Posted on 10/06/2023 5:46:28 AM PDT by Red Badger
The Russians are feverishly preparing to fight a nuclear war, but our leaders continue to insist that nuclear war is not a threat because the Russians would never use their nuclear weapons against us no matter how much we may provoke them. In fact, I was just reading an article on the official NATO website that was authored by a former U.S. defense official in which he openly admitted that he is assuming “that the war in Ukraine will end without Russian nuclear use”. Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin continues to make public statements about nuking America. This week, he told the entire world that there will be “no chance of survival” once he launches his nuclear missiles at us…
President Vladimir Putin has threatened the West with total nuclear destruction leaving ‘no chance of survival’ in the event of a strike on Russia.
In a ranting anti-US speech, the dictator said his powerful ‘Satan-2’ and ‘Flying Chernobyl’ missiles are ready for deployment in an ominous doomsday warning.
Putin told a conference in Sochi: ‘From the moment the launch of missiles is detected, no matter where it comes from – from any point of the world ocean or from any territory – such a number, so many hundreds of our missiles appear in the air in a retaliatory strike that there is no chance of survival there will be no single enemy left, and in several directions at once.’
I don’t know why our leaders are not taking such statements seriously.
If the Russians feel backed into a corner, they will not hesitate to use their most powerful weapons. As I have repeatedly warned my readers, we do not have the ability to intercept and destroy Russian nuclear missiles.
Once the Russians launch their missiles, they will hit their targets.
And now the Sarmat is ready. It is the most advanced intercontinental missile in the entire world by a very wide margin, and Putin says that the Sarmat will be put on combat duty “in the near future”…
He also claimed: ‘We have actually finished work on Sarmat [Satan-2] on the super-heavy missile…’
This ‘unstoppable’ 15,880mph Armageddon intercontinental missile system is the size of a 14-storey tower block.
‘We just need to finish some of the procedures in a purely administrative and bureaucratic way and move on to mass production and putting them on combat duty,’ Putin said.
‘And we will do this in the near future.’
Meanwhile, hopelessly outdated Minuteman missiles that went into service in the 1970s still form the backbone of our strategic nuclear arsenal.
The S-500 anti-missile system that the Russians possess was specifically designed “for intercepting and destroying intercontinental ballistic missiles”, and it could handle Minuteman missiles with relative ease.
But just in case some get through, the Russians have been spending enormous amounts of money to upgrade thousands of bomb shelters…
Bomb shelters across Russia are undergoing systematic inspections and repairs following a Kremlin order to upgrade the country’s crumbling Soviet-era infrastructure, according to current and former officials who spoke to The Moscow Times.
Many of Russia’s thousands of bunkers, reinforced cellars and other safe hideouts have been mothballed for decades. But as the war in Ukraine drags on, local authorities appear to be spending hundreds of millions of rubles to again make them fit for habitation.
“A decision to inspect the network of bomb shelters was made by the government in the spring,” said one Russian official, citing knowledge of government meetings that have taken place on the subject.
And this week in Russia there was a nationwide drill meant to prepare the general population for a potential nuclear attack…
SIRENS blared out across Russia today and children donned gas masks as part of a terrifying drill for an incoming nuclear attack.
The eerie siren could be heard across the country and chilling messages were broadcast live as Putin forced his citizens to endure a WW3 drill.
Chilling footage even shows schoolchildren being taught how to correctly don gas masks.
Sirens and loudspeakers were sounded in all regions across Russia’s 11 time zones in drills that spawned two days.
They are practicing because they believe that something like this could actually happen.
At the same time, our leaders continue to assure us that there is no risk of a full-blown nuclear conflict. So who is right and who is wrong?
If we were smart, we would try to end the war in Ukraine before things get out of hand.
The much-hyped Ukrainian “counter-offensive” has been a dismal failure, and now a top NATO official is admitting that Europe is literally running out of weapons to send to Ukraine…
The head of NATO’s Military Committee is urging the alliance to increase arms production, warning the “bottom of the barrel” of NATO’s stockpiles is now visible due to the massive amounts of weapons and ammunition that have been shipped to Ukraine.
Dutch Adm. Rob Bauer made the comments on the first day of the Warsaw Security Forum. He said NATO military budgets increased before the Russian invasion but that the Western arms industry did not increase production capacity.
“And that has led to higher prices already before the war. And that actually has (been) exacerbated by the fact that we now give away weapon systems to Ukraine, which is great, and ammunition, but not from full warehouses,” Bauer said, according to TVP World.
“We started to give away from half-full or lower warehouses in Europe and therefore the bottom of the barrel is now visible. And we need the industry to ramp up production at a much higher tempo and we need large volumes,” he added.
Here in the United States, the chaos in Congress could mean much less military aid for Ukraine in the months ahead.
When she was asked about this, one Ukrainian official admitted that this would be “a disaster” for them…
Days after lawmakers shelved a vital U.S. plan to send billions of dollars in aid to Kyiv, U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted by his own Republican Party colleagues. Aid to Ukraine was named as one of the reasons.
In Kyiv, officials are at a loss as to what might happen next. Their staunchest military ally suddenly looks unreliable, despite assurances from President Biden and others the U.S. will remain steadfast until Ukraine’s invaders are defeated.
“We are freaking out. For us it is a disaster,” said Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, a senior Ukrainian MP who chairs the committee on the country’s integration with the European Union. “We are interested in getting things sorted out so American democracy can function, and so we can restore the bipartisan consensus on supporting their own national interest by supporting Ukraine.”
Of course there should be no “bipartisan consensus” because at this point most Americans are against sending Ukraine more weapons…
The share of Americans across the political spectrum who support sending arms to Ukraine has dropped, according to a Reuters/Ipsos survey released Thursday.
The poll, conducted Tuesday and Wednesday, showed only 41 percent of respondents said they agreed that the United States should provide weapons to Ukraine, down from 65 percent of respondents who said the same in a June 2023 survey.
Meanwhile, military spending in Russia is scheduled to dramatically increase next year, and 50,000 new recruits signed up to fight for Russia in the month of September alone.
From a simply strategic viewpoint, it would make sense to try to get some sort of a ceasefire before the Russians start grabbing significant chunks of territory again. But the Biden administration will never go for that.
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Joe Biden has said over and over again that we will be involved in the war in Ukraine “for as long as it takes”. And every day that this war continues, there is more of a chance that someone will push things a bit too far and nukes will start flying.
Before I end this article, there is one more thing that I wanted to share with you.
According to a shocking new survey that was just released, more than 71 percent of Americans “have no faith in the U.S. government to save them or prevent a doomsday event”…
According to a survey of 6,200 Americans conducted by BonusFinder.com, 71.2 percent of Americans say they have no faith in the U.S. government to save them or prevent a doomsday event. Even more unnerving, many respondents believe Doomsday could come within the next year.
I was surprised to see such a high number. But I think that it accurately reflects what so many people are feeling right now.
The Biden administration really does have us on a highway to disaster, and they have no intention of changing course.
Unfortunately for all of us, if a nuclear war between the United States and Russia does erupt, it will mean the end of our society and billions of people could end up dead.
Since Russia's first Yasen-class nuclear-powered guided-missile submarine, Severodvinsk, entered service in late 2013, two decades after its construction began, other subs of the class have followed at quicker intervals, and Russian leaders are now considering adding even more of these subs to a fleet that has already impressed and worried NATO commanders with its ability to avoid detection and strike at valuable targets
https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-yasen-class-subs-land-attack-missiles-worry-nato-militaries-2022-7#:~:text=Since%20Russia%27s%20first%20Yasen-class%20nuclear-powered%20guided-missile%20submarine%2C%20Severodvinsk%2C,to%20avoid%20detection%20and%20strike%20at%20valuable%20targets.
“To avoid a nuclear war we must use nukes. Great plan…”
Lots of Russians can read English and see that many of the Neocons literally think that Russian nukes either don’t work, will miss their targets, or we can take them all out first, hence the need to remind these idiots (and soon demonstrate via testing) that their nukes work.
HUGE DIFFERENCE from our leaders during the Cold War, who were not living in a hate-filled fantasy land (which is why we survived it).
Just a few years after the Putin was first elected, one of our econ mags did a big piece exclaiming that Putin was an economic genius.
And explained all the things he had done for Russia.
Course it is long scrubbed I am sure..but I remember it.
I think online discussion has allowed stupidity, and no accountability, to grow.
Hopefully I’m wrong and internal thoughts that never used to make it to the public sphere are responsible.
The idea of starting a nuclear war with Russia based upon hope that their stockpile isn’t functional is absolutely insane.
What is more anti-conservative than promoting nuclear war?
“The idea of starting a nuclear war with Russia based upon hope that their stockpile isn’t functional is absolutely insane.”
The people claiming such need to be removed from office and removed from this forum. At least on this forum, it’s simply trolling and they FULLY understand that.
1.China ($31.559 billion) 2.US ($23.149 billion) 3.India ($15.875 billion) 4.Japan ($5.675 billion) 5. Russia ($5.510 billion) 6. Germany ($5.011 billion) 7. Indonesia ($4.811 billion) 8. Brazil ($4.288 billion) 9. Turkey ($3.696 billion) 10. France ($3.533 billion)
Typo? The annual US GDP is in the trillions.
Not to quibble, but other sources rank the countries differently. There must be a lot of variables in getting these figures. The "US Debt Clock" puts US GDP at $27 trillion. Another source has these numbers for 2022:
US: $20.89 trillion China: $14.72 trillion Japan: $5.06 trillion Germany: $3.85 trillion United Kingdom: $2.67 trillion India: $2.66 trillion France: $2.63 trillion Italy: $1.89 trillion Canada: $1.64 trillion South Korea: $1.63 trillion Russia: $1.48 trillion Brazil: $1.44 trillion Australia: $1.32 trillion Spain: $1.28 trillion Indonesia: $1.05 trillion
Agreed.
The difference in those numbers, of course, is that numbers in the top list are Purchasing Power Parity (PPP), which accounts for cost of living differences and thus is far more accurate regarding how people live.
—> Obviously. If you’re not smarter than a pig, you can’t claim to know more than the pig.
Agree!
You are far smarter than me 🤗
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Do you think I don’t look for information? Never trust completely what you read or watch. Agendas and narratives are being built and told by every side.
I just disagree with you and the sensationalism about this submarine.
All submarines have the ability to avoid detection and strike at valuable targets. Avoid doesn’t mean untraceable. The Russian did not make a giant breakthrough with the Belgorod. It’s a good sub! But evolutionary for their subs, not revolutionary, and their subs are noisy.
I served too many years in the military to fall for the media, regardless of the article or who writes it, because they need fear and shock to get readers interest.
We agree 100%. The question is, how long will he be there? My guess, and it simply is a guess, is at least until 1/20/25. That's quite a long time for more damage or a crisis to occur.
So we must either wait him out, or fail.
Very true. OR FAIL!
Also, I don’t think it is likely at all that the Russians will take out Ukraine. How? What will they do that they’ve haven’t already done?
All I see is stalemate, many more deaths, much treasure exhausted.
This is likely where we disagree. I do somewhat agree with the second part of your statement. But, keep this in mind: the Russians moved in and, in less than six months, claimed/annexed the Russian-speaking territory. They control 20% or so of the country and have from almost the beginning.
Russia never claimed they wanted to take the country of Ukraine. They stated they had very simple objectives: demilitarization, denazification, and liberation of Russian-speaking regions.
Regardless of what you see and hear from our government and media, the Russians are smart people. They have made progress in achieving their stated goals (not the goals attributed to them by others). In addition, they put up the first orbital satellite; they have advanced war machines and the means to produce them. Heck, we even paid them to send our astronauts into space when we could not do it. They have the most nuke warheads and the means to deliver them.
So, in my opinion, they have accomplished many good things for themselves -- especially since 1990 (after a rough start). Did they go off the rails in the early part of the last century? They sure did. They don't have a monopoly on those types of mistakes, though. Many countries do the same, including our own.
They have great writers and a history of high culture (music and ballet)just like the West. Why, heck, the Christmas ritual of the Nutcracker ballet was first performed in Saint Petersburg and was composed by the Russian composer Tchaikovsky.
I believe they view this war as a war of attrition -- not territory expansion yet. They are consistently destroying the Ukie and NATO military. Their tactics seem to be to dig in and draw the Ukies into advancing on their positions and killing them. You know, like one of the major strategies that Genghis Kahn used to grow his empire -- as well as many other successful military groups have done as well.
The strategy sure seems to be working 'cause Zelsnsky goes out every day and begs for more equipment, brags about major offensives and accomplishments that never happen, and pulls people off the street for conscription to die as cannon fodder.
It may look like a stalemate 'cause that's pretty much what it is; they are keeping their advancement powder draw all while destroying their enemy's men and equipment. And we're drawn into quicksand -like we were in Vietnam, Iraq, Aftanastain, and Syria.
...what do you propose we do? The Republicans barely control the House and do not have the will to challenge the government as it exists.
Frankly, I'm not sure I'm smart enough to develop a fix. The ideal fix would be that someone like Trump takes over and is allowed to govern -- but that's a stretch.
In my humble opinion, it will/must get worse before it gets better. Once the masses turn their attention to what really matters (their survival and their children's survival), they MAY take action. Otherwise, we are in a "heap of trouble."
There is no winning a nuclear war. Anyone hoping so is just ignorant of the aspects of it. If it happens, the hair triggers WILL fire everywhere. That’s why it shouldn’t be talked about as an option by anyone in a government that has these weapons. That kind of talk only makes the other side more tense and more likely to make a fatal (for EVERYONE) mistake!
Nobody wins. Not Russia, the USA, China, France, The UK, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea. Every nuclear power will be attacked in an attempt to eliminate their respective arsenals.
I spent a great part of my life preparing for it, absolutely knowing I would die if it happened.
I thought we dodged this bullet in the 90s. I wish everyone would stop.
I see your point. I do not think the Russians are stupid at all. They’re a great and intelligent people. But so are most nations.
Underestimating an adversary is shear stupidity.
I’m sorry also that Russia has again becume our adversary.
That is the fault of Obama. There is no real reason we should be enemies. Remember Hillary’s “reset” button? As if Bush did anything to piss off the Russians and then the Democrats were going to fix it?
What arrogance and hutzpah! To the Democrats, every single thing is a political tool, even our country’s foreign policy!
The whole world needs a reset from them!
My friend, on that, we can agree -- 100% (or more)!
Short of a reset, we need to draw ourselves up to the big-boy/girl table with other nations and work through our differences. That would be a huge start toward that "reset."
Sadly, there are very few people in our government (and the media that supports them) who understand that concept.
I hope and pray that someone gets that "reset" idea figured out before it's too late.
Right?
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I agree - reading comprehension is everything:
“so many hundreds of our missiles appear in the air in a *** retaliatory strike ***”
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