By Nick Paton Walsh
Russia is amassing unprecedented military might (click here) in the Arctic and testing its newest weapons in a region freshly ice-free due to the climate emergency, in a bid to secure its northern coast and open up a key shipping route from Asia to Europe.
Weapons experts and Western officials have expressed particular concern about one Russian 'super-weapon,' the Poseidon 2M39 torpedo. Development of the torpedo is moving fast with Russian President Vladimir Putin requesting an update on a "key stage" of the tests in February from his defense minister Sergei Shoigu, with further tests planned this year, according to multiple reports in state media....
This is a first-strike weapon and it is stealth, probably our technology, too. If this is our technology military research should be able to decode it and detect it, but, we don't know that for sure.
Look, Putin wins elections but he is not the choice of the Russian people. I doubt anyone but the hardline communists are in favor of escalating the nuclear war with The West.
Last summer there was a nuclear accident in Russia that killed 5 or 6 of their nuclear scientists. Now we know why. Russia wants war and this is one of the weapons they are intending to use. There is no doubt with parking nuclear capacity jets in Venezuela, Putin is outlining his strategy. This is serious and it won't go away. Why? Because Putin is on a timeline to regime change in Russia. The Russian people and in coveted satellites like Belarus, the people want a different government. They want free and open and fair elections that are not corrupt. They want representation in the Duma and other bodies in other countries to represent the values of the people and not a strong man that insists on being in power forever.
June 29, 2020
By Kyle Mizkoami
Radiation detectors (click here) across northern Europe have picked up a short-lived, non-dangerous release of radioactivity experts believe came from Russia. Authorities believe the leak, which was first detected in early June, is coming from western Russia. One possibility is that the test is in some way related to a new nuclear-powered cruise missile, which caused an accident in 2019 and several deaths.
The Associated Press reports that officials in Finland, Norway, and Sweden detected man-made radionuclides—that is, radionuclides that do not naturally occur in nature. According to the Barents Observer, Iodine 131 was detected by air monitoring stations at Svanhovd and Viksjøfjell, Norway, as well as a nuclear weapons monitoring facility at Svalbard. Analysis by the Dutch National Institute for Public Health indicates the source of the radiation is western Russia.
Iodine 131 is a radioisotope created as a result of nuclear fission, which is why scientists believe the radiation release is the result of an accident at a nuclear facility. According to the CDC, exposure to large amounts of Iodine 131 can cause burns to the eyes and skin. Iodine 131 ingested into the human body accumulates in the thyroid gland, causing thyroid cancer. Iodine 131 has a half-life of eight days, meaning it can disappear from the environment relatively quickly....
The Russian submarine fleet has always been it's "go to" capacity with nuclear bombs ready for launch off the shore of the USA and allies. But, it would seem as though Putin has opted for smaller ships more laden with bombs. I believe this is a European strategy more so than North America. I have to wonder if these ships are capable in the Black Sea.
April 1, 2021
By Benjamine Brimelow
It's stepping up operations in the Arctic, expanding its presence in Africa and the Middle East, and keeping a close eye on NATO around Europe.
It's also making progress on a number of high-profile shipbuilding projects. It plans to commission or receive six new submarines — three of them nuclear-powered — by the end of this year and expects to receive a fully modernized Kirov-class nuclear battlecruiser and to begin sea trials for its only aircraft carrier by the end of 2022.
These are impressive advances for a force that largely fell into disrepair after the Cold War. While the Russian Navy isn't as big as its Soviet forebear, the work shows that the Kremlin is committing to its modernization....
I never once believed the Russian military was incapacitated, even after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The hope for the world was always with new leadership with a vision to be part of greater global peace. Within that peace was economic prosperity, then came the Russian invasion into Ukraine. Yes, Crimea, regardless of Putin's rantings is part of Ukraine and the border war is still an issue. If one recalls Donald John Trump was going to withhold the necessary munitions from the USA that would hopefully end the conflict with Russia taking over the country. That was the Trump strategy, with a yellow streak up his back, he would hand over anything to Russia, including top secret information so long as he could be king.
But, these two new weapons are definitely a part of a global strategy for nuclear war. Putin has a problem though. If he deploys all this explosion in the world, there won't be a postage size stamp of land capable of occupying.
THIS ARMS RACE is old and dangerous and it has to stop. The Non-Proliferation Agreements must take precedent and end this madness. Putin as king is nothing the Russian people wanted. They probably don't like the arms race either, IF THEY KNEW ABOUT IT.
End this mess and get serious about the GLOBAL CLIMATE CRISIS that is now assaulting the mixing between the troposphere and stratosphere. That mixing is deadly and it has to come to an end. That is the real challenge of the world and this esclation in any arms race is stupid.
