Russia’s Saber-Rattling Prefaces Looming Debate on US Nuclear Weapons Policy, Modernization by John Haughey – US Politics News

News Analysis
While it’s easy to dismiss Russia’s most recent threat to use tactical nuclear weapons, the circumstances and specificity—menacing British military installations “outside Ukraine”—are raising eyebrows, if not overt alarm.
“Oh, I for sure think it’s real,” said Robert Peters, a research fellow for Nuclear Deterrence and Missile Defense at The Heritage Foundation’s Allison Center for National Security.
“Russia has been telegraphing nuclear threats for 18 months,” he told The Epoch Times. “It has performed miserably in Ukraine. This has become regime survival for [Russian Federation President Vladimir] Putin.
“If he loses in Ukraine, that’s the end of the system he’s spent a quarter-century building; of course, he’d use nuclear weapons to defend that system.”…