Putin reminds me of Billy Jack where he tells the hooligan: “I am going to put my left foot in your right ear, and there is not a damn thing you can do about it”.
Lol
I remember the Billy Jack movies at the local drive-in back in the 70s.
Factoids:
1) About 80% of the US nuclear warhead inventory are on submarines. It’s about 40% for the Russians.
2) The US has about 44 interceptors mission tasked to kill incoming ballistic missions. Assessed effectiveness... 50%. So at most you can hit 22 incoming warheads.
3) Russian boomer submarines number 11. Each sub has 16 missiles aboard and each missile MIRVs to 6 warheads. Total missiles in the fleet — 176. X6 for warheads 1056.
Of which 44 might be intercepted.
So talk of the US having nothing to stop a newly revealed hypersonic IRBM is a bit silly. We also can’t stop more than 5% of current, non hypersonic missiles.
And that’s just the first wave from submarines. Their ICBMs and air-launched weapons, that likely will be hypersonic, come later.
Our coastal proximity to our ICBM fields, though as far as we could get them, is a fundamental geographical Russian advantage. Their weapons are on subs, like ours, but their ICBMs are not only very far from any coasts, they are also mobile.
And they have so much surface area their oil will run out long after ours.
Wrong enemy to have. We will be begging for that oil someday.
“Putin reminds me of Billy Jack where he tells the hooligan”
Billy Jack was a good guy, Putin a murderous KGB thug.