Russia to Add 40 New Intercontinental Missiles This Year

[Purveyor]

Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JUNE 16, 2015, 2:55 P.M. E.D.T.

MOSCOW — Russia's military will add over 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles this year alone that are capable of piercing any missile defenses, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday in a blunt reminder of the nation's nuclear might amid tensions with the West over Ukraine.

Putin spoke at the opening of an arms show at a shooting range in Alabino just west of Moscow, a huge display intended to showcase Russia's resurgent military.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg accused the Russians of "nuclear saber-rattling," and said that was one of the reasons the western military alliance has been beefing up its ability to defend its members.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, briefing reporters via teleconference from Boston, where he is recovering from surgery on a broken leg, called Putin's announcement concerning.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/06/16/world/europe/ap-eu-russia-military.html?_r=0

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Russia says it would match any U.S. military buildup in Eastern Europe

Source: Washington Post

MOSCOW — Russia would swiftly respond to any moves by the United States to build up military resources in Eastern Europe by fortifying its western border with more troops, tanks, planes and missile systems, a defense official told the Russian press Monday.

The Pentagon is considering plans to store heavy weaponry, tanks and other vehicles in the Baltics, U.S. officials said Saturday . If that happens, Russia would view the move as “the most aggressive step since the Cold War,” Russian army Gen. Yury Yakubov told the Russian news service Interfax.

Yakubov said Russian forces “along the entire perimeter of Russia’s western border will be reinforced” as soon as Russia notes the buildup of any American heavy military equipment in the Baltics or Eastern Europe.

U.S. officials said the proposal, if approved, would put extra weapons and vehicles in countries that might include Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/russia-says-it-would-match-any-us-military-buildup-in-eastern-europe/2015/06/15/7db91350-1361-11e5-8457-4b431bf7ed4c_story.html

[DFW]

1. Such a wise allocation of resources

This ought to scare off all those belligerent Scandinavians and Slovaks that had been meaning to invade Russia any day now, but somehow just never got around to it.

[A Simple Game]

2. No problem, I still remember how to hide under an elementary school desk.

Now, does anyone have an elementary school desk for sale. I want to get one quick before the demand causes the price to skyrocket.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

6. That would make you 65-66 or more.

I just missed that (61). I do remember at about 7 y/o hiding behind a bush when they had the "1st Tuesday of every month" siren tests. They told us in school if that went off, it meant we were under nuclear attack. Now, those, were the good old days!

[Mr.Bill]

7. Kids today are sissies.

All they have to worry about is getting shot in gang crossfire.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

9. I feel so bad for them. No jobs for many. McDonalds for some.

[A Simple Game]

16. You're close, I'm 64. Never had to hide behind a bush though. n/t

[CatholicEdHead]

15. Duck and Cover time again?

[madokie]

26. I just gave an old one away

They were tearing our old high school down to make way for the new domes that replaces it and I picked up a couple three of the chairs from the dinning hall and a desk. I'd say they're all '60 vintage. Now I wish I'd kept it. damn

[A Simple Game]

28. The only effective method of survival and "I just gave an old one away."

Unbelievable!

[madokie]

30. Sorry

I thought it would be good for our grand daughter to sit in and draw, eat or whatever she was playing with but she never took to it and one day my wife asked is there any reason we still have this in the dining room taking up space? Me with no answer I pick it up and move it to the front porch and say here is the plant stand you wanted. She looked at it, then me and mumbled something but in a week or so I seen it wasn't going to be used for that. So one of my friends was over one day and as he was leaving I said got any use for this old desk. Sure he says and I said here, handing it to him, take it home with you so he puts in the bed of his truck and now its in his shop taking up space. Thats how it happened that I fucked up, sorry

[A Simple Game]

32. Sorry? Normally I would say "no big deal, I'll live" but in this case? Who knows?

I guess I'll just have to stick with drop and cover. Honestly, I probably wouldn't fit under one of those desks anymore.

I know what you mean about something taking up space. I have lots of that stuff, too good to throw out but can't really find a place for it to really fit in. Some days I think that's the only reason my wife keeps me around, well that or nostalgia.

[One_Life_To_Give]

33. A Knockoff or the real McCoy?

That imported knockoff probably won't stop anything over a kiloton. What you really want is The Desk that Educated the West.
http://thumb9.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/603316/603316,1290763857,2/stock-photo-vintage-black-and-yellow-crack-paint-old-school-desk-with-brick-background-65972263.jpg

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

37. Ah, the old megaton nuclear crouch couch. That will protect you from everything but the fallout.

[cosmicone]

3. Why can't we just hand over Victoria Nuland and exit? n/t

[erlewyne]

4. 1,2,3

Wow! great responses ... made my day!

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

5. "sound of a whoopee cushion"

[SCVDem]

8. A one to one match is illogical

When you can destroy the planet 50 times over, what's forty more missiles?

These are identified as an ICBM type. That is not a tactical use weapon. What do you really want gone so much that doomsday is an acceptable option?

I think Putin is insane!

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

10. Packer fan?

From LA? There must be more to this story. I'm a BIG Pack fan.

[SCVDem]

11. Greenfield, Wi,

Home of Alan Kulwicki. I joined the Marines in '73 and stayed in Cal after.

This is Green Bay's year!

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

12. Well, that's a horse of a different color!!

Yes, Green Bay will win the SB at least 2 or 3 times in the next 5 years.

You heard it here first!! This is going to be a great year!

Sorry about Alan. I just wikied him.

[joshcryer]

29. It's targeting EU.

Russia rightly calculates that no ballistic missiles have a chance in hell of reaching the mainland USA.

They're trying to put pressure on the EU.

[Angleae]

31. Actually, there's nothing to stop russian ICBMs from hitting the US in the quantity they have.

All US ballistic missile defenses are only capable of defeating a limited number of missiles, nowhere near the number Russia can put up. However, there is no chance in hell that a retaliatory strike won't be launched.

[t99tank]

13. new hitler

nazi puttin new hitler

[PersonNumber503602]

18. That seems a but hyperbolic.

I don't think he's a nice guy, but the Hilter comparisons people love throwing around about any of their "opposition" is kind of silly. He's not really doing much more than what other militaristic bully nations have done in the past and are doing now. And yeah, I include the US in the list of those nations.

[iandhr]

14. Remember the lesson from Dr. Strangelove

"The whole point of the doomsday machine is lost if you keep a secret"

[seveneyes]

17. Maybe the USA should provoke Russia even more?

[PersonNumber503602]

19. or maybe Russia should provoke the US and allies more by building more ICBMs..

[seveneyes]

20. Or maybe only those with a clue should delve into recursive problems

Like the morons that think a God will save us, the idiot savants will blow us all up with their ignorance.

[PersonNumber503602]

21. Russia adding more ICBMs does nothing to help

much like if the US adds ICBMS, it wouldn't help the situation. If the US did this, then I doubt any normal (heh) people on here would be saying "Russia should stop provoking the US into building nuclear weapons." Instead we (at least I would) be stating how stupid it is to continue building more ICBMs filled with nuclear warheads. It seems like the majority on this thread do not like it when Russia or the US do it, and they don't give Russia a free pass just 'cause they're not the US.

[seveneyes]

22. Not exactly

I will arm myself and family to negate or defeat any armed threat against us. Nukes don't work like that.

It's an exponential thing and I can assure you the USA will counter any threat. We all fall down.

[L0oniX]

34. I'm sure Hillary won't allow that...

and I have a nice purple bridge for sale. Pigs are already flying over it too.

Enjoy your next war hawk POTUS ...war hawks aren't on the endangered species list in the US ...but they should be IMO.

[NuclearDem]

36. Point about Russia aside, that MGS V trailer music is some catchy stuff.

[Psephos]

23. Ahh. The fruits of Smart Diplomacy.

Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.

[Little Tich]

24. Russia needs to stop being a problem for the rest of the world.

I want a Putin-free Russia.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

25. Putin needs to be fired

Russia needs a new government

[Monk06]

27. Time to rebuild Fort Churchill lol

[L0oniX]

35. This ain't no chemistry set gone wild.

[brooklynite]

38. How else with the Russians protect the freedom loving people of Eastern Ukraine?

or Eastern Poland?