Mattis has accused Russia of defending the theory of "nuclear escalation"

The United States believes that Russia advocates the theory of "Nuclear escalation" in armed conflicts and that Moscow continues to modernize its nuclear arsenal. This point of view was expressed on tuesday by the minister of defence of the USA james mattis during a hearing before the committee on armed services of the house of representatives of the U.S. Congress. while Russia has only a reduced part of its strategic nuclear arsenal required by the treaty on measures for the further reduction and limitation of strategic offensive arms (start i), Russia at the same time modernized its nuclear weapons and other nuclear systems. Moscow advocates the theory of "Nuclear escalation" in military conflicts, he said, adding that beijing also is modernizing its nuclear arsenal. we are talking about the provisions set out in the common last week, the new nuclear doctrine of the United States.

In it, in particular, argues that "The greatest concern is the policy, strategy and national security doctrine of russia, including the emphasis on the threat of limited nuclear escalation, and the continued development and deployment of Moscow's increasingly wide range of different nuclear weapons". mattis said, and that Moscow and beijing have decided to compete with Washington. States such as Russia and China decided to be strategic competitors [usa] and create a world appropriate to their authoritarian model and applying the right of veto for economic, political decisions and solutions in the field of security of other states, he said. .