This morning I highlighted Russia publicity surrounding the ambush and elimination of a NATO sabotage team inside Russia—a team that included at least one American as well as Canadians and possibly Poles.
The US always had the intention to lift all restrictions on the use of NATO weapons against targets in Russia, regardless of what happened next. The West is losing, and these pinprick attacks won’t change anything. Anyone expect Putin to say “well gee, we better ask the NK soldiers to leave or else we are going to get hammered by some western wunderwaffe?”
Anyone find it somewhat hypocritical that citizens from all NATO countries are fighting in Ukraine but a few NK soldiers can’t fight in Russia?
This is all getting so tiring watching the machinations of the NATO desperate fools.
Reading this post, where Mark wrote "..Russia is fed up with US brinkmanship", I thought of the color revolution or maidan that is being attempted in the country of Georgia. I heard about what is goingbon there in The Duran's Alex Christoforou's Oct.28 video.
I did a search, and found this information at Zerohedge:
"The West has had its eye on tiny Georgia after its parliament this summer passed a bill on foreign agents. The legislation requires any foreign group receiving more than 20% of their funding from overseas to formally register as "agents of foreign influence". Washington and Europe were outraged at the bill, which ironically looks much like similar laws in the US. Except in this case, US and EU-funded NGOs now have a harder time operating covertly inside Georgia."
Great post! This situation is evolving as we speak/post. A great current example of why Russia is "fed up." The efforts of the west to nip at the heels of Russia are continuing and appear to be never ending. Is it any wonder Putin is losing patience?
Here is another example of the nipping at the heels:
Yes, I've been following that but ... never got around to writing about it. In the end, you have to believe that Russia and Turkey will put an end to NATO meddling in Georgia and Armenia. The Georgians, smartly, are putting their foot down.
I remember reading a story a few years ago that indicated just what you say... that the silos are now non-functional. I'm going to have to try to find that. Thanks
I have not read that they are non-functional. I have read that they are so old that no one is left who knows how to properly read the schematics or maintain them. Draw your own conclusions from there, but if they can't be maintained, how do we know they will work?
They've failed a number of tests, I think, twice in recent years. So, for example, they had to abort one shortly after takeoff. I forget what happened to the other. The point being that nobody really knows what will happen for sure if they try to launch.
Another challenge some components have a limited lifetime. And due to environmental requirements forcing new designs, and the people with knowledge to build them gone, there is an issue building replacements.
Amusing - missiles were only supposed to have a 10 year lifetime. Now 50 years of service…
To be eventually replaced by the hopelessly behind schedule and over budget $100B Sentinel program. Why we need fixed ICBMs is beyond me. Spend the $100B to pull them all up like weeds so they are no longer targets and rely on SLBMs. But that would require the AF to give up one of its two legs of the nuclear triad!
Zhou gonna burn down the house before he leaves.
The US always had the intention to lift all restrictions on the use of NATO weapons against targets in Russia, regardless of what happened next. The West is losing, and these pinprick attacks won’t change anything. Anyone expect Putin to say “well gee, we better ask the NK soldiers to leave or else we are going to get hammered by some western wunderwaffe?”
Anyone find it somewhat hypocritical that citizens from all NATO countries are fighting in Ukraine but a few NK soldiers can’t fight in Russia?
This is all getting so tiring watching the machinations of the NATO desperate fools.
Austin is huff and puff. He’s out in less than 90 days.
Reading this post, where Mark wrote "..Russia is fed up with US brinkmanship", I thought of the color revolution or maidan that is being attempted in the country of Georgia. I heard about what is goingbon there in The Duran's Alex Christoforou's Oct.28 video.
I did a search, and found this information at Zerohedge:
"The West has had its eye on tiny Georgia after its parliament this summer passed a bill on foreign agents. The legislation requires any foreign group receiving more than 20% of their funding from overseas to formally register as "agents of foreign influence". Washington and Europe were outraged at the bill, which ironically looks much like similar laws in the US. Except in this case, US and EU-funded NGOs now have a harder time operating covertly inside Georgia."
Russia has to be fed up with the US' meddling in
more places than Ukraine and Israel.
Speaking of Georgia… appears their version of maiden movement in play. https://www.wharfedaleobserver.co.uk/news/national/24684168.tens-thousands-rally-georgia-denounce-parliamentary-election/
Great post! This situation is evolving as we speak/post. A great current example of why Russia is "fed up." The efforts of the west to nip at the heels of Russia are continuing and appear to be never ending. Is it any wonder Putin is losing patience?
Here is another example of the nipping at the heels:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russian-special-forces-academy-chechnya-hit-drone-attack
Yes, I've been following that but ... never got around to writing about it. In the end, you have to believe that Russia and Turkey will put an end to NATO meddling in Georgia and Armenia. The Georgians, smartly, are putting their foot down.
The USAF's immobile Minuteman ICBM's, sitting in their stationary silos are probably non functional ornaments, Russia's ICBM's on the other hand . . .
Russias ICBM’s are now submarine launched hypersonic missiles.
I remember reading a story a few years ago that indicated just what you say... that the silos are now non-functional. I'm going to have to try to find that. Thanks
I have not read that they are non-functional. I have read that they are so old that no one is left who knows how to properly read the schematics or maintain them. Draw your own conclusions from there, but if they can't be maintained, how do we know they will work?
They've failed a number of tests, I think, twice in recent years. So, for example, they had to abort one shortly after takeoff. I forget what happened to the other. The point being that nobody really knows what will happen for sure if they try to launch.
Another challenge some components have a limited lifetime. And due to environmental requirements forcing new designs, and the people with knowledge to build them gone, there is an issue building replacements.
Amusing - missiles were only supposed to have a 10 year lifetime. Now 50 years of service…
https://www.wsj.com/video/series/equipped/the-130-billion-plan-to-replace-the-uss-minuteman-nuclear-missiles/8BF23412-D0AD-4FC6-8213-5611FB36DA84
To be eventually replaced by the hopelessly behind schedule and over budget $100B Sentinel program. Why we need fixed ICBMs is beyond me. Spend the $100B to pull them all up like weeds so they are no longer targets and rely on SLBMs. But that would require the AF to give up one of its two legs of the nuclear triad!