NATO clowns dreaming of a war on Russia would have to come up with an ironclad system to knock out these Iskanders. – And then there’s the Sukhoi T-50 PAK FA. The Iskander can reach targets deep inside Europe. Translation: an ultimate lethal weapon against airfields or logistic infrastructure. – The Russian Iskander missile travels at Mach 7 – with a range of 400km, carrying a 700kg warhead of several varieties, and with a circular error probability of around five meters. Russia, for its part, is already focusing on the state of the art S-500 – which essentially makes the Patriot anti-missile system look like a V-2 from WWII. – The S-400 and S-500 double trouble Moscow has agreed to sell the S-400 surface-to-air missile system to China the bottom line is this will make Beijing impermeable to US air power, ICBMs and cruise missiles. – Russian ICBMs armed with MIRVs travel at about 18 Mach that is way faster than anything in the US arsenal. A few studies at least hint at the obvious glaring US strategic weakness. Washington/Wall Street elites are now deep into nuclear war paranoia. Then examine the strategic nuclear scenario, and it’s a totally different story. Take the compounded GDP of US, Germany, France and England and compare it to Russia it’s a victory by a landslide. It’s pointless to compare the US and Russia strategic nuclear capabilities based on numbers, but not on quality. Now for the “threat” of nuclear war in Europe – bogus or otherwise. At least there’s a countercurrent strands of informed Americans are wondering why the US should be paying for Europe’s defense when European GDP is larger than the US’s. Washington has just announced that it will be pre-positioning more military vehicles in Europe, to be used in exercises or “potential military operations.” This is perfectly in tune with the relentless US “think tank-land” spin that NATO and the US will be “forced” to balance their commitment to security in Eastern Europe against potential Russian “aggression.”Īs Ukraine, the Baltic States and Poland persist in compounded hysteria about such “aggression,” the option of a post-MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) US-Russia nuclear war is now – casually – back on the discussion table. This means NATO – essentially the US – planted right on Russia’s western border. Were Ukraine to become a NATO member in – albeit remote – future, the shatter belt buffer zone would disappear. Some of you may be familiar with the concept of “shatter belt” – territories and peoples that historically have been squeezed between the Germanic Eagle and the Russian Bear.Īs we stand, the whole shatter belt – apart from Ukraine and Belarus – has become NATO members.
The US-propelled vassal Petro Poroshenko, currently starring in the oligarch dance in Ukraine this week advanced the proposition that Ukrainians in the near future, after his “reforms”, will be asked to vote on whether to join NATO. Are the US, NATO and Russia on a mad spiral leading to war in Europe? Is it inevitable? Far from it.
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