Posted on 10/20/2022 10:03:50 AM PDT by jacknhoo
With the prospect of a Russian tactical nuclear strike in Ukraine on everyone’s mind, the United States military and several NATO allies are coming together for one of the largest nuclear exercises in Europe.
Steadfast Noon 22 brings together 14 NATO allies and partners with over 60 aircraft, including nuclear-capable fourth- and fifth-generation fighter jets and B-52 Stratofortress strategic bombers.
Nuclear Drills for NATO: Steadfast Noon 22 More than 60 aircraft, including F-15E Strike Eagle, F-16 Fighting Falcon, F-35 Lighting II fighter jets, and B-52 Stratofortress strategic bombers, will test the transatlantic alliance’s nuclear deterrence. However, the aircraft won’t be using any live nuclear munitions.
Steadfast Noon is to be an annual exercise and isn’t taking place as a response to the Russian aggression in Ukraine or the repeated Russian threats of a nuclear strike against the Ukrainian forces.
“This exercise helps ensure that the Alliance’s nuclear deterrent remains safe, secure and effective,” NATO Spokesperson Oana Lungescu said in a press release.
NATO insists that the exercise is part of the transatlantic alliance’s routine training program and it is not linked to any world events in any way.
In its press release that announced the start of the exercise, NATO highlighted the transatlantic alliance’s new strategic concept that was adopted by the leader of the NATO countries during the summit in Madrid in June.
NATO highlights that Steadfast Noon 22 is part of the strategic concept that stresses that “the fundamental purpose of NATO’s nuclear capability is to preserve peace, prevent coercion and deter aggression.”
Moreover, the transatlantic alliance states that “as long as nuclear weapons exist, NATO will remain a nuclear alliance. NATO’s goal is a safer world for all; we seek to create the security environment for a world without nuclear weapons.”
Steadfast Noon 22 is taking place between October 17 till the end of the month. NATO countries rotate host duties for the exercise every year; this year, it is the turn of Belgium to host Steadfast Noon.
The Nuclear Specter Over Europe The failures of the Russian military in Ukraine have brought the specter of nuclear warfare to the European continent. As the country with the largest nuclear arsenal (more than 6,000 nuclear warheads), Russia has repeatedly threatened to deploy some of its nuclear munitions against Ukraine.
Although Russian President Vladimir Putin and other senior Russian officials have publicly set some red lines that could trigger a nuclear strike, such as attacks on Russian territory, for example, they have not delivered on their threats, at least so far.
If a nuclear strike did indeed happen, a highly likely scenario is that the Russian military would launch a tactical nuclear munition somewhere in Ukraine where the Ukrainian forces are the most threatening in order to make it seem that the attack was purely on a military target.
As the war continues to go progressively bad for the Russian forces and as the Ukrainian military continues to liberate large swaths of territory and edges closer to Crimea, which has been annexed by the Russians since 2014, the threat of a Russian nuclear strike will hover on everyone’s mind.
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Don’t believe anything until the government officially denies it.
The evil propaganda of the evil Democrats falsely and monstrously claimed that America-loving patriot REPUBLICAN President Donald Trump would trigger nuclear war. They knew they were lying, but the stupid among us believed their lies.
Always remember this:
And therein lies the rub. You can rest assured that elitist war mongers will locate to the underground bunkers in DC stocked with the finest food fit to eat, wine and Cuban cigars, while Joe 6 pack gets vaporized.
World War IV gonna be so much fun
✝️🙏🛐
On the lighter brighter side, Suburban bimbos might see their kids fried or radiated but don’t have to read ‘tweets’ from President Trump...
I guess in bimbo land that’s ‘worth it’...
Prayers these women wake up before their stupid choices get us killed.
Fake news.
What does that mean Reagan never fired a shot?
He basically killed them off economically.
He won the Cold War by outspending the Soviets, aware that communism cannot compete with capitalism. The Soviets capitulated.
what a predicament!
Used to be you could hide out in Sweden when the balloon went up. Now, Sweden’s joined NATO.
What place is left? How about Afghanistan? They won’t fight.
Better Talibon than your life is gone!
How about Iraq? They believe in peace at any cost.
Better ISIL than you’re still!
Rule Putinica. Putinica rule the waves.
The cowardly democratic people of the world will accept being slaves.
America. Land of the freaks. Home of the slaves.
Aside from invading Grenada I remember the 80s as an extremely violent period and Reagan was challenging the Russians everywhere, it was the decade of the American mercenary and Special Ops men around the globe and America supplying arms around the world and challenging and threatening Russia around the world.
Reagan’s muscular and aggressive posture avoided major loss of American troops in major combat (although we averaged about 2200 peacetime military deaths a year during that period) but while his voice was soft, his treatment of Russia was hard.
Trump was similar in his friendly tone towards Russia while militarily building and positioning a war machine against them.
right on mikey
I was going over radiac readings with my platoon in Germany. When a came to the reading that death would be inevitable, I said that’s when we’ll be invincible. The sons of bitches can’t kill us because we’re already dead. Only, we’ll have 3 to 6 months to avenge our own deaths. It was like a high school football rally. It was a bonding moment. I was so proud to be with them.
Sweden and Finland have not yet been accepted into NATO but predictions are that they will be in early 2023.
Guess that means Trump is a Biden supporter, according to current FReeperLogic.
Their “training for nuclear war” consists of leaving civilians outside as sitting ducks.
Total joke.
You shouldn’t quote V.I. Lenin about WWI without attribution.
Regarding WWII, we (the U.S.) did not view the people of Germany or Japan as our enemy; so, we weren’t vindictive like France, England and Italy were after WWI.
You, on the other hand, took half of Poland, and East Prussia from Germany, and big chunks of other defeated nations, took entire factories and many other things, and then subjugated all the places you occupied.
“The Russians made provisions during the cold war to shelter their entire population with appropriate provisioning.”
LOL, the Soviets couldn’t provide “appropriate provisioning” to their entire population even under normal peacetime circumstances.
Someone might kill us? Oh no, better preemptively capitulate. That’s the American way!
Are they training to what? I mean, recognize that bright flash and call yourself dead?
Have you ever decoded and validated a launch message? Messages are not broadcast in the clear.
What’s the process if the Command Post loses radios?
What’s the process if the aircraft voice encryption is inop?
What’s the process if the Pentagon loses satellite communications?
What’s the message format for vertical dispersal?
What’s the process if the PAL code doesn’t work?
Who has authority to upload nukes?
What would happen if an aircrew launches on an invalid message?
How are recall messages validated?
These exercises will validate the entire chain of command from the Pentagon all the way to the maintenance crews, the munitions crews and the aircrews.
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