Russian President Vladimir Putin said the Russians were "in paradise" in the event of a foreign war.
Putin told a conference in the biography of Qatar to be known for repentance.
To move to be the beginning of a disaster of this kind because we do not believe in the concept of preventive strike.
"In such a situation we will wait for a nuclear strike," he said.
Russia's introduction of the United States in 2018, described by Moscow as "hostile and anti-Russian," requires new, weak nuclear weapons.
In 2015, Putin ordered the strengthening of Russia's deterrence and the modernization of Arab aggression in response to the strengthening of NATO's military presence on Russia's border.
Putin also spoke in a speech to the Russian State Duma in March
