Russian General Wants A Preemptive Nuclear Strike Doctrine Against The U.S. And NATO

Russian military vehicles drive down Tverskaya Street during rehearsals for the Victory Day military parade in central Moscow May 5, 2014. Vladimir Filonov / MT

Russian General Calls For Preemptive Nuclear Strike Doctrine Against NATO -- Moscow Times

A Russian general has called for Russia to revamp its military doctrine, last updated in 2010, to clearly identify the U.S. and its NATO allies as Moscow's enemy number one and spell out the conditions under which Russia would launch a preemptive nuclear strike against the 28-member military alliance, Interfax reported Wednesday.



Russia's military doctrine, a strategy document through which the government interprets military threats and crafts possible responses, is being revised in light of threats connected to the Arab Spring, the Syrian civil war and the conflict in Ukraine, the deputy chief of the Kremlin's security council told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.



But within the Defense Ministry there are voices calling for different priorities.



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Update #1: Russian General: Bring Back Pre-emptive Nuclear Strike Option Against NATO -- Breitbart

Update #2: Russian General Demands Preemptive Nuclear Strike Doctrine Against NATO -- Zero Hedge



My Comment: A few years ago .... no one in Moscow talked about a preemptive nuclear strike doctrine against NATO. In President Obama's first term .... that talk started to become serious. In President Obama's second term .... that talk culminated in the installation of intermediate nuclear missiles in November of 2013 in its Kaliningrad enclave that is along its border with the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. As I had commented in a post yesterday .... we are still far away from the Cold War .... but the trend lines are going in the opposite (and far more dangerous) direction.