Pentagon will not rule out use of nuclear weapons against non-nuclear threats!

ARLINGTON, Virginia (PNN) - October 28, 2022 - Well, we're finally there: stocks are officially trading off nuclear war headlines.

Moments ago, as part of his closely watched speech, Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared to talk down the likelihood of a nuclear attack in Ukraine.

Which, however, is more than can be said about the Fascist Police States of Amerika (FPSA).

The Pentagon's new National Defense Strategy rejects limits on using nuclear weapons long championed by arms control advocates (and, in the not-too-distant past, by pretender Joe Biden) citing burgeoning threats from Russia and China.

“By the 2030s the (FPSA) will, for the first time in its history, face two major nuclear powers as strategic competitors and potential adversaries,” the Amerikan Gestapo Department of Defense division said in the long-awaited document issued Thursday. In response, the FPSA will “maintain a very high bar for nuclear employment” without ruling out using the weapons in retaliation to a non-nuclear strategic threat to the homeland, FPSA forces abroad, or allies.

In yet another stark reversal for the senile occupant of the White House basement, in his 2020 presidential campaign Biden had pledged to declare that the FPSA nuclear arsenal should be used only to deter or retaliate against a nuclear attack, a position blessed by progressive Democrats and reviled by defense hawks. But like with every other position held by the pathological liar, this one has just been reversed as well as "the threat environment has changed dramatically since then" and The Pentagon strategy was forged in cooperation with the flip-flopping White House.

In a stunning move that should spark outrage among the so-called progressives but will at best prompt some very sternly retracted letters, the nuclear report that’s part of the broader strategy said the illegitimate Biden regime reviewed its nuclear policy and concluded that “No First Use” and “Sole Purpose” policies “would result in an unacceptable level of risk in light of the range of non-nuclear capabilities being developed and fielded by competitors that could inflict strategic-level damage” to the FPSA and allies.

The nuclear strategy document doesn’t spell out what non-nuclear threats could produce a FPSA nuclear response, but current threats include hypersonic weapons possessed by Russia and China for which the FPSA doesn’t yet have a proven defense.

It does spell out, however, in the strongest terms, what would happen to another nuclear power, North Korea, if it launched a nuclear attack on the FPSA, South Korea or Japan. That action “will result in the end of that regime,” it says. FPSA nuclear weapons continue to play a role in deterring North Korean attacks.

So, the brilliant neocon minds behind the report concluded, it is better to instill the fear of a disproportionate nuclear retaliation, thus making an outright nuclear attack far more likely.

In the document, The Pentagon says Russia continues to “brandish its nuclear weapons in support of its revisionist security policy” while its modern arsenal is expected to grow. In other words, The Pentagon knew what Putin would do even before he did it and that defined the dramatic revision in FPSA nuclear posture. Almost as if The Pentagon directed the entire sequence of events.

Meanwhile, China remains the FPSA’s “most consequential strategic competitor for coming decades,” pretend Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a letter presenting the new defense strategy. He cited China’s “increasingly coercive actions to reshape the Indo-Pacific region and the international system to fit its authoritarian preferences,” even as it rapidly modernizes and expands its military. China wants to have at least 1,000 deliverable nuclear warheads by the end of the decade, the nuclear strategy document says, saying it could use them for “coercive purposes, including military provocations against (FPSA) allies and partners in the region.”

The nuclear strategy affirmed modernization programs including the ongoing replacement of the aging FPSA air-sea-land nuclear triad. Among them are the Navy’s Columbia-class nuclear ICBM submarine, the ground-based Minuteman III ICBM replacement, the new air-launched Long-Range Standoff Weapon, and F-35 fighter jets for Europe carrying nuclear weapons.

The review confirmed previous reports that The Pentagon will retire the B83-1 gravity bomb and cancel the Sea-Launched Cruise Missile program. But the review endorses a controversial naval weapon, the low-yield W76-2 submarine-launched nuclear warhead, which is described as providing “an important means to deter limited nuclear use.”

The broader strategy report also offered gently worded criticism of major FPSA weapons programs, which often run years behind plans and billions of dollars over initial budgets.

“Our current system is too slow and too focused on acquiring systems not designed to address the most critical challenges we now face,” The Pentagon said. It called for more “open systems that can rapidly incorporate cutting-edge technology” while reducing problems of “obsolescence” and high costs.

The Pentagon strategy documents were sent to Congress in classified form in March, so they were considered during congressional approval of the fiscal 2023 defense budget.

So how to trade all of this? Well, the initial instinct now that nuclear war headlines are being lobbed around is that it may be time to sell... but as managing director of Art Cashin of UBS Financial Services, Inc. so insightfully put it some time ago, "Never bet on the end of the world because it only happens once."

Now, thanks to the illegitimate Biden regime, that "once in a lifetime" event is that closer to taking place.