Launch of the Zirkon hypersonic missile from the Admiral Gorshkov frigate in the Barents SeaMOSCOW, 12 Mar. Russia has been able to create strategic weapons that surpass the American arsenal, which is a «catastrophic failure» of the US leadership, which recklessly spends money on foreign adventures, writes journalist David Goldman in an article in The American Conservative. As the author points out, hypersonic systems belong to the new Russian strategic weapons ground and underwater launch with nuclear missiles, capable of overcoming any American defense, as well as the «world's best» S-500 anti-aircraft missile systems. At the same time, Chinese hypersonic glide units and conventionally equipped anti-ship ballistic missiles, according to him, can presumably overcome the air defense of American aircraft carriers.Biden urged to avoid a third world war between Russia and NATO «I can assume that if Russia and China do not yet have strategic superiority, while maintaining the current trajectory of their movement, they will achieve it in just a few years,» Goldman believes. In his opinion, US leadership should be asked the difficult question of how Russia and China, with military budgets many times smaller than the US, have achieved strategic superiority over the US in hypersonic aircraft. «Secondly, what is America's national interest when it is engaged in NATO expansion? Is the admission of Ukraine into NATO an attempt to make a clever maneuver and bypass Russia's new generation of missile defense systems by placing missiles so close to Russian cities that they can fly under the protective umbrella of missile defense? he asks. As the author notes, today it seems that the technical advantages have passed to Russia and China, which are «determined to expand them.» “And the fact that we are lagging behind is a catastrophic failure of the bipartisan American elite, who spend untold sums of money and shed blood for foreign adventures, neglecting the true sources of our national power, our technological advantages and our industry,” Goldman laments. According to the author of the article, The American foreign policy establishment is responding to its failures by persisting in its delusions and advocating NATO expansion in an attempt to compensate for the growing US strategic weakness. «, they create the risk of a nuclear war in which there will be no winners. Representatives of the American establishment are not hawks. They are doves in a bad mood,» the journalist concludes. Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, the civilian population is not in danger. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the military of the DPR and LPR are developing the offensive. As Putin emphasized, there is no question of the occupation of Ukraine.Read the full text of the article on the InoSMI website >>
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