Russia Answers Biden
MAD. It’s not just a magazine, but for decades has been the cornerstone of nuclear policy. Mutually Assured Destruction – you hit us, we will hit you back, and however hard you hit us, we will hit you hard enough that at the end of it we won’t be leveling targets, we will be bouncing the rubble from where the targets used to be. As long as that retaliation is probable, no idiot wants to be the one who provokes it, right?
One of the key weapons in the scenario are MIRV missiles – Multiple Independently targeted Re-entry Vehicles, multiple individually and discretely targeted warheads. One missile, a dozen warheads, some a few aimed here, a few there, some decoys to fool the anti-missile defenses – very clever, and very hard to deal with. Only way to make they scarier? Make them faster and harder to hit. We have been basking in the glory of Western anti-missile defenses for years – Patriots, Iron Dome, the rest – look at Iran’s last strike on Israel; between aircraft and ground based defenses Iran landed about 1% of what they launched. How will they do against hypersonic missiles traveling ten times the speed of sound? No one really knows.
Now, Putin drew a line in the sand and warned Western allies of Ukraine not to cooperate in strikes in Russia. Up till a week ago, we placed limits on what Ukraine could, and could not, do with what we gave them. Then Biden authorized Ukraine leader Zelensky to fire ATACMS (Army Tactical Missile System) missiles into Russia. Since then, we have been waiting to see what Putin would do. Now we know.
The new ballistic missile fired by Russia struck a military-industrial facility in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro, but its real mission was delivering a deadly new message to NATO.
Hours after Thursday’s strike touched off a debate over whether the Ukrainian plant was hit by an intercontinental ballistic missile, President Vladimir Putin made a rare and surprise appearance on Russian television to clear up the mystery.
He described it as a new, intermediate-range ballistic missile that raced to its target at 10 times the speed of sound.
“Modern air defense systems that exist in the world and anti-missile defenses created by the Americans in Europe can’t intercept such missiles,” Putin declared in an icy and menacing tone. AP
Videos of Thursday’s Russian strike showed the multiple warheads falling at different angles on the target, and each warhead would need to be defeated with an anti-missile rocket, a daunting prospect even for the best air defense systems.
And while the warheads dropped on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Thursday were not nuclear, their use in conventional combat operations is certain to raise new uncertainty in a world already on edge. CNN
It must be said that Russia notified all concerned before the missile launched, and clarified that it was non-nuclear, a rarity. Most MIRV missiles are nuclear, and seen as the most significant of both targets and weapons. Think of it like this – if you are attacked, you have more retaliation launched per missile with MIRVs, but also, such launching sites are prime targets – much easier to hit a single launch site that multiple warheads.Despite that, this is the first time a MIRV missile has been used in combat, much less a hypersonic MIRV.
MIRV technology has been around for decades, but it is surprising how widespread it has become.
It is not only Russia and the United States that have MIRV technology. China has it on its intercontinental ballistic missiles, according to the Center for Arms Control and Non-proliferation, and the United Kingdom and France, along with Russia and the US, have long had MIRV technology on their submarine-launched ballistic missiles.
And there are new players in the MIRV game, too. Pakistan reportedly tested a missile with multiple warheads in 2017, and earlier this year India said it had successfully tested a MIRVed ICBM. CNN
And while we are at it, the Norks are reputedly working on it too.
Sounds a lot like Mr. Biden has opened up Pandora’s box, doesn’t it?
“Never underestimate Jor Biden’s ability to fuck things up.” – B. Hussein 0bama
And if anyone would know about that, it would be him.
And let’s be honest.. At this point, decisions like this are coming from Zero, not the potato in the WH (or more accurately on the Delaware beach)
This is Putins way of saying FJB, but with a Russian accent. I hope all involved in letting this get to this point enjoy their designer neckties, while standing around on large blocks of ice.
As has been said elsewhere, if Pedo Joe is too mentally debilitated to run for a second Presidential term, then why is he being allowed to set wartime foreign policy?
It shows that this administration is all in on destroying the world and ruling over the ashes.
Keep in mind that the only other option is Harris.
With what, 8 weeks to go Joe(‘s handlers) pulls a stunt like this and peels the lid way off an already rancid can of worms… amazing work. FJB.
No sounds like a 2 year old throwing the tv remote at the TV cause you spanked him for hitting his sister and breaking her toys in her room.
Fk Russia, don’t make Ukraine fight with one hand tied to their balls (worked so well for us) and this shit stops there or in Paris again…I hope Z parks a another cessina in red square, this time packed full of RDX.
The Ukraine War was always going to be a lost cause so long as Putin was willing to keep sending men and resources into the meat grinder. A defensive war with the lack of capabilities of Ukraine to effect enemy logistics the idea was that maybe it would get too costly for Putin and Russia and then he would be convinced by his advisors to withdraw. The Western economic sanctions would also punish Russia and the average Russian would protest and demand a withdraw. The international community would be pressed into service to isolate Russia.
Instead he simply killed everyone who broke ranks with him in the war by throwing them off of a building or out a window. A few he murdered direct and their entire families with them. Some he blew up with car bombs and other false flag attacks. Now everyone is too terrified to say a word.
Protests went nowhere and Russians tend to bear scarcity with patience, as it is still remembered. The economic sanctions of not having a Big Mac and a coke was simply ineffectual. Decreasing the price of oil might have worked, just as it did under Reagen, but this was the exact opposite of the goals of the Biden administration that wanted to increase the price of oil to force a switch to non oil based fuels. Now that Trump is president the price of oil will be forced downwards, SA indicated support for that once Biden leaves office as well.
Not everyone in the international community was on board with isolating Russia and those that oppose the US agenda have rallied around them. China feeds them money and resources, Iran sends weapons and the NORKs send weapons and men. The failure to build an international coalition is another failure that falls squarely on the Biden administration. In short after nearly three years of Biden sanctioned war, there has been no success, only lots of dead and stalemate.
Biden is getting desperate hence allowing the attacks. They will not work.