This is the same country that has a secret nuclear stockpile (developed in partnership with Apartheid South Africa) with plans to use the threat of bombing their European "allies" as blackmail.
I read through this but was not able to find anything about bombing allies.
Can you point to exactly where it is written?
Israel has nuclear weapons and its MAD policies are probably the same as other nuclear powers.
It's funny because Putin has actually said that Russia will end up destroying the entire world in retaliation if Russia is ever attacked with nuclear weapons. But for some reason you don't see this quote get the same attention as the "Samson Option".
‘Why would we want a world without Russia?'
Days later, he reiterated his stance, implying that nuclear war — a “disaster for the entire world” — would be a response to a major attack against Russia: “as a citizen of Russia and the head of the Russian state, I must ask myself: ‘Why would we want a world without Russia?'”
‘Why would we want a world without Russia?'
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/01/27/commentary/w...
But with a much more controversial relationship with it neighbours, who’s land it illegally occupies and state policies that are compared to apartheid policies.