Strong powers completely failed to deter a conventional attack by a weak one, so we should now be prepared for deterrence to fail again.
For three decades, Americans did not think seriously about nuclear weapons. Instead, they resorted to slogans, such as the one President Biden adopted just last June in aRussian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with the head of Russia's Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, a big business lobby group, at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 2, 2022.Moreover, Biden could be going beyond mere sloganeering.
"This gives the enemy the initiative, should they wish to go nuclear under an escalation-to-win strategy, and seriously undercuts the extended nuclear umbrella deterrent that we provide to ourlast year, referring to Biden adopting such policies."This would be a huge gift to China and Russia," noted a"European official" to theChina, Russia's"no limits" partner , has formally adopted No First Use. And Beijing is keenly watching what happens in Ukraine.
If Putin's nuke threats prevent others coming to Ukraine's rescue, he will undoubtedly employ similar warnings to grab the Baltic States, Poland and other areas. The ambitious Russian leader wants to reassemble the Soviet Union, but it looks like he also harbors even grander ambitions, such as incorporating all the territories of the old Russian Empire. He may even be looking for more than that.
China is also demanding"lost" territory. To grab it, Beijing has periodically made unprovoked threats to incinerate American population centers. And beginning last July, Chinese propaganda talked about lobbing nuclear weapons into Japanese and Australian cities.
President Biden, when asked on February 28 whether Americans should be worried about a nuclear attack, gave a
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