{"id":10962,"date":"2024-11-20T08:54:26","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T08:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hamiltoncourtfx.com\/?p=10962"},"modified":"2024-11-20T08:58:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T08:58:00","slug":"russia-lowers-threshold-for-nuclear-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamiltoncourtfx.com\/it\/russia-lowers-threshold-for-nuclear-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Lowers Threshold for Nuclear Force"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Word of the Week Wednesday:<\/strong> Saber-Rattling<\/p>\n

According to Merriam-Webster Saber-Rattling is defined as \u201covertly and often exaggeratedly threatening actions or statements (such as verbal threats or ostentatious displays of military power) that are meant to intimidate an enemy by suggesting possible use of force.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Yesterday Russia updated their Nuclear Weapons doctrine, which lays out the state\u2019s preconditions for their use of nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

The doctrine now states that nuclear force could be deployed if a Russia (or Belarus) suffers a large-scale conventional<\/em> attack. The threshold conditions have also been lowered to include an attack by any state which is being supported by a nuclear power.<\/p>\n

According to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) \u201cRussia\u2019s adoption of an amended nuclear doctrine is the latest iteration of now-frequent Russian nuclear saber-rattling and does not represent a substantial change in Russia\u2019s nuclear posture, doctrine, or the threat of the employment of nuclear weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Bloomberg cited a US National Security Council spokesperson who reportedly said that Moscow\u2019s move did not come as a surprise to Washington, nor would it warrant a change in US doctrine.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Russia\u2019s move has been condemned by the Western officials who maintain that it Moscow\u2019s rhetoric remains highly dangerous. It\u2019s understood that Russia has the largest confirmed stockpile of nuclear warheads on the planet at 5,580, with just over 1,700 of those ready to be deployed.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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Russia\u2019s threat of WMD\u2019s has been persistent throughout the conflict in Ukraine. In 2022 for example, Putin attempted to thwart Western resolve in their support of Ukraine by threatening the use of nuclear force. Here the Russian President said that \u201cI want to remind you that our country also has various means of destruction, and for separate components and more modern than those of NATO countries and when the territorial integrity of our country is threatened, to protect Russia and our people, we will certainly use all the means at our disposal\u201d. The following year, Russia also announced they were positioning nuclear weapons in Belarus.<\/p>\n

The ISW also argue the Russia\u2019s amendment\u2019s signals that they are worried about the impact of Ukraine\u2019s ability to use US made long range missiles. Here they state that \u201cthe Kremlin’s ongoing efforts to inject nuclear threats into the information space indicates that the Kremlin is concerned about the battlefield impacts of Ukrainian strikes into Russia with Western-provided weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n

The development from Moscow comes just days after the Biden Administration\u2019s gave Kyiv the green light to fire long-range missiles supplied by the US into Russia. ATACMS missiles have already been fired against a Russian arms depot in Bryansk.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the G20 in Sao Paulo earlier this week, the Russian Minister of Foreign Affair Sergey Lavrov said that \u201cIf the long-range missiles are used from the territory of Ukraine against the Russian territory, it will mean that they are controlled by American military experts, and we will view that as a qualitatively new phase of the Western war against Russia and respond accordingly\u201d.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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