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from Zero Hedge:
In an “Onion-sounding” article in Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda, titled “Trump-Pump-Pump And Our Big Bang”, Russian military expert Viktor Baranetz, a retired colonel and former defense ministry spokesman asserted thatRussia has asymmetrical responses to the increase in the U.S. military budget.
“…the Americans are deploying their tanks, airplanes and special forces battalions along the Russian border. And we are quietly ‘seeding’ the U.S. shoreline with nuclear ‘mole’ missiles (they dig themselves in and ‘sleep’ until they are given the command)”
Ministry spokesman asserted that Russia has asymmetrical responses to the increase in the U.S. military budget.
The Middle East Media Research Institute reports that, according to Baranetz, Russia is “quietly ‘seeding’ the U.S. shoreline with nuclear ‘mole’ missiles” that “dig themselves in and ‘sleep’ until they are given the command” to detonate.
Following are excerpts from Baranetz’s article
“Our Asymmetrical Response Is Nuclear Warheads”
“The U.S. is the permanent ‘world champion’ in the size of its military budget – almost $600 billion, which is 10 times more than Russias. Even if we add together the military budgets of the top ten countries in the world, they would not reach the American budget! Now it turns out that even that is not enough for Donald Trump. He intends to increase defense expenditure by $54 billion. This money would be enough to maintain five Polish armies. Or 10 Ukrainian ones.
“The American public is already grumbling at Trump, who prefers guns to butter. But cunning Trump understands what his trump card is: He is ‘buying’ the support of the army, as well as of military industry corporations. Former Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Army Yuri Baluyevsky is certain that ‘the idea to increase defense expenditure was presented to Trump by the U.S. military, who argue a lot about the power of the Russian army, realizing this is an opportunity to get new money.’ But how will Moscow react to the growing military budget of the U.S.? Baluyevsky answers: ‘Russia will not compete with the U.S. in defense expenditure. We are in a different weight class. For us, the main question is how to ensure Russia’s defense at a lower cost. I am sure that we have already found asymmetrical responses. I don’t see a big problem here.’
“What are these mysterious ‘asymmetrical responses’ that our politicians and generals speak about so often? Maybe it’s a myth or a pretty turn of phrase? No! Our asymmetrical response is nuclear warheads that can modify their course and height so that no computer can calculate their trajectory. Or, for example, the Americans are deploying their tanks, airplanes and special forces battalions along the Russian border.And we are quietly ‘seeding’ the U.S. shoreline with nuclear ‘mole’ missiles (they dig themselves in and ‘sleep’ until they are given the command)
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“Oh, it seems I’ve said too much. I should hold my tongue.
“In short, we have something to provide an ‘asymmetrical’ (and cheaper) response to the Americans.But if Trump has money to burn, let him spend it on weapons that the U.S. may never even need. And they say Trump is a good businessman…”
Of course, we have no way to confirm whether this is fact or fake news, but we note that Kremlin spokesman DmitryPeskov dismissed these claims.
Maybe he could move to long island, new York. I heard that’s where all the Russians live. And the famous Russian food, like new york Russian salad dressing, and the new york Russian tea room.
If money won wars, Vietnam would now be the 51st state, the insane amount of money the cheney administration spent attacking Iraq and Afghanistan in retaliation for Saudis supposedly attacking us would have made all of the middle east our bitch instead of us being their bitch by our troops being hopelessly mired in that mess, and our empire would now encompass the entire planet.
Military spending is just another way to bleed american working men dry and give their labor to corporations who manufacture insanely overpriced weaponry that seldom works properly and is more often than not never put into use.