Putin Announces Revised Nuclear Doctrine—World at Razor’s Edge of General War

International Peace Coalition Meeting
September 27, 2024, 11am ET

On Wednesday Sept. 25, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced proposed revisions of Russia’s standing doctrine for the use of nuclear weapons, which significantly lowers the threshold for their use – at exactly the moment that new military action by the United States and NATO, acting through Ukraine, is about to cross that threshold. Unless Washington’s policy of seeking the strategic destruction of Russia is changed immediately, the world stands at the brink of global thermonuclear warfare.

“The use of nuclear forces is an extreme measure to protect the country’s sovereignty,” Putin began his 4-minute statement. “Today, the nuclear triad remains the most important guarantee to ensure the security of our state and citizens… At the same time, we see that the modern military political situation is changing dynamically.” For that reason, Putin announced, Russia’s proposed new nuclear doctrine states that “aggression against Russia by any non-nuclear state, but with a participation or support of a nuclear state, should be considered a joint attack on the Russian Federation.”

Putin further announced that Russia will “consider such a possibility [of using nuclear weapons – ed.] as soon as reliable information is obtained about the mass launch of an aerospace attack and the crossing of our state borders. This includes strategic or tactical aircraft, cruise missiles, drones, hypersonic and other airborne vehicles.”

Putin made this announcement at a regular meeting of Russia’s Security Council which was broadcast live. It was timed to occur 24 hours prior to the scheduled Sept. 26 meeting of President Joe Biden and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky. That meeting will focus on whether or not Washington will finally give the green light for launching NATO’s sophisticated-guidance, long-range missiles (such as Britain’s Storm Shadow cruise missiles) against Russia from the territory of Ukraine.

As former UN weapons inspector and Marine intelligence officer Scott Ritter made clear at last week’s meeting of the International Peace Coalition: “So, when a Storm Shadow is fired against a target inside Russia, it is literally being targeted by NATO. NATO is approving the target, and facilitating the use of this weapons system against the target” through sophisticated guidance systems which use real-time encrypted GPS signals from U.S. and other NATO satellites.

Launching such weapons would now clearly fall within Russia’s guidelines for permitted nuclear response.

Will Biden – or more accurately, Collective Biden – sign off on the demented plan, which originates in London? Numerous Western media, such as The Hill and MSN, wrote today that “reports suggest Biden is on the verge of allowing Ukraine to launch the long-range weapons.”

Americans and Europeans have to make their voices heard ASAP. And the rest of the world, gathered at the UN General Assembly now underway in New York City, and aghast at the wars sweeping the planet, must weigh in forcibly to demand a negotiated solution to the Ukraine crisis – and the Israel-Palestine war as well – based on achieving peace through common development.

There are proposals on the table to do just that. China and Brazil have called a meeting at the UN on Friday Sept. 27, inviting 20 leading nations to discuss their peace plan for a negotiated solution to the Ukraine war.

As Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche insisted today: “It would be so easy for the West to plug in, as equals, to what China and the BRICS are doing to make the world a better place.”

The 69th weekly meeting of the International Peace Coalition will be held on Friday, Sept. 27 at 11 a.m. ET. Speakers will be announced soon.

[stanleytesla]

"...because the problem is that the general population still has no clue..."
Exactly!
"The general population doesn't know what's happening & it doesn't even know that it doesn't know." - Noam Chomsky -

[ianLord]

Thank you so much to all participants in this extremely important conversation. I cannot even begin to describe the dismay I feel when I listen to our Western so called "officials" and their total disregard for the existential dangers they are pushing the world towards.

[benwarnock]

So ridiculous if this is how our species ends

[robinwalker]

Thank you all for your important contributions. Worrying times ahead.

[fionamarywaddy]

We must reinstate treaties and arms controls the injury the weapons are capable of is grave and unspeakable and completely unsound. We must work together to resolve these conflicts

[parttimethinker]

It’s so humiliating to see our government leaders’ words are of no value on world stage.

[ssebitaabawamala]

Kier Starmer! Stop the nonsense actually

[fh]

It would be nice to have a clip of Glen Diessen's section available to share.

[nickparkes]

Depressing comment about the division between movements, there should be only one peace movement, but then we live in a world where division is everywhere and my truth rather than the truth reigns

[vizak]

Please make the video downloadable so we can distribute, thankyou.

[DwynAgGaire]

I was having a nice back an forth with a Ukrainian the other day on yt, the video was produced CSIS discussing the failures to predict Putin's invasion of Ukraine. I of course tried to bring up the other side of the coin and promote some critical thinking in the chat. What would the US do in the same circumstances? and such (I'm being intentionally vague for the censor) but the majority of my posts disappeared. The conversations were quite nice, well mannered, and in the correct tone for dialogue but the censor really did not want me raising these questions. Here was an opportunity for communication with someone in a different media bubble but the system is actively preventing it. This is a small travesty in the scheme of things but I felt silenced and then a quite ominous feeling that this is by design.

[sungkhmerbonna]

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[SteveWork]

It is sad to say but many people are suffering and driven into poverty, unable to have dreams and goals that were possible of parents and before - marriage, family, modest vacations - but the most powerful families and elite manager-Class increase the abuse and horror, such people see a full scale nuke war that removed enough people to remove those in power and their elite minions, that if they live through it and the aftermath, that solution is better then we have now.

God Bless., Steven

[JG-kvpg]

With every show of solidarity, Ukraine’s hope grows stronger

[stevem]

Ukraine’s fight for justice reflects the unwavering resolve of the human spirit.