{"id":936382,"date":"2024-05-22T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T14:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/?p=936382"},"modified":"2024-05-22T17:27:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T14:27:35","slug":"russia-s-nuclear-saber-rattling-aimed-at-influencing-western-decision-makers-isw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russia-s-nuclear-saber-rattling-aimed-at-influencing-western-decision-makers-isw\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s \u2018nuclear saber-rattling\u2019 aimed at influencing Western decision-makers &#8211; ISW"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Kremlin acts in the way so that its \u201cnuclear saber-rattling\u201d overlaps with major policy discussions in the West, impacting Western decision-makers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) stated this in its latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.understandingwar.org\/backgrounder\/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-may-21-2024\">report<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ISW recalled that the Russian Ministry of Defense announced on May 21 that missile elements of the Southern Military District (SMD) began the first stage of non-strategic (tactical) nuclear weapons exercises. In addition, Russian Aerospace Forces will also exercise with Iskander ballistic missiles and Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Experts add that a famous Kremlin-awarded military blogger explicitly tied Russian tactical nuclear weapons exercises to Kremlin efforts to have influence on the discussions about the restrictions on Ukraine&#8217;s use of Western-provided weapons to strike military targets in Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c[This is] echoing ISW&#8217;s assessment that Russia&#8217;s tactical nuclear weapons tests are part of a Kremlin reflexive control campaign that often uses nuclear saber-rattling to influence Western decision-makers to engage in self-deterrence,\u201d the report says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time, ISW keeps saying that Western limits on Ukraine&#8217;s ability to strike military targets in Russia are \u201cseverely compromising Ukraine&#8217;s ability to defend itself against current Russian offensive operations in northern Kharkiv Oblast or any area along the international border where Russian forces may choose to conduct offensive operations in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read also: <a href=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/putin-is-reason-world-is-closer-to-dangerous-nuclear-escalation-than-ever-british-pm\/\">Putin is reason world is closer to dangerous nuclear escalation than ever \u2013 British PM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kremlin acts in the way so that its \u201cnuclear saber-rattling\u201d overlaps &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,36415],"tags":[76],"sources":[],"class_list":["post-936382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-en","category-11473-news-en","tag-glavnoe-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Russia\u2019s \u2018nuclear saber-rattling\u2019 aimed at influencing Western decision-makers - ISW - Freedom<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russia-s-nuclear-saber-rattling-aimed-at-influencing-western-decision-makers-isw\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Russia\u2019s \u2018nuclear saber-rattling\u2019 aimed at influencing Western decision-makers - ISW - Freedom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Kremlin acts in the way so that its \u201cnuclear saber-rattling\u201d overlaps ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russia-s-nuclear-saber-rattling-aimed-at-influencing-western-decision-makers-isw\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Freedom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-05-22T14:19:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-22T14:27:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/630_360_1716358093-307.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"360\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"\u041b\u0443\u0431\u0447\u0430\u043a \u0412\u0430\u0434\u0438\u043c\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"\u041b\u0443\u0431\u0447\u0430\u043a \u0412\u0430\u0434\u0438\u043c\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russia-s-nuclear-saber-rattling-aimed-at-influencing-western-decision-makers-isw\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russia-s-nuclear-saber-rattling-aimed-at-influencing-western-decision-makers-isw\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\u041b\u0443\u0431\u0447\u0430\u043a \u0412\u0430\u0434\u0438\u043c\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/7bce47e71983286745557a9c3b9eaa8b\"},\"headline\":\"Russia\u2019s \u2018nuclear saber-rattling\u2019 aimed at influencing Western decision-makers &#8211; 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