2 Responses to “PUTIN THREAT: NUKE ISIS”

1. Steve Wittlake
   December 9th, 2015 @ 12:04 pm

   https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/putin-has-threatened-to-use-nuclear-weapons-against-isis-but-hopes-they-will-never-be-needed-a6766196.html

   Putin raises possibility of using nuclear weapons against terrorists – but hopes they ‘will never need’ them

   Leader says new cruise missiles can be equipped with nuclear warheads and conventional warheads

   Vladimir Putin has said he hopes nuclear warheads will not be needed to deal with terrorists, after Russia launched cruise missiles from its submarine at Syria.

   During a meeting in the Kremlin, Russia’s Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu told the President that Kalibr cruise missiles had been fired by the submerged Rostov-on-Don submarine from the Mediterranean Sea for the first time.

   He said TU-22 bombers also took part in the latest raids and that “significant damage” had been done to a munitions depot, a factory manufacturing mortar rounds and oil facilities. Two major targets in Raqqa, the defacto capital of Isis, had been hit, said Mr Shoigu.

   President Putin said the new cruise missiles could also be equipped with nuclear warheads – but that he hoped they would never need them.

   He said: “With regard to strikes from a submarine. We certainly need to analyse everything that is happening on the battlefield, how the weapons work. Both the [Kalibr] missiles and the Kh-101 rockets are generally showing very good results. We now see that these are new, modern and highly effective high-precision weapons that can be equipped either with conventional or special nuclear warheads.”

   “Naturally, we do not need that in fighting terrorists, and I hope we will never need it. But overall, this speaks to our significant progress in terms of improving weaponry and equipment being supplied to the Russian army and navy.”

   Mr Shoigu said Israel and the US had been informed before the strikes were launched.

   Russia’s air campaign has been taking place since 30 September.

   Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov later sought to temper any suggestion the country would use nuclear weapons on terrorists.

   “Of course not, and the president has stated this, that there is no need to use any nuclear weapons against terrorists, as they can be defeated through conventional means, and this is fully in line with our military doctrine,” he said.

2. Courage
   December 10th, 2015 @ 6:56 am

   February 2012. Russian young people flash mob to “Puttin’ on the Ritz”…
   The dancing is filmed (26 Feb 2012) on Moscow’s “overlook” in Sparrow Hills.
   Looking down from the “overlook” you see the largest stadium in Russia
   (140K capacity).
   The ski jump is for practice and training – if you make a mistake, you
   end up in the  river below.
   The church at the end opposite to the ski jump is Holy Trinity Russian
   Orthodox Church, and it’s beautiful.
   The large building on the opposite side of the road beside the overlook
   is the Moscow State University
   and the top of the tall center tower has one of the Kremlin stars.
   Try and not smile as you watch this – you will. It is a nice, gentle
   clip.  “Putting on the Ritz”, in Moscow, no less!
   What a crazy, delightful, ever changing world!  Who could have thought
   that in 2012 young people in Moscow
   would put on a “flash mob” happening, dancing to an 83 year old American
   song, written by a Russian-born American Jew, Irving Berlin?

   Sound ON!
   https://www.youtube.com/embed/KgoapkOo4vg?rel=0

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