US Nuke Pre-Emptive Strike Danger
A very quick post for now.
I have yet to hear anyone picking up on the claims that NATO deployed cruise missiles on Russian ammo depots in recent days. Nor does there seem to be any interest in the claims that the most recent Russian Sarmat test was a failure.
I heard Scott Ritter this morning sticking to his claim that we might all have been killed the Saturday before last had Biden initialled permission to the Brits to use cruise missiles against Russia.
The danger he says was not of a Russian nuclear response but of a process of escalation that would have triggered US preemptive nuclear strike doctrine. He cites Ted Postol in support of this analysis.
Great question. To me it shouts out a warning that just because the major nuclear power players may boast of their nuclear arsenals, these are relatively untested. I dont think it makes the world any safer or less safe, but simply that the technology is not error-proof. Also, of course, instances such as the Sarmat failure can be exploited to feed into the discourse about how rubbish everything Russian is, even as it is actually winning the war, and even as Russia has now possessed operating hypersonic weapons for some five years and the West still does not have them.
What’s the implication of the Sarmat failure?