Posted on 02/25/2022 1:03:42 PM PST by Covenantor
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Friday said that Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened the alliance by telling it to withdraw forces from member nations or face consequences.
This goes far beyond Ukraine," Stoltenberg warned. "This is about how Russia is actually challenging, contesting core values for our security. Then warning that NATO should withdraw all forces and infrastructure from almost half of our members.
"They said that if we don't do that, if we don't meet their demands, there will be what they call ‘military-technical consequences,'" he added.
The leader of the 30-member alliance said that in response to these threats NATO has for the first time deployed its Response Force for collective security.
Stoltenberg said the U.S., U.K., France and Germany are among the NATO nations to have deployed forces and lead elements to assist the Response Force.
"We have to take this seriously," he said....
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The thing about hypersonic vehicles is that, while they orbit the Earth at hypersonic velocities - which makes them exceedingly hot objects, and thus detectable at infrared wavelengths by satellite - once they re-enter the atmosphere, their “glide” (terminal) phase is no different than an ICBM - which makes them just as vulnerable a target.
See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTEhG8zzftQ at the 11:30 mark.
That might be his thinking but that will never happen. Poland is in NATO, any more into Poland and NATO goes to war. Dido the Baltic states that are in NATO. The Ukraine is not in NATO for a very good reason. The Ukraine is none of our business.
Your argument presupposes that Vladimir Putin is still in possession of a rational mind. I have my doubts.
I reject the George W Bush notion of preemptive wars. If Russia invades Poland, then we go to wars. Dido any other NATO nation. Ukraine is not in NATO and it is none of our business.
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