Posted on 04/01/2015 6:59:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Konstantin Sivkov has previously spoken about expecting to see American society "decay" and has elaborate plans for how that could happen.
What would happen if the Russians tried to launch nuclear bombs onto American soil, aiming to trigger a giant tsunami or the eruption of a supervolcano?
That was precisely the plan one Russian military analyst laid out to combat the West, and it's fit for a Superman comic book or an Eisnehower-era James Bond caper.
"The consequences will be catastrophic for the United States — a country just disappears," Konstantin Sivkov, director of the Academy of Geopolitical Problems in Moscow, wrote in the trade newspaper VPK News on Wednesday.
His sinister suggestions, dated March 25, were translated and reported by the Sydney Morning Herald.
Sivkov reportedly said he believes the multinational military alliance NATO is redoubling its forces against Russia, with America as the main aggressor.
His solution: a much colder cold war.
Russia's response, he said, should be "complete destruction of the enemy."
He's evidently given a monumental amount of thought into how that should happen.
"Geologists believe that the Yellowstone supervolcano could explode at any moment," Sivkov said, before claiming it would take "relatively small" effort to "initiate an eruption."
A 2013 study found that Yellowstone's supervolcano has enough molten rock to span the Earth's surface if it erupts.
The bellicose bureaucrat also names California's San Andreas fault line as "another vulnerable area" in America.
"A detonation of a nuclear weapon there can trigger catastrophic events like a coast-scale tsunami, which can completely destroy the infrastructure of the United States," he said.
He said the mass destruction would not only fend off alleged American antagonism toward Russia, but also make the "American elite" suffer for its country's military actions.
The revenge-minded Russian has railed on this topic before, telling the Russian newspaper Pravda in December that "American society will decay someday."
He also compared America's penal system to "Hitler's state machine," according to a translated interview.
Russians are still the bad guys
If they do that to Yellowstone, that’s pretty much the ball game for Earth, not just the US.
The decay in this country is mind boggling. I give it a year to 18 months before the Chinese or Wahhabi capture all of this wasting country. Our military is a mixture of faggots and pregnant women or wannabe pregnant women. We couldn’t even guard our own borders effectively.
That may not have occurred to Ivan; he doesn’t seem to be a really deep thinker.
It’s so stupid it’s not even worthy of commentary.
His geology is questionable but Russian intent is perfectly clear.
You need to calm down and take your medications.
The Cannikin test in the 70’s was 5 megaton at a depth of 5000’ and created a 6.2 on the richter scale. A surface or air burst could not even come close.
And yes, I have worked on nuke tests.
He also compared America’s penal system to “Hitler’s state machine,”
Pretty sad when I agree with the Russians on something!
I know one thing, after a nuclear exchange between Russia and the NATO nations.
I would much rather be a survivor in the United States, than one in Russia, over the following decades.
And I doubt that the area known formerly as Russia, would ever escape having been absorbed by China.
“I would much rather be a survivor in the United States, than one in Russia, over the following decades.”
No kidding.
Weird.
No one has figured out what day this is?
Konstantin Sivkov Is a Moron might be a better title.
I take no medication ever.No aspirin. I want you to demonstrate I am wrong. Please do it now!
Yeah, because I take commands from anonymous Internet posters, especially newbies, very seriously.
I guess he hasn’t seen the movie “2012”.
Russians would fare far worse in a nuclear exchange.
Our cities are mostly destroyed. Our productive people and many productive industries have fled our cities. It would be hard to destroy so much dispersed productivity.
Detroit, New Orleans, Newark, Oakland... all of these places were once prosperous centers of opulent wealth, prosperity and industry. Now, most are welfare toilets in need of flushing.
Russia has the opposite situation.
Their cities are still their centers of civilization and prosperity. Outside the cities the denizens are TB infected, vodka soaked, toothless, barefoot, illiterate peasants.
The survivors.
America’s survivors would be the red states. Nuking Yellowstone, Cumbra Vieja or the San Andreas Fault is a dumb idea, but it is informative to know what the Russians are thinking.
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