Stock Futures Fall as Putin Expands Russia’s Nuclear Doctrine

Stock Futures Fall as Putin Expands Russia’s Nuclear Doctrine·Barrons.com

Stock futures fell early Tuesday as Russia’s Vladimir Putin updated the country’s nuclear doctrine. The changes mean that Russia will now view any attack by a non-nuclear country supported by a nuclear power as a joint attack, Russian news agency TASS reported Tuesday. “Moscow also reserves the right to consider a nuclear response to a conventional weapons attack threatening its sovereignty, a large-scale launch of enemy aircraft, missiles, and drones targeting Russian territory, their crossing of the Russian border, and an attack on its ally Belarus,” TASS added.

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