American officials essentially suggested the elimination of Russia’s leadership, the foreign minister has said Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. © EVGENIA NOVOZHENINA / POOL / AFP
Reported comments by US officials about the possibility of a “decapitating strike” against Russia strongly suggest that Washington does not rule out the assassination of President Vladimir Putin, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with TASS news agency published on Tuesday.
The minister noted that some “‘unnamed officials from the Pentagon actually threatened to conduct a ‘decapitating strike’ on the Kremlin…What we are talking about is the threat of the physical elimination of the head of the Russian state,” he said.
The top diplomat went on to warn against such a line of thinking. “If such ideas are actually being nourished by someone, this someone should think very carefully about the possible consequences of such plans.”
Lavrov was apparently referring to a September article by Newsweek, which alleged that US defense officials are considering a number of options to respond against a potential Russian nuclear strike, including “a decapitation strike to kill Putin in the heart of the Kremlin.”
Fears of a possible nuclear conflict have been sparked in the West after Putin said in September that Moscow would use “all means” necessary to defend Russia and its people if its territorial integrity is threatened. However, Moscow has repeatedly stated that it has no plans to deploy atomic weapons, maintaining that a nuclear war should never be fought.
The foreign minister also accused some of America’s partners of embracing a confrontational approach in the nuclear sphere. “They seem to have gone completely beyond the bounds of decency,” he said, recalling that former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss “without a shadow of a doubt declared during the election debates that she was quite ready to order a nuclear strike.”
Lavrov also recalled Ukraine’s statements on the matter, saying “I not even mentioning the Kiev regime’s provocations, that go off the chart. [Ukrainian President] Vladimir Zelensky went as far as to demand preventive nuclear strikes by NATO countries on Russia. This is also beyond the bounds of what is acceptable,” he noted. (RT)
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The lunatics want a nuclear war, they just don’t want to be the first to swing. So instead they antagonize Russia to hit first so like a manipulative bully can play the victim for an outcome they created.
Our leaders hate us and want us all dead. Nobody seems to want to notice or accept it, so things just continue to get worse.
They’ll “think twice” . . . and THEN throw the football*.
*Which would make it a handball . . .
I read a book about nuclear weapons recently, and in it, a former top KGB colonel or something admitted that during the (1st) cold war, the soviet union already had suitcase nukes on US soil, mostly within major cities- as their smaller, tactical size warranted mostly urban applications.
I wouldnt be the least bit surprized (classical, American spelling of ‘surprised’) to find out that the Russian state has nukes within our national borders now. They’ve had many years to prepare. The modern Russian state has stealthy Poseidon nuclear torpedoes probably already camped out somewhere offshore as we speak, ready to detonate and create radioactive tsunamis up to 1,500 feet high, with the waves able to reach roughly 60 miles inland.
What a time to be alive.
“And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care.” — George Carlin
I find myself saying that a lot these days.
We should think before we think?
That sounds remarkably unhelpful as practical advice goes.
And should we be thinking about thinking about OUR decapitating strike, or yours?
As long as you’re telling us how to think, try telling us WHAT to think.
I think I’m thinking about being confused.
Those morans do not realize the decapitating strike scenario can go both ways.
Or do they?
I think that might be the plan. It would certainly solve the population problem.
I’m not sure about Russia, but there’s a lot of decapitating to do around here!
Turnabout is fair play!
The Biden administration think twice? I have yet to see them think once so far!
All this talk about nuclear war by TOP LEADERS by both antagonists is simply freaking me the fuck out.
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Do NOT tell me there’s no such thing as nukes. Fuck the fuck off.
And don’t tell me there won’t be a nuke war. How in da fuck do you know???
“The Risk of Nuclear Armageddon”
Ukraine should have thought twice before fucking with Russia.
Shrinkage!!!!
Cuntry 404 is winning!!!!
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Over the last ten days the campaign began to show significant results. Many of the recent daily reports from the Russian Ministry of Defense noted the results of this anti-artillery campaign. Here is yesterday’s one:
Within the counterbattery warfare, one U.S.-manufactured M-777 artillery system has been detected and destroyed near Netaylovo along with its crew that had shelled residential areas in Donetsk. Another M-777 artillery system has been destroyed near Preobrazhenka (Zaporozhye region).
One Uragan and two Grad multiple-launch rocket systems (MLRS) have been destroyed near Nevskoye (Lugansk People’s Republic) and Seversk (Donetsk People’s Republic).
Two Ukrainian 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems have been destroyed at their firing positions near Krasnogorovka and Prechistovka (Donetsk People’s Republic).
Four Msta-B and two D-20 howitzers have been destroyed near Kupyansk (Kharkov region), Velikaya Novosyolka (Donetsk People’s Republic) and Novogrigorovka (Kherson region).
Air defence facilities have shot down three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles near Olginka, Guselskoye (Donetsk People’s Republic) and Peremozhnoye (Zaporozhye region).
In addition, two Uragan MLRS have been intercepted near Kostogryzovo (Kherson region), and three U.S.-manufactured HARM anti-radiation missiles near Debaltsevo (Donetsk People’s Republic).
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And this one from today:
Within the counterbattery warfare, two U.S.-manufactured M-777 artillery systems, and one German-manufactured FH-70 howitzer, that were used for shelling residential areas of Donetsk, have been destroyed at their firing positions near Krasnogorovka (Donetsk People’s Republic).
Three Ukrainian fighting vehicles for Grad multiple-launch rocket systems have been destroyed near Seversk.
Three Ukrainian Msta-B howitzers have been destroyed near Petropavlovka (Kharkov region), Berestovoye (Donetsk People’s Republic), and Chernobayevka (Kherson region).
Ukrainian D-20 and D-30 howitzers have been destroyed near Georgiyevka and Maryinka (Donetsk People’s Republic).
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https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/12/ukraine-sitrep-counter-artillery-war-financial-desaster.html#more
Maybe we should launch a decapitation strike against that locus of evil, Mordor on the Potomac.
Billions of lives might be saved.