After General Christopher Donahue made remarks about Kaliningrad, a Russian lawmaker warned the United States about its nuclear doctrine. Newsweek contacted the United States. for clarification, as well as the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Departments of State and Defense. The war between Russia and Ukraine, which Russian President Vladimir Putin started in February 2022, has made people all over the world worry about nuclear weapons. Relations between Russia and the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a military alliance of the United States, Canada, and European allies, were already strained by the invasion of Ukraine. Compared to his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, President Donald Trump has taken a different approach to Russia and Ukraine, engaging with Moscow more directly and being more willing to criticize Ukrainian officials like President Volodymyr Zelensky. However, he has recently increased his criticism of Putin. What to Expect Russia looked into Donahue’s most recent remarks, which Defense News first reported. Defense News reported that Donahue stated that NATO is surrounded by Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave surrounded by Poland and Lithuania, and that the alliance could “take that down from the ground in a timeframe that is unheard of and faster than we’ve ever been able to do.” In remarks reported by Russian state media TASS, Leonid Slutsky, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Russian State Duma, responded to those remarks. “With all necessary retaliatory measures outlined, among other things, by Russia’s nuclear doctrine, an attack on the Kaliningrad Region will be an attack on Russia. “Before making such statements, the US general should take this into consideration,” Slutsky stated. He went on to say that NATO “threatens global security and stability.” This week, Slutsky is the second official from Russia to make nuclear threats to the United States. Dmitry Peskov, the spokesperson for the Kremlin, also stated that Russia’s nuclear doctrine “remains in effect” following Trump’s announcement that NATO allies and the United States will supply advanced weapons to Ukraine. According to Defense News, Donahue made the remarks at the LandEuro in Wiesbaden, Germany, where he was speaking about the “Eastern Flank Deterrence Line,” a plan to improve ground-based capabilities across the alliance. What Others Have to Say According to Defense News, Donahue stated, “We know what we have to develop, and the use case that we are using is you must [deter] from the ground.” The land domain is not losing importance; rather, it is increasing importance. A2AD [anti-access, aerial-denial] bubbles can now be destroyed from below. You can now command the sea from above. We are watching everything that takes place in Ukraine. Dr. “It’s merely trying to shore up the effect that America is going to be here for the long haul and that NATO is going to be a military organization for a lot longer,” University of Bath professor Stephen Hall told The Kyiv Independent of Donahue’s remarks. What Comes After? Despite the fact that there are no known plans for a Western attack on Kaliningrad, tensions between the United States and Russia are likely to continue to be high.
Russian lawmaker issues nuclear warning to US
