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President Donald Trumps silence in the face of Russian President Vladimir Putins unveiling of the Kremlins new Satan 2 nuclear missile and a video showing it targeting the U.S. is scary, says a former American ambassador to Moscow.
Putin unveiled the new hypersonic intercontinental ballistic missilewhich cannot be shot down by anti-missile systemsThursday during his annual state of the union-like address to Russias Federal Assembly in Moscow.
Other countries only listen to Russia when it comes out with new weapons, Putin said: You will listen to us now. Putin showed a video of nuclear missiles raining down on what appeared to be Floridas Tampa Bay area, home of the U.S. militarys central command.
A Kremlin leader announced today several new nuclear weapon systems designed to attack America in novel, scary ways, and our commander in chief (unless I missed it?) did not say one word in response. Amazing, wrote Michael McFaul, U.S. ambassador to Moscow under President Barack Obama.
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EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)Priorities, after all.
SWBTATTReg
(22,059 posts)the Russian equivalent of fifth agents emplaced into this country prior to an attack by Russia. Beware.
Why else would Russia develop such weapons?
orangecrush
(19,384 posts)have been a long time in development, no doubt.
Trump is just one part of Putins strategy.
The timing is perfect.
poboy2
(2,078 posts)orangecrush
(19,384 posts)along with a stooge President will weaken U.S. influence tremendously.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Instead of peace efforts, per Jesus, we are gun ho in starting WW3.
Farmer-Rick
(10,134 posts)Trump was probably told not say or tweet anything. Putin told him, he would only take out a small piece of the US. A nuke with its fall out will make us very similar to Russia with their radioactive site.
orangecrush
(19,384 posts)I think the threat the weapons represent is the real power.
Was that was all through the cold war.
Ghost Dog
(16,881 posts)Perhaps it would be useful to read the transcript: http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/56957
It was our duty to inform our partners of what I said here today under the international commitments Russia had subscribed to. When the time comes, foreign and defence ministry experts will have many opportunities to discuss all these matters with them, if of course our partners so desire.
For my part, I should note that we have conducted the work to reinforce Russia's defence capability within the current arms control agreements; we are not violating anything. I should specifically say that Russia's growing military strength is not a threat to anyone; we have never had any plans to use this potential for offensive, let alone aggressive goals.
We are not threatening anyone, not going to attack anyone or take away anything from anyone with the threat of weapons. We do not need anything. Just the opposite. I deem it necessary to emphasise (and it is very important) that Russia's growing military power is a solid guarantee of global peace as this power preserves and will preserve strategic parity and the balance of forces in the world, which, as is known, have been and remain a key factor of international security after WWII and up to the present day.
And to those who in the past 15 years have tried to accelerate an arms race and seek unilateral advantage against Russia, have introduced restrictions and sanctions that are illegal from the standpoint of international law aiming to restrain our nation's development, including in the military area, I will say this: everything you have tried to prevent through such a policy has already happened. No one has managed to restrain Russia.
Now we have to be aware of this reality and be sure that everything I have said today is not a bluff ‒ and it is not a bluff, believe me ‒ and to give it a thought and dismiss those who live in the past and are unable to look into the future, to stop rocking the boat we are all in and which is called the Earth...
lame54
(35,259 posts)lpbk2713
(42,736 posts)Once one is detected there will be dozens launched from all over the world. There
are always several subs at sea armed with missiles with nuclear warheads.