I'm not sure any public statements on nuclear doctrine should be taken literally. After reading the official statements of nuclear use, Like the latest on

I'm not sure any public statements on nuclear doctrine should be taken literally. After reading the official statements of nuclear use, Like the latest one from Russia (Dec. 2024) which pretty much amounts to "whenever the fuck we feel like it?" https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2024-12/news/russia-revises-nuclear-use-doctrine https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2024-12/news/russia-revises-... It says that Russia may use nuclear weapons in the event of “aggression against the Russian Federation and/or the Republic of Belarus…with the use of conventional weapons, creating a critical threat to their sovereignty and/or territorial integrity.” Of course, they don't define what "critical threat" means. Ukraine has occupied Kursk for half a year now. Is that... a threat? A critical one?