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the yanks had received a warning from the russians a few minutes before.....

In the space of a couple of days this week two completely unprecedented attacks occurred that have the potential to rewrite world history. The US and UK directly attacked Russia and, for the first time ever in war, an Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile was fired – by Russia. Naturally, most people in the West paid little attention.

 

In the death throes of Ukraine’s lost war, we witness the birth of WWIII     By Eugene Doyle

 

Within moments of the silo opening at the Kapustin Yar rocket base in Russia on Thursday, American eyeballs were on it. They had received a warning from the Russians a few minutes before, through the joint nuclear risk-reduction channels, but no one on the Western side could actually guarantee what payload the rocket carried, what the destinations of its multiple warheads really were, or what would happen when those warheads struck their targets travelling at 12,000 km/h. If nuclear-armed, one such missile has the ability to destroy several of the major cities of Europe. Thankfully, the warheads were conventional and all were concentrated on a military-industrial complex in Dnipro, Ukraine, 800 km away. They struck about 5 minutes later.

Stephen Clark, writing on the US tech site Ars Technica says the attack portends a new era of warfare. 

Wednesday. The strike came hot on the heels of another major and historic escalation, this one undertaken by the US and UK, using their long-range ATACMS and Storm Shadow missiles, to hit inside Russia for the first time, reportedly targeting sites that included the headquarters of Russia’s Army Group North. 

Le Monde reported that 12 British Storm Shadow missiles were fired. Pause and think about that: the British military using their own targeting experts, inputting proprietary coding data, top-secret weapon initiation sequences, real-time satellite coordination, etc, fired missiles into Russia. 

A bit like cutting a ribbon, some Ukrainian might have been allowed to push a bright red button to get things moving. Not even at the height of the Cold War was either side reckless and brainless enough to do such a thing.

President Putin says the war has now been globalised. The Russians lost no time in counter-striking.

Thursday’s attack on the Yuzhmash military-industrial complex was the first use of a new generation of missile, the Oreshnik, which the Russians say is now in serial production. They travel 6,000 km/h faster than US Patriot missile interceptors and are almost certainly unstoppable. 

The footage is staggering: the sky lights up and a volley of warheads strikes at Mach 10 (12,000km/h). Nima Alkhorshid from Dialogue Works asked a very sensible question about the Russian strike on Dnipro and Putin’s speech that followed: “Did the West receive the message?” 

Typically, Western leaders say any Russian warning is bluffing and sabre-rattling but I hope they are sitting up and paying attention. Unfortunately, that does not appear to be the case. Jean-Noël Barrot, the French foreign minister, said France has no “red lines” in terms of escalation and reiterated that the project is still on for Ukraine to be part of NATO. 

Russian-American military analyst Andrei Martyanov says it may be time to “kick the Chihuahua”. If the West fires more missiles into Russia, the next targets for the Russians is likely to be military installations on NATO territory, possibly in Poland or Romania, but equally likely British naval vessels or bases either in the UK or places like Cyprus. Martyanov says the British seem to want to experience real war first hand.

“What was demonstrated to the United States, as well as to those Chihuahuas like Britain and France, was that they have no means of intercepting anything like this and they can be dealt with when Russia decides to.”

Bellicose language but Russians are furious at being attacked by the UK and US.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke of a “qualitative shift” in the war. “We will be taking this as a qualitatively new phase of the Western war against Russia and we will react accordingly.”

With US strategy in Ukraine increasingly incoherent, US officials admit the “permission” to use long-range missiles “is not a game-changer”; yet it represents the kind of escalation President Biden had previously said could lead to WWIII. Is he just trying to hand a poisoned chalice to Trump?

The war’s tempo is clearly quickening. Also this month, President Putin outlined a change in the country’s policy for employing nuclear weapons in conflict, lowering the threshold.

In military terms this week’s dramatic events are about “moving up the escalation ladder”. Leopard and Abrams tanks were first kept off the battlefield, then included. Cluster munitions were suddenly used, including on civilian targets; F16s were considered too dangerous a signal to Russia, then they were permitted. This and more all took a couple of years, one rung at a time. Now we are moving up the escalation ladder in leaps and bounds. Where will it end?

“Russia holds overwhelming conventional escalation dominance,” Martyanov said. “but if they (the West) want to go nuclear, we’re all pretty much done.”

But here’s the crazy thing: the hope of defeating Russia, taking back all Ukrainian territory, dealing a deadly blow to the Russian economy, placing NATO missiles in Ukraine, and achieving regime change is all-but-certainly a shattered dream. Russia has won the war in Ukraine; the West must accept this and negotiate or drive us all to the precipice.

The winds of disappointment are blowing through the capitals of the West. In a piece, “Ukraine Morale Falls”, Deutsche Welle reported this week that 30,000 Ukrainians have deserted this year; the judicial system is so clogged that the Rada (parliament) passed a bill saying deserters who returned would be forgiven.

The long suffering of the Ukrainian people, the deaths and mutilations, their shattered economy, blasted infrastructure and all the misery that comes with defeat in war will not be alleviated by escalation, it will only be made worse.

Anatol Lieven, visiting professor at King’s College London and senior fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, wrote an excellent article this week calling on the Democrats to fundamentally reorient their foreign policy – to summon the courage to break free of the “Blob”, the permanent state within the US state, that has disastrously misguided US foreign policy. 

Lieven says, I think wisely, “The US needs to abandon its messianic strategy of spreading ‘democracy’ through US power, which has become in practice little more than a means of trying to undermine rival states.”

He goes on to recommend, as many of us have for years, that peace with Russia must be pursued, that the NATO expansion project must be abandoned, and that the US must get out of the planetary hegemon game.

Ukraine is simply the latest in a string of national projects that were fatally captured by a great power in pursuit of its own ends. The US has as little concern for Ukrainians as it does for Iraqis, Libyans, Syrians, Afghans or Vietnamese. So many of those who drank the US Kool Aid and shackled their national projects to the US geopolitical juggernaut eventually got crushed and left in the dust of their own countries as the Americans moved on to their next project.

Back in 1618 Europe started to tear itself to pieces in the geostrategic contest known as the Thirty Years War. Once the continent was devastated, its leaders signed the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 ushering in an era of diplomacy and recognition of the importance of balancing the security interests of all parties. They had cannons, swords, pikes and muskets. We have nuclear weapons. We all need to evolve our psychology and think more like statesmen and stateswomen – and less like nutters.

https://johnmenadue.com/in-the-death-throes-of-ukraines-lost-war-we-witness-the-birth-of-wwiii/

 

MAKE A DEAL PRONTO BEFORE THE SHIT HITS THE FAN:

 

 

NO NATO IN "UKRAINE" (WHAT'S LEFT OF IT)

THE DONBASS REPUBLICS ARE NOW BACK IN THE RUSSIAN FOLD — AS THEY USED TO BE PRIOR 1922. THE RUSSIANS WON'T ABANDON THESE AGAIN.

THESE WILL ALSO INCLUDE ODESSA, KHERSON AND KHARKIV.....

CRIMEA IS RUSSIAN — AS IT USED TO BE PRIOR 1954

TRANSNISTRIA WILL BE PART OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION.

A MEMORANDUM OF NON-AGGRESSION BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE USA.

 

EASY.

 

THE WEST KNOWS IT.

 

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from bad to worse......

 

Will Armageddon Be Joe Biden’s Final Legacy Regarding Russia?

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When the Soviet Union dissolved in late 1991, the world seemed poised for a new, more peaceful era no longer haunted by the fear of a nuclear Armageddon. The principal successor state from the wreckage of the USSR was a noncommunist Russia that was intent on becoming part of the democratic, capitalist West. President George H. W. Bush and his top advisers exercised considerable diplomatic skill managing the twilight years and ultimate demise of the Soviet Union. Their core achievement was to gain Moscow’s assent to Germany’s reunification and membership in NATO.  The implicit tradeoff (unfortunately never put in writing) was that NATO would not expand beyond the eastern border of a newly united Germany.

The contrast between the benign end to the original Cold War and the current status of relations between the West (especially the United States) and Russia could not be greater or more alarming. NATO’s meddling in the armed conflict between Ukraine and Russia has become an outright proxy war for the Alliance. As NATO’s leader, the United States has pushed a series of extremely dangerous escalatory steps. The latest provocation is the decision by Joe Biden’s administration authorizing Ukraine to use long-range U.S. Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) that are capable of striking at least 190 miles inside Russia. Moscow has responded by adopting a new nuclear doctrine warning that the use of such missiles by NATO’s Ukrainian proxy would mean that Moscow is officially at war with the U.S.-led alliance. Perhaps Russian President Vladimir Putin is bluffing, but the risk of a nuclear collision between NATO and Moscow now appears to be very high.

It is bitterly ironic that the decision to let Ukraine use U.S. missiles that might trigger World War III has been made by the lamest of lame duck U.S. presidents. At the 59th minute of the 11th hour, the leaders of the Democratic Party pressured Biden to withdraw from the presidential race. They did so because the evidence of his cognitive decline had become undeniable. However, his hand-picked successor, Kamala Harris, then proceeded to lose the presidential election to Republican nominee Donald Trump.

To say that the Biden administration has no mandate to make such a crucial decision involving war and peace would be a monumental understatement. In fairness, though, the current foreign policy crew is not solely responsible for fouling-up relations with Russia and provoking a new cold war with nuclear implications. That “achievement” has been a bipartisan effort taking place over more than 3 decades.

Toward the end of George H. W. Bush’s administration, public opinion polls in Russia showed that nearly 80 percent of Russians held positive views of the United States.  In the late stages of the Bill Clinton administration, nearly the same percentage held negative opinions.

It was hardly a surprising development.  During his years in office, Clinton and his Russian-hating advisers (especially UN ambassador and later Secretary of State Madeleine Albright) antagonized Moscow on multiple occasions. Washington went out of its way to attack Russia’s long-standing religious and political clients, the Serbs, as the Yugoslav federation disintegrated. However, the Clinton administration’s decision to expand NATO to include Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary, struck the biggest blow to East-West relations.

Clinton’s successor, George W. Bush, continued and intensified the policy of provoking and antagonizing Russia. Subsequent rounds of NATO expansion brought U.S. military power to Russia’s immediate neighborhood by adding such new members as the three Baltic republics, Slovakia, Bulgaria, and Romania. Most provocative of all, Bush pushed to add Ukraine to the Alliance. Although Germany and France temporarily blocked immediate moves to make Ukraine a member, Washington’s ultimate goal was quite clear.

A rising number and volume of warnings against making Ukraine a NATO asset also came from Putin and other officials.  Washington and its key European allies ignored those warnings, but it became clear in 2014 that the Kremlin was not bluffing. When President Barack Obama and key European leaders helped overthrow Ukraine’s generally pro-Russia president and install a regime subservient to NATO, Moscow struck back emphatically, seizing Ukraine’s strategic, but majority Russian populated, Crimean Peninsula.

Relations between the West and Russia continued to deteriorate thereafter. In the autumn of 2021, the Kremlin proposed a new relationship with the West that amounted to Russia’s minimum demands. Those demands included a guaranteed neutral status for Ukraine – thus foreclosing the prospect of Kyiv’s eventual membership in NATO. The Kremlin also sought the withdrawal of advanced U.S. weaponry from the easternmost members of NATO. It amounted to an ultimatum, and when the Biden administration treated Moscow’s demands with contempt, the Kremlin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. That offensive, combined with the decision by the United States and its allies to impose severe economic sanctions against Russia, ignited an ever-escalating military crisis.

It is uncertain whether President-elect Trump intends to end the dangerous impasse with Moscow.  Contrary to the partisan myth that Trump has been Putin’s puppet, his actual policies during his first term were consistently hardline. One can hope, though, that he has fully understood what a disaster Washington’s love affair with Ukraine has become for both countries. Restoring cooperative bilateral relations with Russia is essential for global peace.

Alarmingly, however, Trump might not get that opportunity, even if he wishes to back away from the beckoning abyss. The lame-duck Biden administration still holds power for nearly another two months, and, if administration leaders are so inclined, that is more than enough time to plunge the country into nuclear war. Biden’s conduct in recent weeks, especially authorizing Ukraine to attack Russia with U.S.-supplied, long-range missiles, is beyond reckless. Biden’s legacy is already bad, but it could become even worse.

Reprinted with permission from Antiwar.com.

 

https://ronpaulinstitute.org/will-armageddon-be-joe-bidens-final-legacy-regarding-russia/

 

MAKE A DEAL PRONTO BEFORE THE SHIT HITS THE FAN:

 

 

NO NATO IN "UKRAINE" (WHAT'S LEFT OF IT)

THE DONBASS REPUBLICS ARE NOW BACK IN THE RUSSIAN FOLD — AS THEY USED TO BE PRIOR 1922. THE RUSSIANS WON'T ABANDON THESE AGAIN.

THESE WILL ALSO INCLUDE ODESSA, KHERSON AND KHARKIV.....

CRIMEA IS RUSSIAN — AS IT USED TO BE PRIOR 1954

TRANSNISTRIA WILL BE PART OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION.

A MEMORANDUM OF NON-AGGRESSION BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE USA.

 

EASY.

 

THE WEST KNOWS IT.

 

READ FROM TOP.

 

YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

 

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         Gus Leonisky

 

colleagues....

Meeting of the President of Russia with the leadership of the Ministry of Defense, representatives of the defense-industrial complex and developers of missile systems.

November 22, 2024, 19:50 p.m., Moscow, Kremlin

 

Vladimir Putin:

Dear friends and colleagues.

As you know, yesterday I briefed the personnel of the Armed Forces, the citizens of Russia, our allies around the world, as well as those who are trying to blackmail us by force, about the newest Russian intermediate-range missile system. This is our, your complex, which you have named "Oreshnik." This is a ballistic missile with non-nuclear hypersonic capabilities.

As you and I know from the analysis of objective control data, the test was a success. I congratulate you on that. And, as has already been said, we will continue these tests, including in combat conditions, depending on the situation and the nature of the threats to Russia's security. Especially since we have a whole stock of these items, a stock of these systems ready for use.

If I asked you to organize our meeting today, it is almost for the sole purpose of thanking you, of saying thank you for the results of your work. [I am talking about] you and all the designers of the "Oreshnik" system, all the scientific, production and labor collectives that participated in its creation, I have in mind all cooperation. As you know, these are the designers, scientists, engineers and workers who developed hypersonic technologies, calculated ballistics, mastered the production of the most modern materials, control systems, microelectronics, etc.

The results achieved and the speed of development of the new system indeed arouse feelings of pride and admiration and convincingly demonstrate that the national school of rocket engineering has enormous potential and is capable of solving the most complex tasks to ensure the security and sovereignty of Russia.

In this regard, I would like to emphasize that the "Oreshnik" system is not a modernization of the old systems of the Soviet era. Although it is obvious that we all come from the various systems of the Soviet Union, we were all brought up on the basis of what was done by previous generations and, to some extent, we used their results to some extent. But this system is, first of all, the result of your work, work done in the Russian era, in the conditions of the new Russia. It was created on the basis of modern, cutting-edge developments.

And I must say that in the current conditions, when we are facing new and growing threats and challenges, work on such weapons systems is of special, even vital, significance for our country.

Once again, I would like to emphasize that the solution to the tasks of the special military operation and the future of Russia today depend, first of all, on our soldiers and officers, on the courage of assault fighters and gunners, tankers and paratroopers, sappers, pilots, drone operators and landing troops, as well as on the well-coordinated work of all branches of the armed forces.

Our units on the line of combat contact are operating today successfully, competently, courageously and professionally. Every day they gain combat experience and increase their offensive potential. I repeat: the fulfillment of all tasks within the framework of the special military operation depends primarily on the professionalism, courage and heroism of our soldiers and officers.

But at the same time, it is very important for the soldiers on the front and citizens in general to know that we have a colossal technological base, a strong industrial and scientific hinterland to protect our security. And the weapons system that was tested yesterday is another reliable guarantor of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Russia.

As we know, as you know, no one else in the world has such weapons yet. Yes, sooner or later they will appear in other leading countries, we know what kind of development is underway in these countries. But it will be tomorrow, or in a year or two. While we have this system today. And this is important.

I would like to emphasize another aspect here. The Oreshnik missile system is not only an effective hypersonic weapon. By virtue of its striking power, especially when used en masse and in combination with other long-range precision systems that Russia also has, the results of its use against enemy targets will be comparable, in terms of effect and power, to those of strategic weapons. Although in fact the Oreshnik system is not a strategic weapon, it is in any case not an intercontinental ballistic missile and is not a means of mass destruction, not least because it is also a precision weapon.

As I have already said, I would add that there is no way to counter such a missile, no way to intercept it. And I would like to stress once again that we will continue to test this completely new system.

It is necessary to put its mass production on the rails, let's agree that the decision to mass produce this system has been made. Yes, in fact, it is already practically organized.

Given the special strength of this weapon, its power, it will be put into service in the Strategic Missile Forces.

It is also important that in addition to the Oreshnik system, several similar systems are currently being tested in Russia. Depending on the test results, these weapons will also go into production. In other words, we have a full range of intermediate-range and shorter-range systems.

The current military-political situation in the world is largely determined by the results of competition in the creation of new technologies, weapons systems, economic development. But, as I have repeatedly said, the decisive importance, of course, falls on people, on the courage of those who fight at the front, on the talent and perseverance of those who work in factories and design bureaus, in scientific centers and at enterprises of all sectors of the economy. And of course, we are proud of these people, with such people, of course, all the tasks of the special military operation, as I said, will be solved. And the security of Russia in general will be reliably ensured.

Once again, I would like to thank you and your colleagues for your hard, important and productive work, for the high results achieved, for your contribution to strengthening the security and defense capability of our people, to the defense of our Homeland in the broadest sense of the word.

And I would like to say that the creators of the Oreshnik missile system, those who designed and organized the production of the brand new complex, will certainly be nominated for state decorations.

Please, Vasily Petrovich, First Deputy Chairman of the Military-Industrial Commission.

V. Tonkochkourov: Goods.

Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich!

The complex was created, in fact, in the shortest possible time and entirely on the basis of Russian technologies. The problems of import substitution have been solved. The research and production base of the enterprises of the defense industry complex allows to organize the serial production of this type of weapons in the shortest possible time.

Vladimir Vladimirovich, I would like to emphasize that the available reserves of the scientific and production base of the defense industry complex for the creation of brand new, current models of weapons, military and special equipment made it possible to develop and supply the troops with modern weapons in a timely manner, and in the conditions of a special military operation to quickly take into account the need to refine weapons, military and special equipment and develop new models, as well as supply them to the troops. This makes it possible to quickly master new equipment and procedures for using means of destruction and use them directly in the course of combat operations.

A large investment program is also being implemented to increase the production capacity of defense-industrial complex organizations, which will significantly increase the production of weapons and equipment in high demand. The pace of production and delivery of weapons will allow reaching a level of equipment with modern weapons, military and special equipment of more than 95% for the Strategic Nuclear Forces and more than 82% for the Aerospace Forces.

I would like to emphasize that at present the enterprises of the defense industrial complex are taking all necessary measures to ensure the fulfillment of the tasks of the group of troops in the zone of the special military operation.

The report is complete.

V. Putin: Goods.

Yuri Ivanovich, please.

Yuri Borissov: Vladimir Vladimirovich, I would like to inform you that the rocket and space industry enterprises involved in the development and production of combat missile equipment are fulfilling all their obligations under the state defense order without any problems. The design, technological, production and, most importantly, personnel potential allows creating products with unique characteristics, which, as you have already seen, have no analogues in the whole world.

As for production capacities, practice has proven that we are able to increase the production of particularly demanded products, especially high-precision products, in the shortest possible time.

If necessary, we have reserves, we can increase production.

V. Putin: Goods.

Commander of the Strategic Missile Forces, please, Sergei Viktorovich.

S. Karakayev: Comrade Supreme Commander-in-Chief!

I would like to note that in accordance with your decision of July 2023, within the framework of the experimental construction works "Oreshnik", the Russian industrial cooperation has developed a mobile land-based intermediate-range missile firing system.

On November 21, 2024, the newest intermediate-range ballistic missile with a non-nuclear hypersonic warhead was tested in combat conditions. As a result of the launch, a strategic object on the territory of Ukraine was reached. The launch was successful and the tasks were completed. The launch results confirmed the correctness of the design and technological solutions, as well as the feasibility of the missile system with the specified characteristics.

The newest intermediate-range missile system "Oreshnik" has no analogues in the world in terms of its characteristics. The missile's combat equipment allows it to guarantee the breakthrough of all current and future missile defense systems. This missile system equipped with hypersonic units can strike with high efficiency various targets, both point and surface targets, as well as highly protected targets.

Depending on the objectives and range of this weapon, it can hit targets throughout Europe, which distinguishes it from other long-range precision weapons. As you have already said, the massive use of this type of weapon will be comparable to the use of nuclear weapons.

The development of the Oreshnik missile system will allow to expand the combat capabilities of the Strategic Missile Forces to hit different types of targets in accordance with the tasks assigned to them, both with non-nuclear and nuclear warheads. The high operational readiness of the complex allows to retarget any designated object and hit it in the shortest possible time.

Taking into account the positive results of the launch carried out, it is considered appropriate to put the complex into operation, to continue using it by strengthening its characteristics and refining the skills of the personnel in operation and use.

The report is complete.

V. Putin: So we will do. Thank you.

End of publication

source: Kremlin

 

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