The Russians might give hypersonics to Iran and Yemen.
Even that is small. You might have a British carrier sunk somewhere far from the war zone. You might wake up one morning to find the undersea cables from the US to the UK and EU severed in several spots. You might see an internet attack on pipelines or the grid or banking here at home.
The possibilities are endless. Hell, I am amazed we haven’t seen missiles installed in Cuba again yet.
DC and London are under the deadly illusion that they can raise merry hell, and nobody would ever dare strike back. But there is always that moment George McFly snaps and knocks out Biff.
Iran has their own hypersonic missiles. That’s not to say the Russians or Chinese wouldn’t share some of theirs as well. The concern I have is whether the Iranians supply the Houthis.
It’s being claimed that the Houthi missile that took out the UK naval vessel was supplied by Russia in retaliation for the UK assisting Ukraine in taking out a Russian naval vessel. Putin has already made remarks about how maybe Russia should supply Yemen with “defensive weapons”. You can be sure if the Israel/Gaza war goes regional Russia will be supplying Iran with weapons. They’ve already begun supply Syria with anti-aircraft systems to counter Israeli strikes.
“The Russians might give hypersonics to Iran and Yemen.”
Hypersonic weapons are fantastically expensive and only have utility if you know exactly where the target is and the target is too well protected against normal ballistic weapons. An aircraft carrier, assuming you knew exactly to the inch where it would be, is an ideal high value target. A tanker or even a normal warship is not worth the cost of a hypersonic weapon.