... through Washington but you will not read it in mass media. Vladimir Putin today:
Translation: BISHKEK, 9 December. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted in Bishkek that Russia might consider "embracing" US security practices, including disarming strike tactics. "The United States has a theory of preemptive strike - first," the president told reporters on Friday. "Second: they are developing a disarming strike system. What is it? This is a strike with modern high-tech means, which should be delivered to control points, to deprive the enemy of these control systems and so on". At the same time, the head of state recalled that we are talking, in particular, about cruise missiles, including ground-based ones, which Moscow once abandoned. "We abandoned them, cut them, and the Americans were smarter at that time," he continued. "But now we have them. And they are more modern and even more efficient," Putin said. In addition, the president pointed out, "it was supposed to deliver a preventive disarming strike with the help of hypersonic systems." "But so far they are not in the States, but we have them," he added. “If we are talking about this disarming strike, then maybe we should think about adopting the achievements of our American partners, their ideas for ensuring our own security?” Putin noted. “We are just thinking about it. when they talked about it aloud in previous times and years."
Note. This strike is also known as "decapitating strike". Here it is--a warning against the background of widening gap between Russia and the US in both: hypersonic weapons and air-defense/anti-missile systems where the gap is even more pronounced. It is also a tacit "admission" of a desperation of the United States against the background of a loss of its, always grossly exaggerated, hegemony and message to D.C. which is... exactly what Putin says. The message? Two can play the game, and I am on record ad nauseam--the US lost the arms race. Which, BTW, Mr. Lukyanov, whose yet another opus I discuss in previous post today, should consider when commenting on geopolitics.
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