need breathing space otherwise we re prepared to go the next step. i think we in media by saying this is esscalatory esscalatory is different, dangerous, and for those who say this is we need to mask it they use the word escalate to deescalate. assuming that is part of russian doctrine, that is not in any russian doctrine, that is from 2015, american arm services committee hearing, when they were asked to summarize what the doctrine was a russian military doctrine published 3 years prior, it made its way to u.s. nuclear review as a way of