Posted on 11/21/2024 5:03:28 AM PST by marcusmaximus
In a significant escalation of the ongoing war, Russia launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the RS-26 "Rubezh," at the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. The attack, carried out from Astrakhan in southern Russia at 5 a.m. local time, marks the first known use of an ICBM in the conflict, signalling a chilling warning to NATO and Ukraine alike.
The RS-26 "Rubezh" is a mobile-ground ballistic missile system derived from the RS-24 "Yars," itself a modernized version of the older Soviet Topol-M system. First tested in 2012, the RS-26 is essentially a shorter version of the RS-24 with one fewer stage. With a range of 5,000–6,000 kilometers, the RS-26 has the capability to target Europe, the U.S., and even the Asia-Pacific region.
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Designed primarily to deliver nuclear warheads, the RS-26 carries a massive payload of 1.5 tons, making it a formidable weapon even with conventional warheads. The missile follows a high ballistic trajectory, complicating interception and heightening its threat level.
The RS-26 is considered a modern iteration of the Soviet RSD-10 "Pioneer" missile, which was dismantled under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in the 1990s. However, Russia resumed production of these missiles under President Putin, a move seen as a violation of the now-defunct treaty.
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Isn’t this exactly what you and ZeeperBrandonHarris Langley have been praying for?
Yes it is an ICBM of Nuclear Strike Capability.
This is not good.
For those too dumb to read the signals, they are saying: Nukes are Next.
Is that what you want? Dniepro is surely unhappy to be the target but relieved the payload was not nuclear.
Tell your Langley Brandon Harris Junta to get to the peace negotiations table today.
So what have our country’s “leaders” said about all of these pathetic developments? Oh, wait! They are on vacay: biden wandering around the Amazon jungle and kamala wandering around Hawaii. They are apparently too occupied with personal fun to be concerned about this sort of thing. Such feckless, arrogant display of incompetence and stupidity.
Your Putin is in failing health and afraid of President Trump’s return to office.
Russia and Ukraine should make lasting peace and concentrate their forces on the real enemy, the scumbag woke EuroTrash in England, Belgium and France. /spit
Tell Putin to stop playing with ICBMs.
It may be classified as an intercontinental ballistic missile, but in this case it is barely inter-regional. heh
I make jokes while rome burns
China is the real enemy, Einstein.
The US government is the enemy of Americans, and a threat to world stability for 60 more days.
I think they’re afraid of being exposed to nuclear fallout- that’s why they’re so far away.
"I said yesterday it would be dangerous to back Putin into a corner. You need to understand Russian culture and how they view their leaders to understand he will not go down without a fight and would be willing to escalate to the point of no return.""you are absolutely correct,not to mention they have the most nuclear weapons in the world and their army is capable of putting 3.5 million soldiers into the field."
"A million and a half of those soldiers, most of whom are full time professionals with huge special forces battalions are based on the long Chinese Border. The Russians especially Putin fears China more than he does the west because he knows Xi is just like him and given the chance would not hesitate to invade those areas of Russia which will not be devasted by a nuclear war in the event it happens in Europe. It is one of the reason why the Russian Troops have been so poor. The best troops are elsewhere."
Is this true?
Tell him yourself, princess.
⚡️- Every region and oblast in Ukraine under threat. ICBM launch in Russia reported. pic.twitter.com/fezRpsZApt— Zlatti71 (@Zlatti_71) November 21, 2024
This is cope. Trump's return to the White House is the best chance we have of ending Biden's blank check foreign aid policy to Ukraine. Harris was all for it. J.D. Vance was probably the most vocal opponent of aid to Ukraine in the Senate too.
An ICBM is a spectacularly expensive way to deliver nonnuclear ordinance. So, this is clearly a message rather than a change in tactics. Russia has screwed themselves as far as messaging goes by shouting wolf so many times that they’ve lost any deterrent value such messaging might have. (This is similar to Obama’s red lines in the sand that turned out to be nothing burgers.) Russia has backed themselves into a messaging corner. But a radical response before Trump takes over is doubling the danger without achieving much. The Biden administration can do whatever it wishes in response without any fear of blowback. They aren’t running again, and the man himself is just past the period at the end of the last sentence of his career. What to do, what to do...
🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- ICBM still reported airborne. All of Ukraine is still under air raid alert.— Zlatti71 (@Zlatti_71) November 21, 2024
"SLAVA UKRAINI!"
"LONG LIVE ZELVIS & FJB!"
the real enemy are democrats and progressives
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