Posted on 11/22/2024 2:00:39 PM PST by Mariner
Russia launched a new intermediate-range ballistic missile on Thursday toward Dnipro in Ukraine, an attack that officials in Kyiv initially said was an intercontinental ballistic missile.
The experimental IRBM was based on a Russian RS-26 Rubezh missile, deputy Pentagon press secretary Sabrina Singh confirmed Thursday during a briefing, without going into any other specific details. She also confirmed that the U.S. was notified "briefly" before the launch.
A U.S. official told ABC News that the United States briefed Ukraine and other close allies and partners in recent days on Russia's possible use of such a weapon in order to help them prepare. According to the official, Russia likely only possesses "a handful" of these experimental missiles.
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Z says this terrifies Russia lol
Z is a grifting faggot. Who cares what he says.
Almost a Trillion dollars can’t be accounted for by the Pentagon.
Read that again.
There hasn’t been a Trillion seconds since the Birth of Jesus.
Says the guy that whining about his new North Korean neighbors.
THIS
The Wagner Coup and Prigozhin’s march on Moscow certainly terrified Putin. “lol”.
It would only take one to ruin your day….
Yeah, maybe.
But doubtful.
They’re all dead now.
“the U.S. was notified “briefly” before the launch.”
Our launch detection satellites and radars would have spotted this suborbital launch and created a lot of alarm in the West. How quickly can our systems detect the launch and calculate the target?
Wonder what his Freeper moniker is....
My dad fought the NORKs.
He said they are tough as nails and highly skilled.
Really? Wow, I just did the math and you’re right...it doesn’t even seem close.
I was shocked :)
I’m so SICK of this comedian...who is an extremely wealthy man now.
I’m sick of so much and I’ll rest easier when Trump is in office.
Which can’t happen fast enough.
That evil little twerp WANTS WWIII!. More graft for him. He couldn’t care less about his people.
War is hell but it has been a great money maker for Zelenskyy, the American politicians who profit from under-the-table payoffs and their pals in the military weapons industry.
According to Russia all of Kharkiv, Kerson, Dunbas, and Zaphorizhia are part of Russia. So Russia has been absorbing a lot of western missiles these past few years. Now Lil Putin is making a fuss about so called western long range missiles and needs to reply with an IRBM. Even though all the missiles Putrid has been launching into a sovereign nation are of far longer range than anything Ukraine has or has used.
Never mind the North Korean troops that Russia has in the Kursk area, which are in themselves a major escalation.
You missed a few Western MIC talking points, fishy.
And note Putin's recent statement, carefully crafted to be sure, but addressing 'elites in the West', not the peoples. I think he may be 'reading the room' correctly.
Those governments of 'the West', while claiming "our democracy", increasingly resemble in the treatment of their own citizens the way the Soviets treated their own.
There is no great wellspring of support for the Ukraine adventure outside of certain capitals in 'the West'--appeals to an updated version of the Red Menace notwithstanding.
If Zelenskyy had even a few more functioning brain cells than Biden, HE would be terrified.
Considering how much weaker Ukraine is with respect to Russia, it is a miracle that it has lasted this long. Just because you hate someone, doesn’t mean that he has all vices.
Just because FR has decided it loves Putin doesn’t meant that he has nothing but virtues. Most of Russia’s current strength is a holdover from the Soviet days.
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