ERIC ZUESSE—MEGYN KELLY then asked him whether these weapons will be used only if Russia comes under a nuclear attack, or against any attack; he answered it would be either a nuclear attack “or a conventional attack on the Russian Federation, given that it jeopardizes the state’s existence.” He implied that if an ally of Russia gets attacked, Russia will respond only with non-nuclear forces.
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MILES—If you look at western press and punditry as of late in regards to Russia or Putin (which, for some reason is basically the same in western MSM’s perceptions) or, more specifically, in regards to Putin’s address to Federal Assembly of Russia, you would inevitably get the impression that all he talked about was weapons. Russian media (those that took note of the Address, that is) unfortunately, are trailing not far behind.
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ANDREI MARTYNOV—The Zircon (Kinzhal), is simply shocking in its capabilities. This, most likely based on the famed Iskander airframe, M=10+ capable, highly maneuverable, aero-ballistic missile with a range of 2000 kilometers, carried by MiG-31BMs, just rewrote the book on naval warfare. It made large surface fleets and combatants obsolete.
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STEPEHN LENDMAN—Trump was co-opted to continue the same imperial agenda, waging war on humanity, tolerating no sovereign independent countries. Dark forces in Washington reject normalizing Russia/US relations. Four undemocratic Dems (Feinstein, Markey, Merkley and Sanders) won’t change longstanding US posture toward Moscow.
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No More Mr. Nice Guy: Putin Unveils Next Gen Russian Nukes
11 minutes readJOHN WIGHT—The defiance with which Putin revealed the country’s new and enhanced missile technology was unmistakable. It was perhaps illustrative of the years of broken promises, bad faith, duplicity and encroaching and enveloping military pressure exerted by the US and its allies against the Russian Federation. Returning to Cohen: “The most fundamental [error by Washington upon the demise of the Soviet Union] was to treat post-communist Russia not as a strategic partner but as a defeated nation, analogous to Germany and Japan after World War II.”