Putin was speaking to an audience of
international experts in Sochi, the Black Sea
He said:
Our concept is the retaliatory strike. This means that we will use nuclear weapons only when we have been convinced that a potential aggressor is attacking Russia, attacking our territory. Of course it is a world-wide catastrophe. But I repeat, we would not be the initiators of such a catastrophe because we do not have a preemptive strike .
Well, in that situation we are in a way waiting that someone uses nuclear weapons against us and we ourselves do nothing.
Yes, of course. The aggressor will have to understand that retaliation is inevitable, that he will be destroyed and that we, as victims of aggression, as martyrs, will go to heaven. They will simply croak because they won't even have time to repent.
В российской военной доктрине нет концепции
превентивного ядерного удара; такой удар может быть только ответно-встречным
Когда
убеждаемся, что атака идет на территорию России, только после этого мы наносим
ответно-встречный удар. Конечно, это катастрофа всемирная. Но я повторяю: мы не
можем быть инициаторами этой катастрофы, потому что у нас нет превентивного
удара. Да, в этой ситуации мы как бы ждем, что в отношении нас применят оружие.
Сами ничего не делаем. Но агрессор все равно должен знать, что возмездие
неизбежно, что он будет уничтожен. А мы жертва
агрессии. Мы, как мученики, попадем в рай, а они просто сдохнут. Они
даже раскаяться не успеют.
My comment:
Bizarre comment. The key sentence is in red. Apparently, Putin does not sufficiently mind that he and everyone around him would die since they as martyrs would go to heaven. Which would mean that the MAD doctrine that worked during the Cold War might start faltering even with the Russians, not only with the Iranians.
My comment:
Bizarre comment. The key sentence is in red. Apparently, Putin does not sufficiently mind that he and everyone around him would die since they as martyrs would go to heaven. Which would mean that the MAD doctrine that worked during the Cold War might start faltering even with the Russians, not only with the Iranians.