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Beware Of Big Bad Russian Space Nukes!

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Beware Of Big Bad Russian Space Nukes!

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Written by Drago Bosnic, independent geopolitical and military analyst

It’s truly inexplicable how the “evil” Kremlin is being “defeated” in Ukraine, mostly because its soldiers “lack” weapons and ammo and are forced to fight with “shovels and tree branches”, but still, Russia is somehow able to deploy “nukes in space”. Precisely this is the “logic” of the mainstream propaganda machine, stuck in a schizophrenic limbo of trying to underestimate Moscow while grossly exaggerating its losses and the need to present it as an immediate threat to the political West. Namely, on February 14, Ohio Republican Mike Turner, the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said that his panel had “made available to all Members of Congress information concerning a serious national security threat”. The major, imminent, grave, terrifying security threat soon turned out to be “Russian space nukes”!

The mainstream propaganda machine didn’t specify how these weapons got to space, as Russia is just a “nuclear-armed gas station with little to no real economy”. However, in all seriousness, ABC News quoted “two sources familiar with deliberations on Capitol Hill” who allegedly said that “the intelligence has to do with the Russians wanting to put a nuclear weapon into space”. Still, what the fearmongering media “forgot” to mention in its reports is that this “nuclear weapon in space” would actually be a nuclear-powered anti-satellite weapon (ASAT). There’s a massive difference between having thermonuclear warheads pointed at Earth from space and having a nuclear-powered spacecraft. The Russian military is already in possession of the former, as it was the world’s first operator of the FOBS back in the early 1960s.

FOBS, an acronym for the Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (СЧОБ in Russian), is a thermonuclear weapon system found on intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), designed to make their range effectively limitless. China tested its own version of the technology only in 2021, while the United States has been unable to create anything similar. Thus, Russia has had this capability for well over half a century, so why is there such hype over a supposed nuclear-powered ASAT all of a sudden? It’s exceedingly difficult to ignore the fact that this is being used as yet another excuse to push several warmongering agendas at once. First, it furthers the idea that there “cannot be peace” with Moscow, and second, it gives Washington DC the perfect excuse to continue militarizing space, started years before the special military operation (SMO).

House Speaker Mike Johnson played the role of a “good cop” and stated there was “no need for public alarm”, while Turner kept his role as a “bad cop”, calling on President Joe Biden to “declassify information about a serious national security threat”. On the other hand, three members of the House Intelligence Committee told Politico that the “threat caused by this new Russian capability is disturbing”, but that it’s a “longer-term concern, not a today thing” and that it’s a “serious issue, but not an immediate crisis”. In other words, it’s extremely likely that Moscow hasn’t even deployed this ASAT system (provided it even plans to). On February 15, the White House even said so, with National Security Council spokesman John Kirby vaguely confirming this assumption by saying that it’s “related to an [ASAT] capability that Russia is developing”.

In fact, Kirby even said that “this is not an active capability that’s been deployed”. In other words, this was an admission that the mainstream propaganda machine’s “end of the world” panic mode in the last two days was absolutely unnecessary. Kirby even went on to admit that, although this Russian capability is “troubling”, the weapon itself isn’t really a threat to anyone’s safety, as “it cannot be used to attack human beings or cause physical destruction here on Earth”. It’s very important to note that ASAT weapons have existed for much of the (First) Cold War and that all the fearmongering we’ve seen in the last two days would be almost the same as if somebody complained about thermonuclear weapons that have been around for nearly 80 years at this point. Worse yet, the latter can actually destroy the world, while ASAT weapons can’t.

Still, the US and NATO are indeed looking to militarize space and both have been saying so in recent years. This includes the belligerent alliance’s top officials, in particular its Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg who openly stated that space is the “next operational domain” back in 2019. Much earlier, during the (First) Cold War, the Reagan administration launched the much-touted SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative) program, now better known under its more popular name – “Star Wars”. However, unlike the US, whose SDI was largely a PR stunt, Russia actually built space-based weapons, including orbital lasers. What’s more, back in 1987, it launched a laser-armed spacecraft called the “Polyus/Skif-DM”. Although the program was scrapped due to the unfortunate dismantling of the Soviet Union, Moscow kept its know-how.

In fact, Russia even built land-based laser and other directed energy ASAT defenses in recent years, reactivating numerous programs, particularly in the aftermath of NATO-backed long-range attacks by the Kiev regime. Namely, the world’s most aggressive military alliance, a chronic threat to global security, is providing targeting data to its Neo-Nazi puppets through the usage of various ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance) assets, including its vast network of space satellites. It has even embedded private space companies such as SpaceX into its military capabilities. Both Russia and China see this as a threat and are responding in kind, including through close technological cooperation. However, the political West adamantly refuses their overtures to uphold international treaties that ban the militarization of space.

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france foreign legion dead

wash machines as satellite serial killers

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huha

if the u.s. accuses russia of something, it means the u.s. is doing it. a few examples: russian athletes dope, but american transsexuals win women’s championships. all norwegian biathlon champions are asthmatics and they take steroids. russia was accused of meddling in the us elections. but it appears that the entire dossier and the russian collusion were fabricated by the cia.

huha

boeing has a space shuttle, and no one knows what its purpose or mission is. i would bet on the placement of nukes in space. it makes a lot of sense.

huha

navalny is dead… pretty cheap, right. prigozhin – the hero who defeated ukrainian counteroffensive and the liberator of bakhmut – is also dead. interesting. anyone who disagrees with the putin-lavrov tandem will be dead sooner or later. by chance, of course.

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huha

why so many dislikes lol ? do you have problems with indoctrination or have you run out of factual arguments ?

FOAB

it’s much cheaper to to hit dislikes using bots and paid trols, to keep the bs narrative going when they are loosing control, as the west (nato) is out weapons, this is the only thing they have left!. on the other hand 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺 has 🚀🚀🚀 🔥🔥🔥 💥💥💥

Jull

prigozhin alone is responsible for about 1/4 of russian casualties, and biggest russian crisis in the war.. its actually justice that his plane got to explose.

Clyde

prighozin was a hustler. the notion that he defeated anything other than a rival hot-dog vendor is ridiculous. navalny was literally a us intelligence asset advocating for the overthrow of the russian state. real threats to the socio-economic system in the us get perforated by bullets. see fred hampton, martin luther king. russians had no reason to eliminate navalny.

Jull

some astuitely noted the scare is all about getting the 60 billion $ funding bill for ukraine approved by the house of representative (similar plot to “iraki weapon of mass destruction” scheme.. always coming from same place)

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tommygun g

russia would be doing the planet a favor if they would just nuke the district of criminals dc. take out the whole mafia criminal syndicate bunch and the world will be free.

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FOAB

don’t forget ursula von der crazzy they now have nukelier washing machines in space to cleanse the nato from all the bs, lol

Spiderman

be careful, don’t get caught up on you, retarded parrot, or maybe you’ll still have to eat them, russian material and technology are of the same caliber as putin’s culture, mentally retarded people like this parrot who writes must think they are immune to radiation and nothing happens to them, bunch of retards

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Spiderman

the russians already have lower salaries than the bulgarians, the russian people are really obedient

FOAB

propaganda or not? i don’t know, but it serves as a reason to send $60 zillion to ukraine! they need to have a dog in this fight, but all they have is a poodle, against a 🇷🇺 bear! lol 😆😆😆

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