NonilexSep 25, 2024

#Putin made a fresh #nuclear threat against the West on Wed, indicating that any nation’s conventional attack on #Russia that was supported by a #NuclearPower would be perceived as a #JointAttack.

At a meeting w/the #SCRF, Putin said that in light of an “emergence of new sources of military threats & risks for Russia & our allies,” specialists from the #MOD & other govt agencies had conducted a…review of the country’s #NuclearDoctrine.

#geopolitics #NationalSecurity
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/25/putin-nuclear-deterrent-ukraine-threat/

Russia’s nuclear doctrine to include attacks on nonnuclear states

Russian President Vladimir Putin said non-nuclear states supported by nuclear ones could face Russia’s nuclear deterrent in an expansion of its policy.

The Washington Post
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…though he spoke at the unveiling of 2 monuments to #Russia’s czar, Alexander III—a notorious #antisemite who encouraged #pogroms — #Putin not only refrained from wielding #Judeophobia as a #political tool but upbraided those who did. He ordered the head of #SCRF, Nikolai #Patrushev, to retract a stmnt by an aide who had described the ChabadLubavitch ultra-Orthodox movement as a “sect” whose adherents believed in their “supremacy over all nations & peoples.” (The ofcl was fired a few mos later.)