This message on national security brought to you by the letter O and the number 16 trillion
Posted on 10/20/2012 10:10:26 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
President Vladimir Putin took a leading role in the latest tests of Russia's strategic nuclear arsenal, the most comprehensive since the 1991 Soviet collapse, the Kremlin said on Saturday.
The exercises, held mostly on Friday, featured prominently in news reports on state television which seemed aimed to show Russians and the world that Putin is the hands-on chief of a resurgent power.
Tests involving command systems and all three components of the nuclear "triad" - land and sea-launched long-range nuclear missiles and strategic bombers - were conducted "under the personal leadership of Vladimir Putin", the Kremlin said.
An RS-12M Topol Intercontinental Ballistic Missile was launched from the Plesetsk site in northern Russia, and a submarine test-launched another ICBM from the Sea of Okhotsk, the Defence Ministry said.
Long-range Tu-95 and Tu-160 bombers fired four guided missiles that hit their targets on a testing range in the northwestern Komi region, it said.
"Exercises of the strategic nuclear forces were conducted on such a scale for the first time in the modern history of Russia," the Kremlin statement said.
"Vladimir Putin gave a high evaluation to the combat units and crews and the work of the Armed Forces General Staff, which fulfilled the tasks before them and affirmed the reliability and effectiveness of Russia's nuclear forces."
The exercises included tests of communications systems and "new algorithms" for command and control, it said.
Russia says it is modernizing a nuclear arsenal that was largely created during the Cold War and will continue to use nuclear weapons as a key deterrent.
In the 2010 New START treaty, Russia and the United States set lower numerical ceilings on the weapons tested in the exercise.
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Win or lose, after the election, barky will have “more flexibility” in gutting the US nuclear arsenal.
Someone should take that picture on the front of Drudge and photoshop that missile coming out of Putin’s pants.
Putin has the Marxist’s number. 1-800-WEAKZERO.
Vote him out!
This message on national security brought to you by the letter O and the number 16 trillion
Not unexpected out of the man who regarded the worst tragedy of the twentieth century to be the collapse of the USSR. (Not WWII or any real tragedy such as that.)
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Nobody would want to conquer Russia now. It’s not worth conquering, it is a trashed land.
Always a good reminder of the depths BHO sinks to ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py8BF0hHPnc
President Obama CAUGHT! Assures Medvedev of flexibility Nuclear missile defense after election
Mar 26, 2012
video run length = 00:00:33 seconds
(from Wikipedia:) In 2009 and 2010, the administration of Barack Obama declared policies that would invalidate the Bush-era policy for use of nuclear weapons and its motions to develop new ones. First, in a prominent 2009 speech, U.S. president Barack Obama outlined a goal of "a world without nuclear weapons".[31] To that goal, U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a new START treaty on April 8, 2010 to reduce the number of active nuclear weapons from 2,200 to 1,550.[32][33] That same week Obama also revised U.S. policy on the use of nuclear weapons in a Nuclear Posture Review required of all presidents, declaring for the 1st time that the U.S. would not use nuclear weapons against nonnuclear, NPT-compliant states. The policy also renounces development of any new nuclear weapons.[34]
Since this treaty was made, BHO announced in 2012 that he wants to further reduce the number of U.S. nuclear warheads to 500.
Comrade obama has 65 surrender days till Christmas.
“Let’s get flexible, flexible
Let’s get animal, animal,
I wanna get animal, let’s get into animal
Let me hear your body talk,
Your body talk, let me hear your body talk”
Is Putin married????????????
Is Putin married?....Yes. His wife stated in a magazine article he was a vampire, not a nice person to be around.
“Since this treaty was made, BHO announced in 2012 that he wants to further reduce the number of U.S. nuclear warheads to 500.”
Obama is racing us to “nuclear parity” with China and apparently has forgotten (or doesn’t understand) that safety/stability lies in redundancy across the triad of land- sea- and air-based missiles. It’s far easier to imagine a crippling first strike against a force of 500 warheads than 5,000 especially when you consider that many of these are on mutliple-warhead weapons, thereby further reducing the actual number of targets that need to be hit. Soviet ABM capabilities continue to improve, making it plausible to imagine them thinking they could intercept any residual missiles not destroyed in a first strike. Their confidence in such a scenario by definition must be much greater when we only have 500 warheads than when we had ten times that number.
In Russian, “Reset” means “Launch”.
The economy of Russia is the ninth largest economy in the world by nominal value and the sixth largest by purchasing power parity (PPP).[1] Russian economy is today considered by IMF and World Bank a developing one. Russia has an abundance of natural gas, oil, coal, and precious metals. Russia has undergone significant changes since the collapse of the Soviet Union, moving from a centrally planned economy to a more market-based and globally integrated economy. Economic reforms in the 1990s privatized many sectors of the industry and agriculture, with notable exceptions in the energy and defense-related sectors. Nonetheless, the rapid privatization process, including a much criticized “loans-for-shares” scheme that turned over major state-owned firms to politically connected “oligarchs”, has left equity ownership highly concentrated. As of 2011, Russia’s capital, Moscow, now has the highest billionaire population of any city in the world.[15][16]
In late 2008 and early 2009, Russia experienced the first recession after 10 years of experiencing a rising economy, until the stable growth resumed in late 2009 and 2010. Despite the deep but brief recession, the economy has not been as seriously affected by the global financial crisis, largely because of the integration of short-term macroeconomic policies that helped the economy survive.[citation needed]
In 2011 Russia’s gross domestic product[17] grew by 4.2 percent, the world’s third highest growth rate among leading economies. The government expects it to grow 3.7 percent in 2012. “Following a 4.2 percent growth in 2011, we think the slowdown will lead to GDP growth of about 3.5 percent for the full year,” S&P Chief Economist for Europe Jean-Michel Six said in a statement.[18] Russian GDP growth for the first half of 2012 was 4.4%.[19] It slowed at 4% in the month of August.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Russia
The Clinton/Obama foreign policy on security is the same as their domestic policy - strength through disarmament. Taking the guns out of the hands of the good guys only leaves the bad guys armed, but they cannot comprehend that. These elites really think they’ll be spared at the conquest. They need to check their history.
The goal isn’t stability. It’s undoing the “imperialism” of the Pax Americana.
A Russian launch order will take out major cities in the U.S. populated by liberals. This may sound cruel but if the rooskies take out all the blue states then we can form a new (conservative) government, beat the crap out of them and the world will be right once again. I don’t see a down side since another civil war is inevitable one of these days anyway. The major problem is the nuclear devastation and I live in a REAL blue state - but I don’t see anyone wanting to hit the Atlantic City or Cumberland County area.
I’d put a sarc tag on this but I find some truth here.
Meanwhile, Obama and his thugs, as well as his shills online, wants the US to disarm.
Thanks My Favorite Headache.
He is KGB.
That is a face that a prisoner anywhere in the Gulag might have seen on any given nightly interrogation. Typical.
It is a commie face for certain. How much blood of his countrymen is on his hands, I wonder?
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