{"id":83740,"date":"2018-12-26T14:30:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T18:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=83740"},"modified":"2018-12-26T14:16:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T18:16:15","slug":"the-russians-now-have-a-hypersonic-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=83740","title":{"rendered":"The Russians Now Have a Hypersonic Missile"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vladimir Putin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’m only posting this now, because Vlad Putin is Russian Orthodox and the Orthodox Church doesn’t celebrate Christmas until January. And that’s getting close. Vlad is pawing the ground and snorting. He can now claim a successful launch of a hypersonic missile (a\/k\/a \u00a0a glide vehicle<\/em>, per the story) as his ultimate answer to the US\u2019s aggressive warmongering. Full story is at the link: https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2018\/12\/26\/putin-oversees-hypersonic-weapon-test-says-its-invulnerable\/<\/a><\/p>\n

These days, I can\u2019t figure out if he\u2019s whistling Dixie in Russian or just yankin\u2019 us because it\u2019s fun for him to do so.<\/p>\n

From the article: \u00a0Speaking to Russia\u2019s top military brass after watching the live feed of the launch of the\u00a0Avangard vehicle<\/a>\u00a0from the Defense Ministry\u2019s control room, Putin said the successful test was a \u201cgreat success\u201d and an \u201cexcellent New Year\u2019s gift to the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The test comes amid\u00a0bitter tensions in Russia-U.S. relations<\/a>, which have sunk to their lowest level since the Cold War times over the conflict in Ukraine, the war in Syria and the allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.<\/p>\n

Note the linkie thingie to another article in the middle of the missile test news, in which he says we\u2019re threatening him with war. Here it is:\u00a0 https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2018\/12\/20\/putins-ominous-warning-us-is-raising-threat-of-nuclear-war\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Oh, puh-lease! \u00a0Yes, Vlad, I do know about Tsar Bomba, what it was like and its range. But that was the 1960s and this is a lot later. I lived through that. So did a lot of other people I know.<\/p>\n

We are not<\/em> the ones who want nuclear war. We<\/em> have always seen nukes, et al., as deterrents, not weapons. We<\/em> won’t start it, but by God,\u00a0we will end it<\/em>. \u00a0We were glad the Cold War ended<\/em>. You should have learned something from that.<\/p>\n

Be careful what you wish for, Vlad. You might not like it.<\/p>\n

Anyway, \u00a0S<\/span>chastlivogo Rozhdestva.<\/p>\n

(My Cyrillic \u00a0script didn’t work here, so it’s phonetic.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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