Russia To Allow For First Strike Policy

[mrjarrell]

From Breitbart:

MOSCOW (AP) - A top Russian security official says Moscow reserves the right to conduct pre-emptive nuclear strikes to safeguard the country against aggression on both a large and a local scale, according to a newspaper interview published Wednesday. Presidential Security Council chief Nikolai Patrushev also singled out the U.S. and NATO, saying Moscow's Cold War foes still pose potential threats to Russia despite what he called a global trend toward local conflicts.
The interview appeared in the daily Izvestia during a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, as U.S. and Russian negotiators try to hammer out a nuclear arms reduction treaty by December. It also came amid grumbling in Moscow over U.S. moves to modify plans for a missile shield near Russia's borders rather than ditch the idea outright.

Patrushev said a sweeping document on military policy including a passage on preventative nuclear force will be handed to President Dmitry Medvedev by the end of the year, according to Izvestia.
Officials are examining "a variety of possibilities for using nuclear force, depending on the situation and the intentions of the possible opponent," Patrushev was quoted as saying. "In situations critical to national security, options including a preventative nuclear strike on the aggressor are not excluded."

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Who said the Cold War was over? Whoever it was, was dead wrong.

 

[bigiron]

i can't wait for my kids to be taught to hide under their desks like we were.

 

[Joe Williams]

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Who said the Cold War was over? Whoever it was, was dead wrong.

We have a weak President who hates this nation, and isn't willing to defend it.

What do the Russians have to lose by restarting the Cold War? They have an ally in the White House.

 

[Thumper]

As bad as i hate to say it.Joe you finally got something right.

 

[5.56'aholic]

My paranoid voice tells me this has something to do with our buddies in Iran.....A little chest thumping to get the US and Israel to back down.