comes as Moscow is locked in what it casts as an existential standoff with the West over Ukraine.
those dipshits have done this to themselves.
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Is this a shocking headline for people who weren’t alive when the Cold War was still going on? Because when I was a kid Russia making plans for nuclear retaliation was just a typical weekday.
With the level of corruption they have in the reqular army, I’m pretty sure their fissile material is long past it’s prime and is now crumbly garbage.
Because why wouldn’t you steal maintenance funds from a weapon that will never be used and if it’s used nothing really matters anymore.
This is a case where you opponent cannot afford to be pretty sure
You can have 85% malfunctional and 10% intercepted the ones working are enough to be a problem
And not just fissile materials, but things like fuel, and machinery needed to run the rocket itself (high speed pumps full of precision parts, electronics, inertial guidance systems) along with the launch facility itself…
Does anyone believe them tho? They have a continuous history of being dishonest.
They can’t even participate in the Olympics without trying to cheat/lie.
Well, since nobody is hiding in bunkers waiting for the fallout to dissipate and radiation levels to drop far enough that quick surface travel is survivable, I’m gonna call bullshit.
They may have done a thought exercise like how sometimes you might get super bored and go “what if that old man goes crazy and pulls out a sword” and plan out a fight scene.
There is no “we did a test of our nuclear strike response” because no matter what that plan is, it will not work. No battle plan survives contact with the enemy, everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. Your nuclear response plans mean fuckall when 80% of the people involved in your test will be dead in under 30 minutes. What is the estimate now? Like 12-20 minutes of warning?
I rehearsed a world with a democratic Russia.
Then I sobered up and said fuck Putin.
