I too have always been skeptical of the Soviet morph.
We have disarmed to a very large extent.
Heck, we are taking missile subs and redesigning them for conventional weapons and Seal deployment duty.
I believe we no longer have any land based ICBMs.
We are designing conventional warheads for sub based ICBMs. A multi-zillion dollar missile carrying a conventional warhead!! Have we lost our minds?
We don’t have enough troops to peacekeep in Iraq. What if there was a real war?
And what has Russia done while we are junking capability?
Developed new ICBMs they claim are capable of penetrating any anti-missile defense we are likely to field.
And developed other offensive weapons that slip my mind at the moment. A new bomber IIRC
It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if the whole reinvention of the Soviet Union was to disarm us.
It could explain Putin’s vehement objection to anti-missiles in Poland, some of the ‘Stans.
He’s not worried about stray incomings, he is concerned about his outgoing.
It could explain Putin’s vehement objection to anti-missiles in Poland, some of the ‘Stans.
He’s not worried about stray incomings, he is concerned about his outgoing.==
The explanation is simple. ABM may serve as the great help to fend off the Russian weakered answer after NATO first strike.