for deeper strikes into Russia. My question is what are the ramifications of President Biden escalating the war against Russia in light of Russia's Foreign Ministry statement in Associated Press that, as was stated, Putin has reaffirmed Moscow's readiness to use nuclear weapons, if he sees a threat to its sovereignty, and a followup?
DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY SINGH: Well, let me be clear, we're not at war with Russia and the party here that continues to escalate this war is Russia. By bringing in another foreign country into the battlefield, by bringing in over 11,000 DPRK soldiers into the fight, that is an escalatory action. And you've heard the National Security Advisor say yesterday that this administration told Russia that, if they escalated this conflict by deploying DPRK troops, we would help Ukraine respond. Again, the parts of the war that has been escalated upon directly stem from Russia's choice and decision to invade its sovereign neighbor.
So, can we safely say that Putin signing new nuclear weapon doctrine and threatening "nuclear war by Christmas" as bluffs once more?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj4v0rey0jzo
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mco_E19-j9Y
Yes they are all bluffs. I will add a new blog post to help.
Not even remotely true. Neither Russia nor the US has even changed their nuclear posture.
Q: And then I guess I want to ask also, since we're still unclear on whether or not the policy has changed. On the non-nuclear — the change on Russia's stance on the nuclear — what was it, the nuclear doctrine. Under these changes, they're saying that a large attack by a non-nuclear state that's backed by a nuclear state, which would be the United States, that would be treated as a joint assault on Russia. How concerning is that to the Pentagon? And have you changed your posture?
DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY SINGH: So, we aren't surprised by Russia's update to its nuclear doctrine. It's something that they've been signaling that they intend to update over the last several weeks. It's the same irresponsible rhetoric that we've seen before and that we've seen frankly for the past two years. So, it's something that we're going to continue to monitor, but we don't have any indications that Russia is preparing to use a nuclear weapon within Ukraine. And we don't see any changes that need to be made to our own nuclear posture as well.
Q: Thank you, Sabrina. According to Associated Press reports, President Biden has authorized, and we've been talking about Ukraine using this US supplied long-range missiles for deeper strikes into Russia. My question is what are the ramifications of President Biden escalating the war against Russia in light of Russia's Foreign Ministry statement in Associated Press that, as was stated, Putin has reaffirmed Moscow's readiness to use nuclear weapons, if he sees a threat to its sovereignty, and a followup?
DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY SINGH: Well, let me be clear, we're not at war with Russia and the party here that continues to escalate this war is Russia. By bringing in another foreign country into the battlefield, by bringing in over 11,000 DPRK soldiers into the fight, that is an escalatory action. And you've heard the National Security Advisor say yesterday that this administration told Russia that, if they escalated this conflict by deploying DPRK troops, we would help Ukraine respond. Again, the parts of the war that has been escalated upon directly stem from Russia's choice and decision to invade its sovereign neighbor.
https://www.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/3972058/deputy-pentagon-press-secretary-sabrina-singh-holds-a-press-briefing/
Thank you so much. Very detailed! This is truly amazing work for people like me.
Great glad to help :). And glad you are in a better place than yesterday :)