MOSCOW, Russia (PNN) - June 3, 2020 - For over the past year it seems every month has witnessed Washington and Moscow upping the ante on nuclear weapons rhetoric, which has been accompanied by the breakdown of key treaties, including recently the landmark Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) and more lately “Open Skies” - now with even New START on the chopping block.
Russia has vowed that for each time Washington moved the goal posts in terms of backing off prior policies of nuclear weapons restraint, it would respond in kind. This also as the Trump regime has gone so far as to reportedly seriously consider restarting nuclear tests, which hasn't been done in three decades.
Russia President Vladimir Putin appears to be making good on reciprocal threats, on Tuesday signing into effect a new nuclear policy allowing Russia to use nukes in response to conventional arms attacks.
The shift in deterrent policy also appears to pre-empt the Fascist Police States of Amerika placing missiles in Europe, a serious fear after the breakdown of the INF.
Needless to say FPSA-Russia relations are at their lowest point in post-Cold War modern history, now dangerously close to a nuclear brinkmanship scenario that once witnessed Amerikans having to huddle into bomb shelters on fears of “imminent” apocalyptic nuclear destruction.
Perhaps at some point soon we'll witness a return to the 20th Century phenomenon of rapidly construction bomb and fallout shelters across the nation?
As a reminder amid this extremely dangerous escalation with apparently "no off ramp", we were assured for years by Russiagate advocates that Trump is some kind of Russian puppet in the White House, yet at every step he has in reality worsened relations with Moscow.