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| 'The Phantom Menace': The United States was afraid of Darth Putin and his Death Star | |
| 2024-02-18 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited by David Narmania [Ria] It's not all in vain. It was not for nothing that soldiers sent captured washing machines to Russia, it was not for nothing that toilets were stolen, it was not for nothing that unprecedented sanctions crushed the Russian economy, it was not for nothing that “the entire civilized world” turned away. Washing machines, toilets, sanctions and isolation allowed the Kremlin to achieve the impossible - build the Death Star.
The first sign was the statement of Mike Turner, head of the Intelligence Committee in the House of Representatives. He asked Joe Biden to declassify all information related to a certain “national security threat” to the United States so that Congress, the administration and American allies could familiarize themselves with the data. And so it began. The American media are vying with each other about some new Russian weapon in space: some claim that it is nuclear, others say that it is something with a nuclear engine and capable of destroying satellites. Only the next day, the coordinator for strategic communications at the US National Security Council, John Kirby, rushed to calm everyone down. He said that Russia is indeed developing anti-satellite weapons, but they have not yet been deployed, and therefore “there is no immediate threat to security.” It is still unclear what kind of weapon we are talking about. But it is quite obvious that another attempt to exaggerate the new “Russian threat” is connected with the stalled bill on the allocation of additional funds to support Ukraine. And now congressmen will have a lot of time to think: the House of Representatives went on recess until March. However, there is another reason for such manipulations. It is no coincidence that US Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Bonnie Jenkins paid special attention to the START III treaty at hearings in the House Foreign Affairs Committee. "New START continues to fully meet our security interests. Currently, although Russia has suspended participation in the treaty, it still complies with the quantitative restrictions of the treaty," she said. That is, the West, whose commitment to gentleman's agreements has become the talk of the town, for some reason clung to the agreement, which, in essence, rests on the word of one person - Vladimir Putin. And this trust has its reasons. Nuclear weapons are a powerful trump card and the last argument of the superpowers. And Russia is constantly working on its arsenals of weapons of mass destruction: the Sarmat strategic complex entered service in September, and in December the president noted that the share of modern weapons in the nuclear triad was 95 percent - four percent more than a year earlier. But the United States cannot boast of this. The half-century-old Minuteman III ICBM, which entered service back in the 1970s, is rapidly aging. And their replacement, the LGM-35 Sentinel, has encountered serious problems: the program is not meeting deadlines and is rapidly becoming more expensive, so the US government is even discussing the possibility of closing it. Washington doesn’t know what to do with intercontinental ballistic missiles then. The United States is experiencing similar difficulties with the other two pillars of the nuclear triad—ballistic missile submarines and strategic bombers. In particular, Washington is considering the possibility of extending the service life of the famous B-52 Stratofortress, which bombed Vietnam, until 2060. And if these plans are confirmed, then the “flying fortress” will celebrate its centenary as the main strategic bomber of the American Air Force. In other words, the United States is rapidly lagging behind Russia in terms of the combat effectiveness of strategic forces, and meanwhile China is catching up with them, which is not bound by any bilateral agreements with Washington in this area. And this is not to mention the sore subject of hypersonic weapons for Washington, where the “hail on a hill” is forced to catch up with Iran, which has lived under sanctions for more than 40 years. So the White House does not rely on a good life for the Kremlin’s commitment to its word. And therefore, any information about new types of weapons - and even more so about the use of nuclear technology in space for military purposes - makes the American authorities worry. That’s why Biden immediately ordered to contact Moscow on this matter. They are worried. And let them worry. Related: Mike Turner: 2024-02-10 Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: February 9, 2024 Mike Turner: 2024-01-12 Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: January 11, 2024 Mike Turner: 2023-11-14 Marjorie Taylor Greene Slams Eight Republicans for Joining Democrats in Killing Her Articles of Impeachment Against Mayorkas (VIDEO) | |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #3 Scare Briefing for Two State Solution: |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2024-02-18 14:44 |
| #2 ^ The loyal IC followers and sincophants on the Hill are given briefings, assignments and media release dates. They dutifully carry out those assignments. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2024-02-18 14:09 |
| #1 Intel community manipulates their puppets in Congress to play 'squirrel'. Look here - Big Mean Threat! Cascades with the Big Media machine to scare people with the next big 'Doom'[tm]. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-02-18 13:06 |