{"id":136697,"date":"2022-03-11T01:44:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T09:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/russias-crazy-nuclear-war-strategy-escalationto-de-escalate"},"modified":"2022-03-11T01:44:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T09:44:49","slug":"russias-crazy-nuclear-war-strategy-escalationto-de-escalate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/russias-crazy-nuclear-war-strategy-escalationto-de-escalate","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s Crazy Nuclear War Strategy: Escalation\u2026to De-escalate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/russias-crazy-nuclear-war-strategy-escalationto-de-escalate3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What does this actually mean in concrete terms? And is it an accurate description of Russia\u2019s nuclear doctrine?<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/profile\/mark-episkopos\">Mark Episkopos<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The recent round of <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/blog\/buzz\/russia-not-happy-putin-responds-biden-calling-him-killer-180564'\">tensions<\/a> in the consistently difficult relationship between Russia and the U.S. has prompted a renewed focus on the Kremlin\u2019s nuclear posture. For years, Western analysts have posited that Moscow adheres to what is often called an \u201cescalate to de-escalate\u201d approach. But what does this mean in concrete policy terms, and is it an accurate description of Russia\u2019s nuclear doctrine?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does this actually mean in concrete terms? And is it an accurate description of Russia\u2019s nuclear doctrine? By Mark Episkopos The recent round of tensions in the consistently difficult relationship between Russia and the U.S. has prompted a renewed focus on the Kremlin\u2019s nuclear posture. For years, Western analysts have posited that Moscow adheres [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}