Quote from: Branko on Today at 07:19:25 AM

Quote from: paxmao on October 24, 2024, 09:20:25 PM

I have not seen the US threaten the use of nuclear weapons. Their doctrine has stayed the same for decades and speaks of using nukes only in nukes are used against them or a credible launch of such is detected.

As usual, you're trailing the events, or maybe just outright lie...that's not true since at least Obama (although history shows us that USA have
no problems nuking civilians)

https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2022-04/news/biden-policy-allows-first-use-nuclear-weapons

Branko, read your own sources and read the US nuclear doctrine. It has been there forever:

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this might include nuclear use to deter enemy conventional, biological, chemical, and possibly cyberattacks.

US doctrine is:
- Launch on enemies launch detection.
- Use if other weapons of mass destruction are used (e.g. bioweapons) to a scales that impairs the US to defend itself.
- Use in case the capability to use the nuclear arsenal is under threat (e.g. a Cyberattack on the nuclear response systems)
- Use if a NATO country is under such circumstances.

The latter is the "nuclear umbrella". If missing, Europe would arm to the teeth with nukes.

Just try to be honest for once. Ruzzia is playing with the idea of nuking Ukraine and has said so publicly many times, not to mention the Ruzzian TV insisting over and over on how great idea that is.