So who was Dmitri Kiselyov speaking for? Just himself?http://www.independent.ie/life/no-more-illusions-putins-nuclear-option-3...
''During the era of political romanticism, the Soviet Union pledged never to use nuclear weapons first," Kiselyov told the audience of Vesti Nedeli, his current affairs show, one of the country's most widely watched programmes. "But Russia's current military doctrine does not." He paused briefly for effect. "No more illusions."
yawn. As you should know, if you are not simply quoting the State Department of the Yanqui Empire, Kieslyov is a popular journalist. He can say whatever he likes, true or false, without personal consequences.
Since you obviously didn't read my remarks, I will repeat them.
Both Escobar and Cohen are aware, as you seem not to be, that the ferocity of "conventional" weapons now comes very close to or exceeds the damage of nuclear weapons. So, for example, an overwhelming use of conventional force by NATO in an unprovoked attack on Russia, on a wide front, could get a nuclear reply.
That is an example of "first strike" according to Russian military doctrine. This is completely different from the US first strike policy, a policy that has now lasted decades and decades, of an attack the purpose of which is to pre-emptively annihilate a rival in global affairs.
The monstrous US regime considers this perfectly normal [and, as I've already noted, has had this policy for decades and decades, lasting from the Soviet period, to the "friendly period" with Russia, to the current re-newed Cold War].
So, it seems, do you.