Russia changes it nuclear doctrine

But will it rein in the bellicose west?

The US and NATO aren’t the only countries doing ‘strategic ambiguity’ to keep Russia guessing about their intentions regarding Ukraine, a hot mess they alone are responsible for creating. In response to western sabre rattling, President Putin proposed revisions to Russia’s nuclear doctrine.

The key changes are:

1)    Aggression against Russia by any non-nuclear State [Ukraine], but with the participation or support of a nuclear State [US] is proposed to be considered as their joint attack on the Russian Federation.

2)     The conditions for Russia’s transition to the use of nuclear weapons are also clearly defined. We will consider this possibility as soon as we receive reliable information about the massive launch of air and space attack vehicles and their crossing of our state border. I am referring to strategic and tactical aircraft, cruise missiles, drones, hypersonic and other aircraft.

3)    We reserve the right to use nuclear weapons in the event of aggression against Russia and Belarus as a member of the Union State. All these issues have been agreed with the Belarusian side and the President of Belarus. Including if the enemy, using conventional weapons, creates a critical threat to our sovereignty.

This has left the US/NATO uncertain as to the threshold(s) that must be crossed in order for Russia to go nuclear. For once, Russia is giving the US/NATO a taste of its own medicine.

With each passing day it becomes clearer that project Ukraine has failed. In New York, Zelensky said: “Russia has destroyed all our thermal power plants and a large part of our hydroelectric capacity.” Winter’s on the horizon.

And they’re running out of men. Estimates of Ukrainian military losses as of September 24^th 2024 are: 620,000 killed, 665,000 wounded (including serious) and 6,500 NATO mercenaries killed. Russia’s losses are estimated at 47,000 killed, 121,200 wounded (including serious). The ratio is not in Ukraine’s favour.

Starmer’s Washington trip earlier this month, where he expected to announce together with senile Joe Biden that the US and UK would be granting Zelensky permission to unleash long-range missiles deep into Russian territory, came to nought.

Biden was instructed to bin this mad caper, at least for now, by saner heads in the Pentagon.

Political commentator James Howard Kunstler said this about Sir Keir’s blundering foray into international affairs:

Meanwhile, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer was all revved up for the missile operation and flew to Washington for a one-to-one meet-up with “JB” to get the go-ahead. The Brits are avid for another World War. The last two went so well for them that they kissed their vast empire goodbye. Now they want to kiss goodbye their sceptered isle itself, which has almost no economy left and is overrun by cultural hostiles who are not into Shakespeare. The Brits’ floundering government is a posse of monomaniacs fixated on defeating Russia which, at this point in history, is like a dormouse (Glis glis) facing down a brown bear (Ursus arctos).

 “Joe Biden,” reportedly “furious” at losing his executive power, was constrained to tell Mr. Starmer that the missile strike op was off, which left the UK PM miffed that he had crossed the ocean for no reason. Who knows, the Brits are so nuts these days that perhaps they’ll try to pull it off on their own. Mr. Zelensky, the no-longer-elected leader of Ukraine was begging them to try it because Ukraine has nothing left. NATO as a whole really has nothing left, either. Not much of a combined military, scant munitions left in the cupboard, and no will to wage war among the depressed citizens of its member nations.

The NY Times reported missile strikes into Russia would risk retaliation and not change course of the conflict. US intelligence agencies warned that Washington, London and Paris wouldn’t survive if Kyiv strikes deep into Russia.

But seriously, what does NATO have left to give Ukraine apart from bluster? Despite the yapping of its Baltic chihuahuas about securing the Baltic Sea, “NATO’s lake”, the reality is that NATO members have neither the manpower nor weaponry to take on Russia and they know it.

From the US:

From the UK:

From Germany:

Furthermore, western political leadership has never been weaker. Macron, Scholz, Biden, Starmer are all unpopular.

The public has cottoned on to the Ukraine folly and are sick and tired of money flowing to wars while their economies tank. A leading German automotive supplier just declared bankruptcy:

As for the failing UK, this video summarises its 100 year economic decline, which Sir Keir’s anti-growth policies will accelerate.

But Russia’s economy show no signs of faltering.

As long as it remains chained to the sinking UK, Scotland’s future looks bleak.