ZEEPER FOLLIES PINGLIST!(((PING!)))
Posted on 11/22/2024 12:29:09 PM PST by marcusmaximus
Vladimir Putin's hypersonic missile carried a simple message to the West over Ukraine: back off, and if you don't, Russia reserves the right to hit U.S. and British military facilities.
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"Putin is saying to the West stop - halt - back off," Sergei Markov, a former Kremlin adviser, told Reuters.
"The signal Putin is sending to the world is that we consider these strikes as the direct entry of the United States and Britain into a war against Russia," he said. "But we are not responding with all our might right now because these strikes against Russia will not change the outcome of the war."
A Russian source who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the situation said Putin had hinted that he wanted to steer clear of escalation, though the odds of Russia using nuclear weapons remained pretty high.
The source did not clarify whether he was talking about tactical battlefield weapons or long-range nuclear missiles.
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BTW, you really are obsessed with hating relatively less dangerous people, aren’t you?
“If it has to slow to deploy the 36 warheads (seems likely), that could be an Achilles heel”
All MIRVs are released in outer space. And their shape is extremely aerodynamic.
The big question is if these MIRVs have terminal guidance and can maneuver. At 8,000mph at impact, it’s likely nothing is left of them and that question will have to be answered another way.
My guess is the US has space based radar and IR tracking that could answer the question.
ZEEPER FOLLIES PINGLIST!(((PING!)))
A .300 Weatherby bullet travels around 1,800mph.
Even a 100lb steel cone at 8,000mph will do great damage. And penetrate a lot of concrete. And start fires due to great heat.
36 of them is like the worlds baddest shotgun.
I’m thinking Ukraine will back off as a “sign of goodwill”.
Yes, but appeasement of GloboHomoPedoNazi is the more likely route to such an end.
No one is trying to appease you.
BTW, you really are obsessed with diverting attention from dangerous people, aren’t you?
Unlike you, I do not demand appeasement.
Dems are trying to dump a world war into Trumps lap.
Of course you do. You think everyone should give into Russia. In other words, appeasement.
On November 19, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree approving the Foundations of State Policy in the Field of Nuclear Deterrence, the country’s updated nuclear doctrine.
The fundamental principle of the doctrine is that the use of nuclear weapons is a measure of last resort to protect the country’s sovereignty.
The emergence of new military threats and risks prompted Russia to clarify the conditions for the use of nuclear weapons. In particular, the amended doctrine expands the range of countries and military alliances subject to nuclear deterrence, as well as the list of military threats that such deterrence is designed to counter.
In addition, the document states that Russia will now view any attack by a non-nuclear country supported by a nuclear power as a joint attack. Moscow also reserves the right to consider a nuclear response to a conventional weapons attack threatening its sovereignty, a large-scale launch of enemy aircraft, missiles, and drones targeting Russian territory, their crossing of the Russian border, and an attack on its ally Belarus.
Pooty does not like those long range missiles into Rusha.
Wbo cares?
Trump says STOP!
Or we take out his oil industry delivery systems, and sink all of his tankers.Overnight.
It will be a full stop.
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