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Cold War lessons show why West must abandon “escalation management” now
The Cuban Missile Crisis proved firm boundaries contained Soviet expansion - but today's cautious deterrence approach achieves the opposite effect, with political transitions in 2024 leaving a narrowing window to apply these historical lessons.
Is Russia’s changing nuclear doctrine a significant concern – or just another empty threat?
Russia hints at revising its nuclear policy after more than 50 such threats since invading Ukraine. Citing Western "escalation," Moscow suggests lowering atomic use thresholds, sparking fresh global alarm.
FT: Russia trained for use of nuclear weapons against Europe as early as 2008
FT refers to leaked documents. Russia has been using nuclear threats widely to restrain the West from helping Ukraine reclaim occupied lands.
ISW: Russia escalates nuclear rhetoric as tactic to deter Western support for Ukraine
Russia strategically intensifies nuclear threats to manipulate Western policy decisions, aiming to discourage military support for Ukraine, ISW says.
This year will be a game changer in Russo-Ukrainian war, Ukraine’s Defense Minister says
Ukraine is one step closer to victory in the Russo-Ukrainian war as the Ukrainian counteroffensive gets underway, and…
Zelenskyy compares obliteration of Bakhmut to nuclear bombing of Hiroshima
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Hiroshima (Japan) and compared the destruction…
IAEA Director General to visit Zaporizhzhia NPP next week
Next week, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Mariano Grossi, plans to visit…
Russia blocks access of IAEA to Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant – Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry
Russian forces do not allow International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts to rotate their monitoring group at the…
Putin plans to deploy nuclear weapons to Belarus – Belarusian politician
There are signs indicating that Russia is getting ready to deploy tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus in the…
From “nuclear backpacks” to “orgy” plans – Ukrainians brace for a nuclear strike
Concerns about the possibility of a nuclear strike on Ukraine grew in late September after President Putin threatened…
What if Russia nukes Ukraine? Military strategist Lawrence Freedman explains
What’s wrong with Elon Musk’s tweet on Ukraine Officially, the US asserts that there is no evidence that…
Moscow moves up plan to finally scrap Soviet-era missiles
Thirty years after the end of the USSR, the Russian defense ministry has announced that it will begin…
The thorny road to the Kremlin’s desired Yalta-2021
In turn, Western leaders, including US President Joseph Biden and his Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, have been…
Putin’s nuclear arms blackmail caused a ‘mini-Chornobyl’
When the Chornobyl nuclear accident took place in 1986, the behavior of the Soviet powers that be was…
Kremlin’s ‘Mobilization Party’ believes limited nuclear strike would save its power at home and boost Russia’s abroad, Piontkovsky says
A newly coalescing “Mobilization Party” in the Kremlin is convinced that it can only save its own position…
Piontkovsky: To save his regime, Putin preparing to use nuclear weapons convinced West will blink first
“Even the toughest authoritarian regime cannot operate on force alone,” Andrey Piontkovsky says, noting that the collapse of…
Putin, his position shaky, may begin new aggression with nuclear blackmail, Piontkovsky says
Russia is not in a position to engage in an arms race with the United States, Andrey Piontkovsky…
Putin is preparing to fight and win a limited nuclear war against the West, Skobov says
Putin is preparing to fight and win a limited nuclear war, convinced that “the effete West will refuse…
Russian Orthodox Church: Performance of song about nuking US in St. Isaac’s Cathedral ‘in bad taste’
Few stories from Russia in recent times (other than anything connected with Vladimir Putin) have sparked a larger…