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RT: Nuke first, ask questions later! Top military officers reveal Moscow could respond to ANY rocket attack with a nuclear strike
Fire any ballistic missile at Russia, and Moscow might respond with a nuclear warhead. That's according to the Russian Defense Ministry, which has publicly disclosed its conditions for launching a nuclear strike.
“Any attacking missile will be treated as a nuclear-equipped missile. Information about the launch of an automatic missile will be communicated to the country's top leadership, which, depending on the situation, will determine the scale of the nuclear forces’ response,” wrote Andrey Sterlin, a member of Russia's General Staff and Alexander Khryapin, a top military scientist, in the Defense Ministry's newspaper Red Star.
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WNU Editor: For as long as I can remember this has always been Soviet and now Russian policy. Any inbound ballistic missile will be seen as a nuclear attack.
More News On The Russian Defense Ministry Saying Any Inbound Ballistic Missile Will Be Seen As A Nuclear Attack
Russia warns it will see any incoming missile as nuclear -- AP
Russian General Staff Outlines What Kind of Attack on the Homeland May Spark Nuclear Retaliation -- Sputnik
Kremlin Warns The US Of Nuclear Retaliation If Russia Or Her Allies Are Targeted -- Eurasian Times
"Any Inbound Missile Will Be Seen As Nuclear" - Russia's Military Warns Amid Arms Treaty Talks -- Zero Hedge
WNU is right and it's a policy that others subscribe to.
ReplyDeleteOkay James, I believe you.
ReplyDeleteWhat if someone cobbles together a ballistic missile and launches it from land that is not theirs? Make launch of something like a V2?
Say they launch it from Germany, a country without a leader, but a overgrown burgermeister instead. "A Sum of all Fears" scenario, but with an actual launch instead suitcase bomb hidden in a snack machine. Germany has said there are so many suspected or known jihadis in Germany they cannot follow them all. Germany is such a decadent bourgeois country that the army is more of a military rabble by design. Is German intel any better?
Or what if someone use a Russian Club K or makes their own from scratch and launches for the North Sea. What would the Russians know or what might they think? I am pretty sure we have a handle on most everything that floats due to commercial systems, but there are still ghost ships, abandoned ships, and ships of dubious registry.
All quite true and quite possible. It's one of those things that various countries have adopted as a public stance. There's not much of a choice. Granted the scenarios you have illustrated are quite real, but countries have attempted to deal with them before ( shall we say) launch. These national policies are a necessity
ReplyDelete(perhaps evil) but in climate of nukes and now hypersonic delivery systems very necessary. Now I may be wrong (which I am a lot) but I don't see any alternative.
Well, how to react differently? I think we would do the same.
ReplyDeleteJac,
DeleteI think so too. A good mental exercise is to say only 1% of Russian nukes get through to detonation, that's around 60, see the list of US cities and eliminate the first 60 and that's with a 1% success rate which I consider low.
Jac,
ReplyDeleteOne last thing, the fact the world has possessed nukes since mid last century and have used them only twice in stated national policy is a minor miracle.
James,
ReplyDeleteYou are right and it is frightening.
Go to hell Russian warmongers
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