Russia has notified the US that it has started its nuclear exercises, two US officials said on Tuesday, according to CBS News.
“Russia is complying with its arms control obligations and its transparency commitments to make those notifications,” Pentagon spokesman Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder told reporters.
Russia is holding its annual Grom exercises that will be held for several weeks, and the US says they will include the launching of nuclear-capable ballistic missiles. The drills coincide with NATO’s nuclear exercises, known as Steadfast Noon, that are being hosted by Belgium and held over the UK and the North Sea.
Both exercises have been described as “routine” but come amid soaring tensions between the US and Russia over the potential use of nuclear weapons. President Biden recently warned that the risk of nuclear war is higher now than at any time since the height of the Cold War.
NATO’s Steadfast Noon exercises do not involve live-fire drills, but 14 alliance members are participating. The US, Britain, and France are NATO’s only nuclear-armed powers, but five other alliance members host US nuclear warheads under NATO’s nuclear sharing program; Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Turkey.
Recommendation for Russia… Have a catchy title for your nuke drills and perhaps you do, I’d be curious to know… For the sake of curiosity: GROM? What the hell is a GROM?!
Sleepy Joe, where are you?…. There’s lots going on. I know you are a tad busy, being President and all but sir, Mr. President, do you have any cohesive thoughts on the present situation? Some of your citizens might be curious to know… I appreciate that you gave a warning but, perhaps you could tell us something, ya know, to ease some of the angst? Let me ask you a question sir… Are you presently engaged in hitting little white balls across your carpet, golfing? That’s cool, perhaps you are hosting a dinner with some allies… But some of your lowly citizens could use some reassurance… Maybe say a word or two about the present situation, ya know, reassure us?… (Do you need to look that word up? REASSURANCE?)………………………………………………………………………………
For a moment I thought you were doing a Scooby Doo intro theme.
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Okay, so this is cool. Open lines of communication. US (NATO) and Russia doing their nuke thing, putting the info. out there so everybody knows. I am down with that… Nuclear sharing, nuclear caring… blah, blah, blah… “Steadfast Noon”, sounds like a Western. Everyone just keep their guns in their holsters….
“US Says Russia Has Begun Nuclear Drills The Russian drills coincide with NATO’s nuclear exercises”
America’s insane shadow government of unelected bureaucrats take no responsibility for the end of humans on earth, but they will march ahead anyway.
Practice practice practice.
Maybe they could hold some kind of competition, a Grom/Steadfast Noon Games. The sports networks would be all over that, and they could use the money to buy more bombs and missiles or offset some of the cost of the exercises. Maybe if we embrace the insanity we can wrestle it to the ground. Just brainstorming here.
Kadyrov just declared Jihad on Ukraine. He needs to be careful his own people may put a Jihad on him.
Russia picked a fight it cannot win and now are desperate.
Growing up engaging in few street/school fights I learned one thing;
Never fight a guy smaller than you. If you beat him, there will be no glory and you’ll be called a bully/abuser. If he beats you, it’s a huge embarrassment that no one will ever forget.
https://youtu.be/UTTGsOgxMd4
Don’t lie please. He was talking about Jihad against Satanists who got the upper hand in The West.
Ukraine, after coup 2014 lost its independence. Ukraine is a bankrupt state. Without financial support from The West, Kiev regime wouldn’t last more than one month.
One of the saddest parts of this whole thing is seeing the Russian Orthodox Church completely discredit itself.
You mean Russian Orthodox Church is not active enough?
Or you didn’t like the yesterday’s speech of Patriarch Kirill?
I mean that the Russian Orthodox Church had to choose between being Christian and being pro-war, and Kiril chose the latter.
Christians must resist the forces of the evil.
It is remarkable that Christians and Muslims now united together against Satanists. Not only them. Texas is also resisting. Some people over there even talking about the independence from Washington. They want to protect their children.
Yes, Christians must resist the forces of evil.
And Kiril is a force of evil.
I’m glad to see from another commenter that it’s just Kiril and a few other rebels against God, rather than the whole Russian Orthodox Church.
Does your God promotes Sodomy?
I don’t presume to own a God.
Christians have God in their souls; that’s why they can distinguish the good from the evil and the truth from the lie.
I’m an Orthodox Christian (antiochian) and I just want to say that while Patriarch Kiril’s cheerleading of Putin’s actions have also caused me worry there is more to the situation than it seems. There have been many priests and bishops across the Moscow Patriarchate, inside and outside Russia, who have denounced the war and called for peace. In Orthodoxy, the Patriarchs though having an honorific title are just bishops, they are not on the same level of power as the Pope in the Catholic System – he is a fallible man like anyone else. It is a shame what Kiril has said at times but there has been pushback, even among his diocese (as opposed to, say, the Greeks)
There was no referendum about this in Church. Still, I am sure the overwhelming majority of Orthodox Christians are supporting Patriarch Kirill.
If a majority of Orthodox Christians support state murder, then like I said, the Russian Orthodox Church is discrediting itself.
The state murder was committed by those who destroyed a prosperous country Libya.
State murder is committed by all states.
I don’t support any of those states.
And I certainly don’t pretend God supports any of those states.
I don’t think you are regretting about the destruction of German state in 1945. So, if the state is evil, it is okay to destroy it and protect people from such a state.
I think, you are unhappy about Russian intervention in Ukraine because you don’t mind the genocide of Russians in Donbass.
“I think”
To be honest, the evidence for that claim is pretty thin.
I spent eight years objecting to the Ukrainian regime’s state murder in Donbas, and still do object to it.
I just don’t pretend that Russian state murder is magically morally superior to Ukrainian state murder.
It can only mean that your “objection” to Kiev regime crimes was hypocritical. Those who are supporting Kiev regime now, all of them supported far-right coup in Kiev in 2014. You know, the coup 2014 in Kiev was organized by US. The other NATO countries also participated in the establishment of anti-Russian regime in Kiev. Don’t pretend you don’t understand what is going on.
I am not “supporting the Kiev regime.” I am “opposing the war.” Just like I’ve opposed it the whole time.
Here is yet another reminder that NATO really does pose an existential threat to Russia. Intent to use Ukraine against Russia is why the Euromaidan coup was organized. Preventing the threat is why Russia drew a red line around Crimea, and later made the decision to invade Ukraine.
The extension of NATO to Russian border had two goals. 1 – creation of the conditions for a more efficient surprise attack against Russia. That’s why they worked so hard to create the anti-missile shield. They hoped, the anti-missile shield would help them to intercept the retaliating missiles from Russia. This shield became useless because Russia created hypersonic missiles. US can use those bases in Poland and Romania only for launching missiles against targets in Russia.
2 – It provoked the tension in NATO-Russia relations and gave the military industry oligarchs the opportunity to increase the military budget and, as the consequence, to increase their political power.
American missiles in Ukraine would make the possible surprise attack against Moscow and other targets in Russia even much more efficient. Control over Ukraine also would give a great opportunity for regime change in Russia because if Putin fails to prevent the ethnic cleansing of Russians from Ukraine (millions of people), his popularity in Russia would collapse. So, Putin couldn’t just stay aside and watch what is going on in Ukraine.
Yep, we all know Ukraine and NATO were planning to invade Russia and Annex the entire Western part including Moscow and Saint Pete.
Yep, to coincide with NATO. And notified US of the event.
If there was anyone that has a motive for causing a “little” nuclear event it is NATO. We are bombarded by scenarious in which Russia is losing the war, and resorting to nuclear. This is a stretch, Russia has not used a fraction of its capacities yet. No need to use nukes in Ukraine. What for? The only reason for Russia to use nukes is in a case of a threst from US or Europe. Nukes would then be flying in that direction – not a proxy Ukraine,
The German people did not host the nuclear weapons, they opposed the stationing in Germany, the Germans were coerced to “host” them. Ramstein is a big target and the biggest military hospital outside the continental US is near by.