READING TEA LEAF🍃—In 2020, Putin’s decree specifying if/when 🇷🇺 would use nuclear ☢️ weapons:
📌in response to a conventional attack if “Russia’s existence is threatened”
📌Feb 24th—Putin’s invasion: “for our country, it is a matter of life & death”👀
thebulletin.org/2022/03/read-t…
📌in response to a conventional attack if “Russia’s existence is threatened”
📌Feb 24th—Putin’s invasion: “for our country, it is a matter of life & death”👀
thebulletin.org/2022/03/read-t…
This is not random paranoia— this piece is dedicated to just this tricky Putin decree. And the @BulletinAtomic is one of the most prestigious journals in nuclear nonproliferation & nuclear security. Read— thebulletin.org/2022/03/read-t…
3) Putin adds: “This is not an exaggeration; this is a fact. It is not only a very real threat to our interests but to the very existence of our state and to its sovereignty”
4) Thus, the article’s analysis concludes, “Putin has defined the current situation as one in which, in line with the principles of its deterrence policy, Russia retains the right to use nuclear weapons.”
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