Just what you want to do, make the Russians even more paranoid about Western intentions. From Theodore Postol at responsbilestatecraft.org:
Attacks on the early warning system actually highlights the fragility of peace between the world’s nuclear powers
For a fleeting moment on May 22 the world may have come closer to a catastrophic nuclear accident due to a reckless Ukrainian drone attack on two Russian strategic nuclear early warning radars at Armavir.
Fortunately, a subsequent Ukranian drone attack on a third radar station at Orsk in Russia on May 26 failed.
The incidents underscore a few important things. First, the Ukrainians could have needlessly sparked a crisis in which the Russians, feeling like one of their defenses against a U.S. nuclear attack, were down, struck back hard in retaliation. And second, it highlights the need for Russians to acquire comprehensive space-based nuclear radar of their own.
What happened and what it means
The Ukrainian attack at Armavir was a big deal. It shut down both Russian radars immediately. And it’s likely that within minutes of the attack, an emergency meeting took place with the commander of the Russian strategic rocket forces along with his highest-level officers.
The attacks should not be taken lightly, and President Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken should be giving this special attention.
Even after decades of expensive Russian attempts to build a space-based early warning system that could provide global surveillance of U.S. submarine missile launches, Russia has been unable to marshal the extremely specialized high-technologies needed to build such a system.
“We are talking about polycentrism, a departure from previous norms, and we see the desperate resistance of the Collective West… They see the norm differently – as their own dominance, as a world order based on one rule – that they must dominate as before, and everyone must do only what the dominant allows them to do,”
…“Today it is hegemonism, an obsession with domination, a painful pseudo-messianic idea of [the West’s] global mission… But neither people nor states can declare themselves as missionaries, only history can prove whether their mission was good or based on unhealthy ideas,”
The Lovely Maria Zakharova
(h/t-RT & MZ)
Breaking from Dandy Don Meredith:
Turn Out The Lights, The Party’s Over
Tomorrow and next year, start another WAR?
This just in from Invasion:
When The Trumpets Fade
Dumbest thing “Ukraine” could do. Riiiight. Ukraine.
“Ukrainians” sending a message to Russia that “Ukraine” could now launch nukes from “Ukrainian” subs in the Eastern Med., Red Sea, Persian Gulf, or Arabian Sea and Russia wouldn’t detect them. All those “Ukrainian” nuke subs.
And Biden and Blinken need to give this special attention because they were …. unaware? … that this is serious. Because they might have been taken off-guard by the “Ukrainians” “deciding” to target nuclear warning radars. Which “Ukrainians” did because it is essential to the defense of Ukraine in this particular war.
Uh huh. Now I know not to read Postol again.
Where are the clowns? Send in the clowns. Don’t worry, they’re here.