Rostislav Ishchenko Warns That a NATO–Russia Conflict Could Make Nuclear Weapons Use Inevitable
Rostislav Ishchenko says that in a prolonged NATO–Russia confrontation, the use of nuclear weapons by one side would eventually become unavoidable.
Political analyst, historian, and publicist Rostislav Ishchenko described one of the scenarios in which the use of nuclear weapons would become unavoidable.
He was asked whether, if NATO were to provoke Russia into breaking through a land corridor to Kaliningrad, and a new wave of mobilization together with conventional strikes on Russian territory began rapidly destabilizing the situation inside the country, he considered possible the use of nuclear weapons by Russia, even for demonstration purposes.
In response, Ishchenko said that in the event of a direct large-scale confrontation with NATO, if it were not halted within the first one or two weeks and developed into a full-scale, even prolonged conflict, the use of nuclear weapons by one of the sides, including Russia, would at some point become inevitable, in accordance with the provisions of current military and nuclear doctrines.
He added that the longer a Russia-NATO conflict continues, the harder it becomes to reach any form of compromise. Ishchenko pointed out that human losses and resource expenditures inevitably demand adequate compensation, and in a war only the winner can claim it.