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He answers US new policy lowering the bar for first strike with nukes.

LINK –  https://youtu.be/iDGvrdqQZVY

Sputnik – Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Russia would use its nuclear weapon only as a response measure.

“The Russian leader announced his country’s development of new types of armaments, including intercontinental underwater drones, nuclear-powered cruise missiles, and a prospective hypersonic missile, and showed footage featuring tests of these weapons.”

Related – US to loosen nuclear weapons constraints and develop more ‘usable’ warheads

The new policy: 2018 US Nuclear Posture Review [PDF]

It has nuggets like this – ” The United States is incorporating nuclear capability onto the forward-deployable, nuclearcapable F-35 as a replacement for the current aging DCA [the F-15E jets].”

Opinion: The F-35 is only being purchased as a giveback bribe by nuke-partner nations tossing a bone to the US. – FC

Why the F-35 could ‘never in a million years’ beat the RAF Typhoon or the Russian Su-35 in a dogfight

Scientific American – What Went Wrong with the F-35, Lockheed Martin’s Joint Strike Fighter?
The F-35 was billed as a fighter jet that could do almost everything the U.S. military desired but has turned out to be one of the greatest boondoggles in recent military purchasing history

LINK – https://youtu.be/LY99w6Xu4XU

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