Posted on 03/31/2018 7:52:33 PM PDT by Michael van der Galien
According to the British newspaper the Daily Express, Russia's president Vladimir Putin has escalated his war of words against the West yesterday into "war games." "In a show of force," the newspapers continues, "the Russian president demonstrated his fearsome new Sarmat missile."
Fearsome it is, indeed. The missile travels at 20 times the speed of sound and can carry up to 12 nuclear warheads f0r 6,000 miles. Because of this, NATO has dubbed the missile "Satan 2."
The successful test launch is shown in what the Daily Express calls an "Easter message" from the Kremlin. In the footage, the Satan 2 emerges from an underground silo, then hovers shortly above the ground, only to speed away in a cloud of smoke.
According to Putin, the newly developed missile can hit any target in the world. "No defense systems will be able to withstand it," he said during his yearly state-of-the-nation speech earlier in March in what was clearly a threat (or at least a warning) to the West.
Shortly after the article about the missile test was published by the Daily Express, the Russian embassy in London responded to it. The one thing they focused on? The part about the video being an "Easter message." Since the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates Easter later than Catholics and Protestants do, that is not correct, the embassy says.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Lucky for us we have layzerrrs huh?
They celebrate Orthodox Easter...so it’s one week later...
Nevermind I see that the article mentions that LoL
This is a direct result of muh Russia. Those lousy Dems & their MSM looney buddies didn’t spare a thought for the consequences of demonizing Russia and poisoning our relationship with a nuclear power.
As POTUS said getting along with Russia would be a good thing not a bad thing. I hope we can mutually tiptoe back from the present posture of animosity & distrust. We have common goals and areas of discord but we can build some trust & mutual respect.
Every press conference, “Did POTUS ask Putin about the election involvement?” Brainless idiots. The American Government can not point any fingers without being hypocritical. We have destabilized Governments interfered in elections spied on foreign leaders...
Well the MSM and Demoncraps are total idiots in how they are ranting about Russia, that is true. However, this missile (IF it is really as good as advertised) must have been in development for many years. Russia did not just develop this missile program since 2016.
JayGalt, please stop treating Russia like its so innocent. Regardless of the timing of Brexit, Trump, and all the changes in the West plus the Democrats’ nonsense behavior — this is the direction Putin has been leading the country. They want a Cold War 2. Go there and ask people to find out yourself. There are many reasons for this. And its not our fault.
Excuse me. We are not innocent, Russia is not innocent. Read the post rather than just reacting.
There are areas we could work with Russia. We will never be able to let down our guard completely but if we are wary and good negotiators we could make our world much safer. I don’t agree that they want a cold war, with our one sided accusations we have backed them into a corner where they must be more aggressive than suits either country.
Your posts make it sound like Russia’s arms were reached out to us in friendship until Mueller came along...Do you know how far Bush Jr. + Obama and Hillary went in kissing up to the Russians? How much money they poured into the place?!
Didn’t work out well for us now did it. Because niceness can ne mistaken for weakness.
Putin’s legitimacy relies in large part to hostility and rivalry with the West. If they “work” with us on anything — they want it on their terms. And they don’t like the U.S. ever having the upper hand...even if its something like de-nuclearization of North Korea. You can bet Putin will be offended if Trump meets Kim Jong Un on his own.
If you don’t believe ordinary Russian citizens want a new Cold War, I suggest you stay in Russia and talk to the people there yourself. They have their reasons.
You are right, we have missiles & programs in development also. The point is the show of force which reflects the fracturing of relations with Russia which results from the attacks on POTUS for trying to maintain regular diplomatic channels, this spiraled out of control like dominoes. We need a cooling down of interchanges. We will need to find a way to coexist with Russia and it won’t be by escalating this flurry of distrust.
We acted like asses under Bush, Obama & Hillary. We had no respect and no one trusted us to keep our word. We tried to impose our system of Government on other Nations. We involved ourselves in other countries local affairs and did not fulfill our agreements.
POTUS had a chance to shown that it was a new administration that was no patsy but would negotiate in good faith and keep bargains. That was a chance to accomplish some common goals with Russia while pushing some of the issues where Russia’s behavior is problematic. We gain nothing by demonizing Russia and may lose quite a bit.
I have been to Russia and I find your comments on the Russian people inaccurate based on my experience. They love their country best, we love ours, they look for advance of their country, we ours. They are angry at some of America’s action and we at some of Russia’s.
We Americans complain a lot and are right to be penitent about our mistakes - but until we produce a Josef Stalin and pull off even just a fraction of the bloodshed, catastrophe, and horror the Soviet Union inflicted in the 20th Century...we should hold our moral high ground proudly.
The Russians have not fully divorced from the Soviet Union and are far less penitent. And the “collapse” was not that long ago. Lets stop pretending the past is behind us. It most certainly is not behind them.
The past is always with us but so is the future. I don’t believe in ancestral guilt. I am very proud to be an American but we do not have a moral high ground to hug to ourselves without effort.
Our morality as a Nation needs to be re-won every day just as our Constitution needs to be protected from daily attack by the left.
1991 was not that long ago. Soviet Union is not “ancestral.” And Putin is former KGB. His worldview however is hardly “former.”
Not quite the “he has risen” event “Christian Russia” would want if they were truly peaceful.
Putin - Once KGB, always KGB!
#8. JayGalt: Stop the pro-Russian propaganda line.
If they had wanted to be friends with the West and the US, they would not have:
1. Invaded Georgia and annexed two provinces
2. Invaded Ukraine and helped set up a puppet government in the Donest region
3. Would not have used thermobaric artillery shells which incinerated Ukrainian soldiers defending their country from both Russian troops disguised as pro-Russian Ukrainian/Russians, nor have fired these weapons from Russian soil.
4. Poisoned political opponents abroad and shot them down in the streets of Moscow, etc in broad daylight.
5. Aided Iran with their nuclear weapons program hidden under the guise of “nuclear energy”.
6. Provided Iran with their modern SA-300 anti-aircraft system, designed to thwart any US or Israeli attempt to take out illegal nuclear weapons facilities.
7. Aided Assad in Syria in their fight against other Syrian groups, including the Kurds, while doing very little to hurt ISIS.
8. Reenforced their Kaliningrad base where not threat existed.
9. Threated Poland with another invasion and warned Hungary about a possible act of retaliation for them and their relationship to NATO.
10. Secretly helping Hezbollah in Syria and Lebanon to seize parts of those countries and use them as bases to attack Israel.
11. Conduct major cyberwarfare attacks on US economic facilities as well as defense/governmental facilities/databases and systems.
12. Try to influence US elections, not including cover attempts to influence American leftist congressmen and women in how they vote.
13. Continue to prop up the communist dictatorship in Cuba and Nicaragua, and reportedly in Venezuela, with arms and supplies.
And this is only for a start.
I’m pretty sure I’ve been around longer than you have and have seen more Soviet operations and operatives in the US than you ever will.
Only a fool believes a Tiger becomes a Bobcat when it changes its stripes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-28_Sarmat
The horror, the horror. Russia builds the world's biggest microchips too.
Get a clue. Liquid-fueled ICBM's have so many drawbacks relative to solid-fueled ones that no one makes the things unless their chemical engineering is so backward that they can't produce comparable solid-fueled ones. I.e., the Russian chemical industry is 40-50 years behind ours.
All this does is prove that the Russians can't compete even with China in high-tech military equipment.
You are working from a black white perspective I am working from a pragmatic one. I try to look for what is in America’s interest not decide who is the good guy & bad guy because it looks different depending on where you stand.
If we can work on some common ground with Russia while making America stronger and more economically independent we will have more leverage.
I don’t see the point it demonizing. Learn from past behavior, analyze by understanding what they see as their interest and improve America’s position by making peace and cooperation in Russia’s interest. It’s not a tea party, one needs to be vigilant and count fingers but I would never waste the opportunity to gain leverage. We have squandered an opportunity because of the Democrats attempts to use a strawman to regain political power.
After Putin, maybe...or until Russians actually demand real change...for a change...
Ball is in their court. They need us more than we need them.
In the meantime, the West needs to sanction the pig oligarchs and freeze all their account holdings of looted Russian money.. which of course are all HERE and in the UK.
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