Pentagon Responds To Kremlin's Nuclear Blackmail
7- 21.11.2024, 10:41
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The United States will continue to lead in the world even after the exchange of nuclear strikes.
The US allows nuclear strikes to be exchanged if necessary, but the country should retain some of its arsenal to further deter adversaries, Pentagon Strategic Command (STRATCOM) spokesman Rear Admiral Thomas Buchanan said.
‘We need to have reserve capacity. You're not going to expend all your resources to win, right? Because then you would have nothing to deter with,’ Buchanan said. As a result of using nuclear weapons, he said, the U.S. must ‘continue to lead in the world’.
At the same time, the Rear Admiral emphasised that the US is opposed to the use of nuclear weapons and ‘would not want to be in an environment that would follow the exchange of nuclear strikes’. In this regard, Buchanan called for constant dialogue with Russia, China and North Korea to prevent a nuclear conflict.
On November 19, Russian President Vladimir Putin approved an updated nuclear doctrine, according to which Moscow can use nuclear weapons if Russia is attacked by drones and non-nuclear cruise missiles or if there is a threat of losing part of the country's territory.