'The consequences will be catastrophic for the United States'

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.

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.

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 know there would be scattered, isolated communities in Siberia east of the Urals that would survive, but they would most likely be on their own for a long, long time. Also, you would run into the Chi-Coms or what's left of them and/or the muzzies who live in the "stans" to the South. I remember talking about this with fellow "Twilight: 2000" role playing gamers. I think you're right, a U.S. survivor would be better off plus with two oceans and the Gulf of Mexico, trade would be easier with any surviving nations in South America.

‘If they do that to Yellowstone, that’s pretty much the ball game for Earth, not just the US.’

‘Yellowstone nuking’ is a kind of like older Soviet military urban myth along with ‘San-Andreas nuking’ which is about to hit certain zones near the West Coast to force seismic process, separating California from mainland US and lowering it below Ocean level.

I don’t believe both things are possible and it is unlikely that operations like that were ever planned for real.

On the other hand, Communists proved itself as very capable in terms of out of proportion awful crimes against nature.
Who knows?

I know there would be scattered, isolated communities in Siberia east of the Urals that would survive, but they would most likely be on their own for a long, long time.

Just to play devil's advocate: Russia has invested massive amounts of resources in creating huge, underground facilities for the event of nuclear war. These underground complexes are the size of cities, and are apparently well stocked (I would take all public information with a grain of salt, of course), and are apparently designed for both military and civilian populations. These are not mere bunkers -- they are essentially well-stocked underground cities.

Second, a primitive economy is generally more tolerant of overwhelming shocks than more advanced economies. People are generally used to a certain state of poverty; they are more self-sufficient (by necessity); and they won't have hordes of people wholly unsuited to a more primitive existence (the vast majority of US citizens would fare quite badly if the economy fell apart -- most people don't even know how to darn their own socks, let alone feed a family without going to a supermarket). In much of Russia, life would go on pretty much as it is now, since they are largely independent of the larger economy.

Third, they should have no real fear of China. They could nuke China into oblivion (especially with the way their population is clustered), and can resort back to their underground cities should China try to retaliate.

Fourth, while obviously people in rural and semi-rural areas would fare reasonably well, for a while, there would be a lot of survivors in the cities and suburbs. Basically, it is almost inconceivable that American society wouldn't splinter. If you think that this country has major divisions now ...

By contrast, Russia would be housing much of their urban population underground, with the more rural areas already relatively self-sufficient; barring a major disaster in their military and police, they would have little difficulty maintaining order (relative to the US).

Russia never bought into the idea that nuclear war was unwinnable, or that it was an extinction event. Unfortunately, we fell for that hook, line, and sinker. This puts us at a tremendous disadvantage, should it ever come to that. While they prepared, we listened to fools. I just hope we never pay the price for our hubris.

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