Russian forces “preparing to work under radioactive contamination”

Re:Russian forces “preparing to work under radioactive conta... by 988747 on Monday October 24, 2022 @06:31PM (#33323512)

"No first strike" might refer to "big guns", ICBMs. It is well known that Russia also as a doctrine of "escalate to deescalate" where they reserve right to use small, tactical nukes if they start loosing conventional war, and the territorial integrity of Russia is at stake. I guess they realized that their conventional armed forces are shit, and wanted an ace up their sleeve.

https://globalsecurityreview.com/nuclear-de-escalation-russi...

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Re:Russian forces “preparing to work under radioactive conta... by webmobdev on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @12:16PM (#33332626)

   As per Russian nuclear doctrine, if Russia is attacked, if it faces an existential threat, it reserves the right to use ... first use nuclear weapons.

Source: https://youtu.be/DoOZF5hJmpo?t=2646 (view from 44m:06s).

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