Something Went Wrong with the Nuclear Red Lines

The plan to intimidate the West with a nuclear club was as precise and reliable as a Swiss watch. But in the end, it all turned into another show-off by the Kremlin’s occupant. The plan had three stages.

The first stage was the launch of the “Sarmat” missile from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome. After this, according to the plan, the West should have been seriously alarmed. Indeed, the West did get tense, but not out of fear, rather from laughter, when the “Sarmat” exploded in the launch silo. By the way, there aren’t that many silos of this type in Russia. And judging by the crater that formed, the silo is now done for.

The second stage: Putin and his accomplices in war crimes, under the watchful eye of cameras, discuss a new nuclear doctrine. Putin himself explains what’s changing and how now everyone should really fear him. Propagandists squeal with delight, throwing up caps and other headwear. Meanwhile, the West looks at the bunker dweller as if he were a half-crazy fool.

In the U.S., after watching this circus from the lives of aging animals, they decided to provide Ukraine with a huge military aid package, including things that had not been supplied before. For instance, high-precision aerial bombs weighing 500 kg with a range of 130 km. The total aid package amounts to nearly 8 billion dollars.

But according to Putin’s plan, the U.S., after hearing his statements about the new nuclear doctrine, should not have provided any of this. Yet the nuclear blackmail clearly didn’t work.

In the third stage, Putin was supposed to sign the new doctrine demonstratively and on camera. But what’s the point of doing so if the first two stages had already clearly failed? That’s why Dmitry Peskov didn’t name a date when the decree “On the Fundamentals of State Policy in the Field of Nuclear Deterrence” — the official name of Russia’s nuclear doctrine — would be published.

Peskov immediately added that the new version of the document might not be published at all. And he further stated that if anything changes, they will let us know.

As long as the decree is not published, it does not come into force. Putin’s circle understands that all the horror stories in the new doctrine had no effect on the West, and once again his thug-like swagger led to nothing. In short — curtains.