The Kremlin said on Monday that Russia will hold drills simulating the use of tactical nuclear weapons in response to the latest provocations from the West.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov pointed to comments from Western officials about sending troops to Ukraine to fight Russian forces. Last week, French President Emmanuel Macron reaffirmed his view that deploying NATO soldiers shouldn’t be ruled out despite the risk of nuclear war.
“They talked about the readiness and even the intention to send armed contingents to Ukraine, that is, to actually put NATO soldiers in front of the Russian military,” Peskov said.
The announcement of the nuclear drills also comes after British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said Ukraine was allowed to use British-provided weapons to hit targets inside Russia. The UK has been providing Ukraine with Storm Shadow missiles, which have a range of 155 miles. A German military leak recently revealed that British soldiers are “on the ground” in Ukraine, helping fire the missiles.
Russia’s Defense Ministry also referred to “provocative statements and threats against Russia by certain Western officials” when announcing the nuclear drills. “During the exercises, a set of measures will be carried out to practice the issues of preparation and use of non-strategic nuclear weapons,” the Ministry said.
The drills will be conducted by Russian military forces based in the Southern Military District, whose headquarters are in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don. The Defense Ministry said the exercises would begin in the “immediate future” and would involve “aircraft and naval forces.”
Day upon day, we inch ever closer to the cliff’s edge
Singing and dancing on the brink of thermonuclear Armageddon.
The Western forces have never beaten Russian forces for after many tries over the past several Centuries but the Pentagon thinks that they are weak and don’t know how to fight. Macron thinks that he is the New Napoleon and will win because the Americans are going to help but the Americans don’t have an Army and the Navy and the Marines don’t have enough people to do it by themselves so they can’t win a War against a powerful Russian Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force. They are cutting the best American weapons to pieces and Victory Park has been loaded with M1A1 Tanks and other trophies. We are screwed.
WWI!?
Same with Afghanistan which was never defeated, and that goes back even further in history. But, don’t expect Wash. to pass up another endless war, more money to be made and business is business.
Our idiot leaders never miss an opportunity to escalate. Such a move will be presented by the Neocons as, “See. We told you Russia is losing and we are winning!” While in fact, humanity is losing the battle for our existence. Congratulations to all of us! Cigars and drinks on me! …What’s that? …Pay for them yourself. …Now you want to balance the budget?
univers25
ah
the moment
take a look
its yesterday
a glitch
ee’r to repeat
einstein knew
idiocracy
frogs
on a slow boil
but still
locust
amok
on the titanic
“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself
do not become a monster… for when you gaze long into the abyss. The
abyss gazes also into you.”–Nietzsche
That abyss is gazing back at us right now.
But, we are the monsters.
Never say ‘we’ unless you are participating voluntarily, which I believe you do not, nor myself either. Too bad we are coerced out of our stolen wages and interest to fund atrocities abroad, but that’s what you get when one is ruled over by a dictatorship by committee as in the US.