Sunday, March 20, 2022

Putin, Kim Jong Un and the Fake Nuclear Threat

In December 2014 I wrote a blog

‘Putin, Kim Jong Un and the Fake Nuclear Threat’ - Russia

https://galinapop-russia.blogspot.com/.../blog-post_20.html

All written in this blog is still relevant. And even more, because since then Russia has been going downhill all the time.

Below is a translation of my 2014 blog.

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Putin, Kim Jong Un and the Fake Nuclear Threat 

Of all 9 countries that have nuclear weapons, only the Russian Federation and North Korea threaten the world with their use. Their economies are stagnating, and populations are shrinking (death rate is higher than birth rate).

"Now that the hostile US policy of conquering our republic under the pretext of fighting for human rights has become apparent, the idea of ​​turning the Korean Peninsula into a nuclear-free zone no longer makes sense, the Korean authorities said in a statement. North Korea vows to double its military power.

The Russian Nuclear Weapons Revival website writes:

“Putin sees nuclear weapons as an invitation to the world's highest table. When asked last week if Russia really deserved to be in the G-8, the club of the world's leading industrial nations, Putin replied that Russia was a major nuclear power and therefore impossible to ignore. Putin makes no secret of his desire to see Russia great again - and since it is unlikely to be among the richest countries in the world in the near future, part of his strategy to achieve the above goal is to continue the nuclear game.”

Industry is not developing in Russia. If the industry developed, Russia could enter the top 8 industrial countries through the front door. But it seems to Putin that it is easier, rattling weapons, to enter through the back. Thus, he uses oil money for armaments, propaganda, and nuclear development.

But not everything is as simple as Putin says.

The Russian nuclear proliferation website writes:

Smart weapons are needed in the 21st century

“The state will not skimp on the rearmament of the army and navy. In the first reading, the State Duma adopted the draft budget for 2015 and for the planning period of 2016-2017. National defense spending will amount to almost 3.3 trillion rubles. This is a third more than in 2014, Colonel-General Viktor Zavarzin, a member of the State Duma Committee on Defense, clarified in an interview with reporters.

...However, not only money is the main condition for strengthening the country's defense capability.

...Further rearmament of the army depends on the rate of development of science and the dynamic implementation of its achievements. Since this task covers many aspects of life, to assess the success of its implementation, a special integrating indicator has been adopted - the "technological order".

...The Russian economy lives in the last century. Now the share of the fourth order in it is more than 50% and the third order - more than 30%. In the military-industrial complex, the most advanced part of our economy, the share of the fifth order is only 10%, while in the entire US economy the share of the fifth order is 60% and about 5% of the productive forces are already in the sixth order. Russia simply did not grow up to so high order.

 ... It is no coincidence that the promising carrier rocket Angara will fly, like the famous Korolev - Gagarin rocket, on a mixture of oxygen and kerosene. The Keldysh Center and the Moscow Aviation Institute spend hundreds of millions of rubles on R&D to create spacecraft for flights to other planets, but their development is a space dead end, because they repeat what scientists in the USA and Germany have abandoned."

 Vladimir Putin at a press conference in Moscow said:

“As you know, we have recently tested new ballistic weapons systems....”

For these missile systems, according to Putin, "what is an anti-missile defense system, what is not - they do not care," because they "change the trajectory in course and altitude. And the missile defense system is designed for ballistic missiles that can inflict strike, moving along a ballistic trajectory". This rocket can carry a nuclear weapon.

America is developing a missile defense system. The idea of ​​this system is as follows: when military equipment detects that a missile has been launched towards their country, then an anti-missile is sent towards it, which detonates the first missile in the air. This system has been successfully applied in Israel.

This is how the Russian Nuclear Weapons Revival website describes the nuclear warhead project.

“This warhead is launched into outer space by a conventional ballistic missile. But instead of falling to Earth on a predictable trajectory, it separates (from the launch vehicle) and maneuvers like a cruise missile when it returns to the Earth’s atmosphere. This maneuvering, analysts say, confuses the US missile defense system, which works on the principle of calculating the trajectory of an incoming warhead and intercepts this warhead when it is aimed at a target. Last year's tests showed that a prototype (Russian) warhead maneuvered for the first time at a speed of 8M (M is Mach number, speed of sound - translator's note), which makes it almost impossible to intercept and destroy it. It will take several more years (and a lot of extra money) before a new warhead is put into mass production. But Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov promised last December that a "new generation" of strategic missiles will appear in Russia before the end of the current decade anniversary."

The weight of an atomic bomb is several tons. The bomb thrown on Hiroshima weighed 4.4 tons. Imagine what energy must be used to maneuver such a weight at a speed equal to 8 speeds of sound. It seems fantastic!

However, "Russia certainly has the know-how to - at the expense of time and money - make a maneuvering warhead work," says the Russian Nuclear Resurrection website, and continues:

"... Putin's boastful statements are somewhat undermined by the fact that a new warhead alone is not enough to create a new generation nuclear arsenal" ... In addition, "delivery systems, both missiles and submarines, are rapidly becoming obsolete. Of the six Russian strategic nuclear missile submarines of the Typhoon type ... only one - the Dmitry Donskoi - has actually been re-equipped and is in service. And another seven Delta-4 class submarines ... will also serve their deadline by the end of this decade. So far, only two submarines are planned to be built to replace them. Russian missiles are also rapidly becoming obsolete. The heavy Russian SS-18 and SS-19 strategic missiles ... are too old to be used, and therefore they are being replaced by newer Topol-M missiles "at a rate of only 7 units per year. ... Washington can afford not to worry, because Putin's talk about nuclear weapons, apparently, has more to do with an attempt to raise the prestige of a hard-pressed military, rather than preparing for war with the United States."

In addition, the idea of ​​​​a "maneuvering" rather than a directly flying rocket is an old one, dating back to the 60s. Therefore, it is logical to assume that such a missile, as well as a computer program for tracking a "maneuvering" missile, is also being developed in the United States. I think that in this case the United States has gone far ahead in its development, given the huge technological gap between the United States and the Russian Federation.

So sleep well, dear readers. Nuclear war does not threaten us.

But, on the other hand, such a conclusion is true if Putin is sane. If Putin, driven into a corner, says: "Damn it all" and orders to blow up the nuclear arsenal right in Russia, so that the winds and oceans will carry nuclear ash around the world and much of life die. But most likely, this will not happen, because Putin's order will not be carried out. In the chain of performers, from Putin to the minister, to the techies involved in the actual launch of the rocket, there exist smart people.

 Putin's dead-end policy will lead to further impoverishment and extinction of the population, and in the end - to the collapse of the Russian Empire.

Now food prices are rising in Russia. Putin lowered the price of vodka. If there is no money for food, then do not think about who is to blame and how it can be fixed, drink and listen to Putin's toxic propaganda on TV. But such a policy cannot continue for long.

You can read about the standard of living of citizens, the health of the nation and where the money goes on the website:

 2014. PUTIN. IN FIGURES AND FACTS




 

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