by Joseph P. Farrell, Giza Death Star:

A couple of weeks ago I commented both in my News and Views and in some subsequent written blogs on the recent op-ed piece in the Russia Today (RT) website by Professor Kaganarov, who basically argued that Russia must consider nuclear escalation and the “twenty-four steps” leading up to it, in its ongoing war with the West over the Ukraine. In arguing that Russia must consider everything including the nuclear option as being “on the table” , Kaganarov was really saying – as I interpreted him – that everything else must also be components of Russia’s escalation strategy, including “horizontal” escalations, i.e., “responses in kind” against western provocations or involvement in asymmetrical  strikes on Russian targets. What does this mean?