Putin Updates Nuclear Doctrine
Glenn Diesen¹
Zelensky is on his “victory plan” tour to the U.S. this week, where he is once again pleading with the Biden Administration to lift restrictions on Kiev’s use of long-range missiles against Moscow—therefore directly involving Washington in the strikes deep inside Russian territory.
This, as Russian President Putin updated Moscow’s nuclear doctrine this week to state that “aggression against Russia by any non-nuclear state” that is “supported by a nuclear power should be treated as their joint attack.”
@Glenn_Diesen noted that Russia is being forced to draw firm red lines, as NATO has exploited its previous warnings… and the results of the current escalations will have major implications for the overall conflict.
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1. Glenn Eric Andre Diesen (born 1979) is a Norwegian political scientist.
He is a professor at the University of
South-Eastern Norway.
Diesen obtained a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Wollongong in 2001 and a Master of Business from the University of Sydney in 2004.
He studied Russian language and literature at Saint Petersburg State University in 2004. Diesen went on to obtain a master’s degree in international relations from Macquarie University in 2009 and a PhD in politics and international relations jointly from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Macquarie University in 2014, with a dissertation under the supervision of Wolfgang Wagner and Steve Wood entitled Inter-democratic Security Institutions and the Security Dilemma: EU and NATO relations with Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
His dissertation addressed the ideational and institutional influence on the rationality of EU and NATO decision-makers from a neoclassical realist perspective.
