Posted on 06/04/2025 11:56:07 AM PDT by Twotone
~Here's a cheery headline from the Russian press:
Markov: an attack on Russia's strategic aviation is grounds for the use of nuclear weapons.
That would be Sergey Markov, former advisor to Tsar Vlad, who admittedly is somewhat partial to nuke-rattling: in the early stages of the Ukraine war, he threatened to nuke the UK, for what reason I forget - the exciting new Islamic blasphemy laws? the paedo rape gangs?
This time, however, Mr Markov was responding to the weekend's Ukrainian drone strike deep inside Russia. By "deep", I mean Siberia. Which supposedly took out forty of Putin's 120 strategic bombers using drones smuggled into the country via trucks which then fanned out and parked within range of various air bases.
Which is brilliant and innovative, in the sense that Castro blowing up a third of the USAF during the Cuban missile-crisis negotiations would have been. Right now, the only thing standing between the planet and the Third World War is Vladimir Putin's forbearance. And, as all the smart people assured us in the spring of 2022, the Russian not-so-strongman was "dying" (Christopher Steele, sole proprietor of Dossiers R Us) or dead, either of which condition can make one's nuclear-war judgment a little erratic. Headline from the UK Daily Mirror, almost exactly three years ago:
Vladimir Putin may already be dead with body double taking his place, MI6 chiefs claim
That headline is 100 per cent accurate if you remove the words "Vladimir" and "Putin" and replace them with "Joe" and "Biden" respectively. Incidentally, analyse each nation's advances in body-double technology by comparing "Biden"'s ability to host a G7 with "Putin"'s ability to host a BRICS summit.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
“This war is a disguised massive storewide-clearance sale of a dying country’s remaining human capital.”
The raison d’etre for the “war”?
Money.... everything else is BS for the masses.
War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing.
SAY IT AGAIN!
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