Forget a negotiated peace. Russia has no choice but to turn Ukraine into a permanently neutral rump state, without actual sovereignty, says Lira, and we agree. A state controlled by some Moscow-allied strongman. And, of course with no Nazis allowed anywhere, nor, for that matter, even a hint of a foreign military alliance, NGOs and the whole fetid rest.
RUSSIAN MIGHT
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In Russian Business Daily, Defense Companies Admit Major Difficulties Due To Sanctions
25 minutes read“Following the launch of Russia’s military special operation in Ukraine, the US and the European countries imposed a series of new sanctions against the Russian military-industrial complex. Now defense industry complex plants are still assessing the risks, but it is already apparent that due to the new restrictions a number of contracts will be postponed. There are problems with the lack of marine diesel engines, import substitution of helicopter and aircraft engines, electronics, replacement of imported components installed in tank’s fire control systems, as well as aircraft repairs. Yet, defense industries claim that the state defense order will be fulfilled at the same level, as in the previous year…”
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There is very little doubt that RS-28 Sarmat (1) as a strategic weapon, is not only unrivaled but also, in a good sense, a complete overkill. But that is the issue, even without Sarmat, the US has zero capability to stop what is known as head-on response (second-strike capability) of Russia. The US dabbling into the ABM technology for the last several decades produced, frankly, very little practical results and is no match for even a very limited second strike.
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MARIA GRITSCH —The US government and the corporate media falsely characterize Russia’s special operation as entirely ‘unprovoked’ and an ‘illegal invasion’. These allegations ignore four conditions which each independently compelled President Putin and the Duma to initiate Russia’s denazification and demilitarization operation and which establish this intervention as consistent with international legal norms.
Chief among the factors necessitating Russia’s immediate military response were indications of an imminent new massacre as 125,000 Ukraine forces amassed along the border of Donbass in December of 2021. This was never reported in the US corporate press.
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Back in 1983, the Novator Design Bureau (Sverdlovsk) began the creation of a new anti-ship cruise missile (the Turquoise project). This rocket was first shown in 1993. And it was on this basis that the 3M54 rocket was later created, which became the basis for the Caliber complex.
Many scientists, designers, engineers, technologists are involved in its creation. But there were “intelligent motors” among them – this is the general director, general designer of Novator Pavel Kamenev. He is deservedly – Hero of Labor of Russia and twice laureate of the State Prize.
Among the creators of “Caliber” (or rather, the rocket engine) and the former director of the plant “Saturn” (Rybinsk) Yuri Lastochkin. According to him, Vladimir Putin is also involved in the fate of Caliber.