This is how I know we're losing in Ukraine (and elsewhere): Pentagon’s NEW Strategy Won’t Rule Out Nuclear Use Against Non-Nuclear Threats
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This is how I know we're losing in Ukraine (and elsewhere):
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Pentagon’s Strategy Won’t Rule Out Nuclear Use Against Non-Nuclear Threats
Anthony Capaccio
October 27, 2022, 3:36 PM UTC
Citing burgeoning threats from Russia and China, the Pentagon’s new National Defense Strategy rejects limits on using nuclear weapons long championed by arms control advocates and, in the past, by President Joe Biden.
“By the 2030s the United States will, for the first time in its history face two major nuclear powers as strategic competitors and potential adversaries,” the Defense Department said in the long-awaited document issued Thursday. In response, the US will “maintain a very high bar for nuclear employment” without ruling out using the weapons in retaliation to a non-nuclear strategic threat to the homeland, US forces abroad or allies.
So, all we need to do to start nuclear holocaust is place tripwire forces "somewhere"?
Anywhere?
Strategic interests not needed?
Oh, jeezus.
Biden's* neocon puppeteers are fucking nuts.
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Since Bloomberg is behind a paywall, here is Zerohedge's version which links to Bloomberg BTW)
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In Stunning Strategy Reversal, Pentagon Will No Longer Rule Out Use Of Nuclear Weapons Against Non-Nuclear Threat
Thursday, Oct 27, 2022 - 09:05 AM
Well, we're finally there: stocks are officially trading off nuclear war headlines.
Moments ago, as part of his closely-watched speech, Vladimir Putin appeared to talk down the likelihood of a nuclear attack in Ukraine:
*PUTIN: NO POLITICAL, MILITARY REASON IN NUKE STRIKE IN UKRAINE
Which, however, is more than can be said about the US.
As Bloomberg just reported, the Pentagon's new National Defense Strategy rejects limits on using nuclear weapons long championed by arms control advocates (and, in the not too distant past, by Joe Biden) citing burgeoning threats from Russia and China.
“By the 2030s the United States will, for the first time in its history face two major nuclear powers as strategic competitors and potential adversaries,” the Defense Department said in the long-awaited document issued Thursday. In response, the US will “maintain a very high bar for nuclear employment” without ruling out using the weapons in retaliation to a non-nuclear strategic threat to the homeland, US forces abroad or allies.
In yet another stark reversal for the senile occupant of the White House basement, in his 2020 presidential campaign Biden had pledged to declare that the US nuclear arsenal should be used only to deter or retaliate against a nuclear attack, a position blessed by progressive Democrats and reviled by defense hawks. But, like with every other position held by the pathological liar who even trumps Trump in the untruth department, this one has just been reversed as well as "the threat environment has changed dramatically since then" and the Pentagon strategy was forged in cooperation with the flip-flopping White House.
In a stunning move that should - or rather "should" - spark outrage among the so-called progressives but will at best prompt some very sternly retracted letters, the nuclear report that’s part of the broader strategy said the Biden administration reviewed its nuclear policy and concluded that “No First Use” and “Sole Purpose” policies “would result in an unacceptable level of risk in light of the range of non-nuclear capabilities being developed and fielded by competitors that could inflict strategic-level damage” to the US and allies.
The nuclear strategy document doesn’t spell out what non-nuclear threats could produce a US nuclear response, but current threats include hypersonic weapons possessed by Russia and China for which the US doesn’t yet have a proven defense.
It does spell out, however, in the strongest terms, what would happen to another nuclear power, North Korea, if it launched a nuclear attack on the US, South Korea or Japan. That action “will result in the end of that regime,” it says. US nuclear weapons continue to play a role in deterring North Korean attacks.
So, the brilliant neocon minds behind the report concluded, it is better to instill the fear of a disproportionate nuclear retaliation, thus making an outright nuclear attack far more likely (if the US will nuke you anyway, may as well go all out).
In the document, which was framed well before the invasion, the Pentagon says Russia continues to “brandish its nuclear weapons in support of its revisionist
I think they mean "revanchist"*, but as that word is hardly known to the USA public, they found a replacment word that doesn't mean the same thing at all
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Yeah. Democrats are the angry little dick party.
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I think, if you were to take an X-ray of most "progressive" Dems (and most Eurocrats, politicians and apparatchiks) you would see something MISSING from the middle of their backs.
Yes, by all means let's pound Democrats into the ground so far they'll never see the light of day. But don't forget to pound the establishment GOP into the ground, too.
Maybe with a serious drubbing the old parties will wither and new ones take their place. Bc DC, the Pentagon, State Dept and all of those three-letter agencies and quisling globalists and opportunists... they need to be gone.
Gone so far, they'll never come back.
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If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I think, if you were to take an X-ray of most "progressive" Dems (and most Eurocrats, politicians and apparatchiks) you would see something MISSING from the middle of their backs.
Yes, by all means let's pound Democrats into the ground so far they'll never see the light of day. But don't forget to pound the establishment GOP into the ground, too.
Maybe with a serious drubbing the old parties will wither and new ones take their place. Bc DC, the Pentagon, State Dept and all of those three-letter agencies and quisling globalists and opportunists... they need to be gone.
Gone so far, they'll never come back.
When Republicans do what GWB was doing you'll see me swing right back the other way after Democrats learn their lesson.
The Democrat Party as it stands today needs to die off completely so something worth voting for comes back from the ashes.
I hate Republicans. I hate modern Democrats even more.
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