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Cold War II: Nuclear Boogaloo
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MorbidKate
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Actually the move does make a difference. The missiles in question are believed to be SS-21s so this puts them within range of Tbilisi.Grand Fromage wrote:They did that a while ago. Also saber-rattling--it's not like parking the launchers 50 miles further south matters-- but a much more fun brand of it. If they give the launchers to the Ossetian separatists instead of manning them themselves, that'll be the first major event here.
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/miss ... /ss-21.htm
And did anyone see the footage of the bush-league Russian conscripts that were used in many places? How do you spell "trouble"?
Kate
"We had gone in search of the American dream. It had been a lame f*ckaround. A waste of time. There was no point in looking back. F*ck no, not today thank you kindly. My heart was filled with joy. I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger. A man on the move... and just sick enough to be totally confident." -- Raoul Duke.
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Grand Fromage
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Russia has thousands of warheads that can reach anywhere in the world. In 1962, when ICBMs were still new, moving missiles close to their targets mattered. Now it's posturing, unless they give them away--which I hope Putin isn't stupid enough to do.MorbidKate wrote:Actually the move does make a difference. The missiles in question are believed to be SS-21s so this puts them within range of Tbilisi.
Then again, there's nothing to say they're even loaded with nukes. They can also carry conventional explosives and be used as super long-range artillery, in which case their presence is no big deal.
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MorbidKate
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Russia would never use long range ballistic missiles for conventional use for forget about ICBMs. The SS-21 can carry a nuclear warhead but it's main purpose it to deliver a large conventional warhead out to about 120km so there's no chance of another country thinking a nuclear war was starting. Besides the Ruskies had already used the SS-21 in Chechnya and it's believed a few have been used in Georgia already so it's not posturing. The move is just to put the Capital within reach in case things escalate.Grand Fromage wrote:Russia has thousands of warheads that can reach anywhere in the world. In 1962, when ICBMs were still new, moving missiles close to their targets mattered. Now it's posturing, unless they give them away--which I hope Putin isn't stupid enough to do.
Then again, there's nothing to say they're even loaded with nukes. They can also carry conventional explosives and be used as super long-range artillery, in which case their presence is no big deal.
Kate
"We had gone in search of the American dream. It had been a lame f*ckaround. A waste of time. There was no point in looking back. F*ck no, not today thank you kindly. My heart was filled with joy. I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger. A man on the move... and just sick enough to be totally confident." -- Raoul Duke.
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HATEFACE
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“In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.” - Open Message to the Executive Branch.
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Nekulor
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Russia pulled out of the Russia-Nato Convention today. While a moderately useless organization in the last 10 years, it does show that we may be entering an ugly new era for East-West relations. They didn't even directly tell us, they went through Norway like in the Soviet era.
I voted for Obama. The apocalypse is nigh!
