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Posted on 02/06/2025 1:20:48 PM PST by marcusmaximus
A terror weapon becomes less terrifying when it doesn’t work.
After warning U.S. officials of its intention to launch, Russia lobbed a mysterious new ballistic missile—initially mistaken for a nuclear-capable ICBM—at the city of Dnipro in eastern Ukraine on the morning of Nov. 21, damaging buildings and injuring dozens of people.
The mystery weapon turned out to be a variant of Russia’s RS-26, a 40-ton, solid-fueled missile with six independent reentry vehicles. Its name, Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin announced shortly after the strike, is “Oreshnik.” That’s Russian for “hazelnut tree.”
Three months later on Thursday morning, the Russians reportedly launched another Oreshnik—this one apparently targeting Kyiv. Air raid sirens wailed. City residents scrambled for shelter. But then … nothing. No scream of incoming reentry vehicles. No thunderous impacts as the non-explosive vehicles slammed into the ground.
According to Kirill Sazonov, a Ukrainian war correspondent, the Oreshnik “did not fly far.” It reportedly malfunctioned and exploded—on Russian soil.
Everyone knew an attack might be coming. A week after the first Oreshnik strike, Putin threatened to fire additional Oreshniks—and specifically warned he’d target “decision-making centers” in Kyiv, where Ukrainian Pres. Volodymyr Zelensky, top officials and commanders and their staffs work.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
"Ronald Reagan spent thirty years explaining that to not be pro-American was to be objectively pro-Soviet.
To people like Indira Gandhi, so not idiots."
Good kitty-post! That assertion, “Opposition to Zelensky is pro Putin” is so stupid it gave me bird flu.
Wrong.
There are no good guys in this and being opposed to one evil does not by default mean acceptance of the other.
I read the threads. I avoid posting to avoid the argument time sink. If you feel the way you do about my comment, don’t post to me anymore and remove me from your VK ping list. I appreciate pings for anti Trumpers and such, but some of us are not as black and white on foreign policy and I don’t appreciate Freepers getting zotted for expressing such.
The idiocy here is getting bad..
We need more kitties.
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If anyone is wondering, this story is a hoax.
No evidence, the only source a ukrainian war correspondant.
America First.
Ukraine isn’t in there anywhere.
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You have nothing worthwhile to say, you “think” (applied to you, that term is used very loosely) it’s spam, and you make sure the article that you don’t like gets seen over and over and over.
That missile sure blowed up good, didn’t it?
"remove me from your VK"
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I asked you to stop posting to me. Are you going to be a stalker now as well?
Lonestar is gone. Whatever.
What I don’t understand is why Marcus is still here trolling us everyday.
i wouldn’t disagree with your very concise and narrow definition….
and yet anyone who posts an article that provides insight into the losses that Russia has incurred in its invasion is immediately attacked as a zeeper and propagandist. I dislike the shoot the messenger attitude. I want to see all the news reports, positive or negative, regardless of bias or perceived bias. And the attacks reflect poorly on freedom of thought and speech supporters.
He’s not gone (was a VK ping, not a ZOT ping)..
We were hoping that he could see the errors of painting us all with a huge, wide brush.
Thanks.
Hopefully when Trump ends this war Biden is responsible for, all the silly back and forth on Zelensky vs. Putin will end.
Some of the “elders” here really surprise me with their shortsightedness sometimes.
And, for some reason, can’t own up to their own mistakes.
I hope so too.
That's not the issue.
The issue is the the Direction NASA is going.
After learning from those successes, NASA viciously mandated DEI fealty and Mission failure.
A gesture to “peace”, give the ex-Soviet rocket guys a way to make a living.
Yea, not really, those "Soviet rocket guys" were the ones that designed and built the RD-180, the world's best and 10 years post Soviet, heavy lift rocket engine (other than Musk's recent Methane engines).
NASA had to be nice to those Russian guys, or no fly.
NASA eventually convinced the Russians to quit supplying them engines, and have continued their decline through the present day.
Exactly!!!
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Does he realize he’s bumping, too ?? 😂😂
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