Did Putin save the world?

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Julian Macfarlane
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Did Vladimir Putin save the world by destroying the underground nuclear-resistant Yuzmash factory with an Oreshnik?

Probably. To find out how, read on….

Striking fear into the hearts of the powerful

Take a look at the people who run Western civilizations— the Bidens, the Trumps, the Starmers, the Macrons, the Merz’s, the Takaichis, (we can count Japan as “West” rather than “East”), the von der Leyens. Let us not forget the Rubios and the Hegseths and their ilk. Also, Musk and Bezo and the technocratic billionaires.

What do these people *(can we really call them “people”?) want from life? Money and power. That’s all.

How do they get it? By exploiting others. Others die so they can live.

Back in the 20th Century, they could be pretty sure they would survive nuclear war.

If you were rich, you could build a luxury bunker to sit out Armageddon.

A lot of billionaires still think that and are buying up chunks of sheep pasture in NZ to create underground playgrounds, which of course, they would never be able to reach in time before a nuclear weapon fried them and their family—and also the private jet, which they were counting on.

Coming out from underground in a couple of years to rule what is left of the world, only to be eaten alive by mutated carnivorous sheep? LOL .

Now that would be justice.

Fortunately, for most of us, nuclear war is a lot less likely now than it was for Scott Ritter and George G when they were young.

That’s simply because, as I have said, those who are in command now have skin in the game. Kallas and Von der Leyen, and all the rest spend a lot of money on skin creams and cosmetology. So, go figure!

Delusionality

Why was the US military and Deep State so willing to risk nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis”. Because they were never in danger.

While millions of Americans would die, the President and his people, Congress, and the military and their families were all protected.

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the U.S. military command and families could have sheltered in a network of highly secure, underground facilities designed for “Continuity of Government” (COG) operations, primarily the Raven Rock Mountain Complex.

Kubrick’s dark satire of Cold War madness, Dr Strangelove (1963), presented among other things a class of “survivors”—people immune to the Bomb—that sheltering underground in comfortable facilities would simply go on to repopulate the planet after “victory” over the commies.

Key shelter locations included:

Raven Rock Mountain Complex (Site R)

Located near Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania, this facility served as the primary alternate command center for the Pentagon and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It was a self-sufficient “underground Pentagon” with emergency operations centers for all military branches, designed to withstand a nuclear attack.

The Greenbrier Bunker

Hidden beneath the Greenbrier hotel in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, this top-secret facility was built as an emergency relocation site for the entire U.S. Congress. Although fully stocked and operational by 1962, it was never actually used during the crisis.

Declassified in 1992 after a Washington Post exposé, the bunker is now open to the public for tours and features exhibits on its history, including decontamination chambers, meeting rooms, and a power plant. The bunker was decommissioned in 1992 but its existence was maintained by a small, hidden group of government employees who kept the facility operational for over 30 years.

Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center

Located in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, this facility was the primary hub for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and part of the plan for housing the President and cabinet members in an emergency, though the President would also have airborne options.

National Emergency Command Post Afloat (NECPA) Ships

Beginning in 1962, the Navy maintained two command ships, the USS Northampton and USS Wright, as potential “Floating White Houses” to evacuate the President from Washington D.C..

Post-Attack Command and Control System Facility (The Notch)

Located under Bare Mountain in Hadley, Massachusetts, this was a hardened bunker that housed the command post for the Eighth Air Force.

Local Command Posts

Other facilities, such as an emergency command post within a fallout shelter in the Borax Mine near Edwards Air Force Base in California, were readied by volunteers in response to the escalating tensions.

Emergency command shelters and facilities

Borax Mine Fallout Shelter: In case of nuclear war, a community fallout shelter located in the Borax Mine, near Edwards Air Force Base, was readied as an emergency command post. It was equipped for 17,000 people, including food, water, and medical supplies, though thankfully it was never used.

Cheyenne Mountain Complex:

While not fully operational during the crisis, this massive command and control center in Colorado was under construction from 1961 to 1966 and would have become a primary military command shelter.

Guantánamo Bay Naval Base:

The base was reinforced with additional Marines, and all non-essential personnel, including dependents, were evacuated to prepare for a potential invasion.

Casa Marina Hotel:

In Key West, the US Army took over this hotel and used it as its headquarters during the crisis.

Other preparations

Key West:

Besides the hotel headquarters, ground-to-air missile batteries were also set up at locations around Key West, such as the airport, beaches, and piers, to protect against potential attacks.

Presidential shelter:

A separate shelter on Nantucket Island was built in 1961 to protect President Kennedy, although it was a civilian, not a military, command shelter.

Today, the White House has its own:

No, it is NOT “nuclear bomb proof”!

Catch 22 (or is it 23?)

Times have changed.

Russian hypersonic missiles, as Putin so clearly demonstrated with this test strike using Oreshnik:

cannot be intercepted
capable of deep penetration
highly precise.

During the Cuban missile crisis ballistic missiles were not that precise, nor had the penetrative capabilities of hypersonic missiles. So bunkers had higher survivability.

The primary factors influencing bunkers’ vulnerability are:

Accuracy of Modern Weapons:

Unlike the less accurate missiles of the Cold War, modern guidance systems allow for incredibly high precision (low Circular Error Probable, or CEP). This means a strike can be aimed directly at the most vulnerable points, such as the hardened entrance doors or communication antennas on the surface.

Earth-Penetrating Warheads:

Specific nuclear earth-penetrating weapons are designed to impact the ground at high speed, bury themselves a few meters deep, and then detonate. Exploding underground dramatically increases the shockwave that propagates through the earth and rock, multiplying the effective destructive force against subterranean structures far more effectively than an airburst.

Hypersonic Speed and Maneuverability:

Hypersonic weapons travel at speeds greater than Mach 5 along unpredictable flight paths, making them extremely difficult to detect and intercept with current defense systems. This ensures a higher probability of the weapon reaching its target location unimpeded.

Limitations of Bunkers:

Even deeply buried facilities like Cheyenne Mountain, which sits under 2,000 feet of granite, were often designed to withstand a large blast a certain distance away, not a direct hit from a modern, multi-megaton nuclear warhead or a smaller, more precise earth-penetrator. The tremendous energy released by a direct hit would likely render the facility inoperative, potentially collapsing tunnels or severing essential communication links.

In short, the combination of high precision and earth-penetrating warheads on modern delivery systems, especially those that are difficult to defend against, like hypersonics, fundamentally challenges the absolute “invulnerability” of fixed underground command centers.

The U.S. has developed backup systems, such as the National Airborne Operations Center (NAOC) aircraft and mobile ground command centers, to ensure continuity of command in such a scenario, but these are unlikely to be of much use, if central political and military command is destroyed.

The Oreshnik Warning Strike

It should be noted that the Yuzmash Oreshnik strike was on underground industrial facilities designed during Soviet times to manufacture ballistic missiles and to withstand a nuclear blast.

Of course, the Ukrainians denied any real damage was done despite eye witness reports. And naturally Western “analysts” believed them (as they always do, despite the Ukrainians always lying), saying Oreshnik was nothing new, old kit from 20 years ago, and similar stories for children in their 60s. (No 12-year-old would believe it!)

Oreshnik was a clear demonstration of a technological breakthrough that the Americans are not even close to emulating.

In their attempt to discredit the strike , the Ukrainians said Oreshnik did not use explosive warheads. If that were true, it should be even more alarming since all reports indicate they completely destroyed the underground workshops. That, with just kinetic warheads?

Imagine five or six penetrative nuclear warheads striking at the same time!

And Oreshnik is just a medium-range missile. Its big brother is Avangard, Mach 20, launched by a long-range Sarmat with a 10-tonne payload, ten 750 kiloton, nukes or 15 or 16 lighter MIRV warheads, and 3 Avangard hypersonic glide vehicles (HGVs) or a combination of warheads and anti-ABM countermeasures.

Goodbye US of A.

Sorry but all flights to NZ are cancelled because all the pilots and ground crews are dead.

You can run, but you can’t hide.

If it comes to nukes, those at the top die first, along with their families. Sorry for the families.

That is NOT the case in Russia to the same extent since the country has effective anti-ABM systems like the S500, not to mention, very extensive shelters left off from Soviet times for the public and newer accommodations for the government and military, as well as recently affordable protection for the public — in public areas.

See anything like that in downtown New York?

Russia will survive. The US will not. The war is between pragmatism and delusion.

What If?

Even a limited nuclear war would result in massive ecological damage, a nuclear winter, causing famine and global starvation and disease.

The world’s population would be reduced to perhaps 100 million from 8.3 billion — reduced to pre-historic levels.

Humanity would survive, but not quite as we know it.

Chernobyl did not destroy all the animal life in the area, although many animals did get sick and die. Some animals such as wolves came back stronger. And you have blue dogs.

Mutant Dog in Chernobyl

What can I say? The dog appears otherwise healthy. So maybe some hope.

As I have mentioned, Chappy’s first anniversary is coming up. No party, though— Chappy is afraid of people and hides from strangers. So just me and Ichi on the 6th, I guess. And treats . Maybe tuna cake?

Apart from that, Part 2 of “The Book” is coming along very well. Among other things, it attempts to explain civilizational violence.

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