... due to the loss of military expertise and due to the alternative universe it lives in when it comes to Russia.
Moscow believes that conditions for maintaining the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty with the US have “disappeared” and “no longer considers itself bound” by it, according to a statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry. The INF Treaty, which banned ground-launched missiles with ranges of 500–5,500km, collapsed in 2019 when Washington withdrew, citing Russian violations. Moscow has denied the claims, accusing the US itself of developing banned missiles. Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that the collapse of the INF will significantly erode the global security framework. “The Russian Foreign Ministry notes the disappearance of conditions for maintaining the unilateral moratorium on the deployment of similar weapons and is authorized to state that Russia no longer considers itself bound by the corresponding self-imposed restrictions previously adopted,” the statement reads.
The US didn't recognize that warfare changed dramatically and incompetence and arrogance didn't allow Washington to understand that it lost the arms race. Now, the only thing the US has in this respect is the so called Typhoon--MK41 VLS stuck on the wheeled truck and loaded with same ol' TLAMs. And the hope of making LRHW to become an actual weapon, not media fodder.
Slow (subsonic) TLAMs look like a clunky VW from 1960 trying to race Formula-1 from 2025. The arsenal of intermediate range weapons Russia already has is monstrous, from newest extended range Iskanders (1,000 + km) to Oreshnik, to Zircons, to 3M14M (4,500 km range) to other systems getting ready for deployment--it is a mismatch, especially when one factors monstrous Russian Air Defense, of a historical proportions. This is the end of West's domination and everything what is happening today is just an attempt to shape a narrative to use as a fig leaf trying to obscure a defeat of the West amidst of the conclusive salvos of the WW II. Yes, WW II.
In related news, the accumulation of VSU forces is reported near the border of Bryansk Oblast--they may try to repeat "Kursk" and kill those 50,000 they accumulate there. They have no other option. Or rather, here is one of their options:
How's that "maneuvering" going which they think they can do as prescribed in FM 3-0, how about those long range fires. We all know the answer.
