from Sputnik News:
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov earlier stressed that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decree to update the country’s nuclear doctrine can be considered as a clear signal to the West.
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Russia’s updated nuclear doctrine aims to “put the West on notice”, Larry Johnson, retired CIA intelligence officer and State Department official, told Sputnik.
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Western countries “are creating a more dangerous situation and creating a direct threat to Russia, which is prepared to respond. That’s the message Moscow is trying to send,” Johnson said, praising the Kremlin’s adherence to key agreements.
“Russia has always signed these in good faith and abided by them, whether it was like the START Treaty or the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty or their Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty or the Minsk Agreement – Minsk 1 and Minsk 2″, the ex-CIA office emphasized.
