{"id":183107,"date":"2015-03-12T19:38:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T00:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/03\/12\/this-sh-just-got-real-2\/"},"modified":"2015-03-12T19:38:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T00:38:00","slug":"this-sh-just-got-real-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/03\/12\/this-sh-just-got-real-2\/","title":{"rendered":"This Sh%$ Just Got Real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/DCWeZgb.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/DCWeZgb.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a>Thank you Victoria Nuland.  You got your <strike>coup<\/strike> color revolution you wanted, and now the Russians are making noises about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/03\/11\/us-russia-crimea-nuclear-idUSKBN0M710N20150311\">deploying nuclear weapons to the Crimea<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Russia has the right to deploy nuclear arms in the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which Moscow annexed from Ukraine last year, a Foreign Ministry official said on Wednesday, adding he knew of no plans to do so.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t know if there are nuclear weapons there now. I don&#8217;t know about any plans, but in principle Russia can do it,&#8221; said Mikhail Ulyanov, the head of the ministry&#8217;s department on arms control, was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note that it&#8217;s about 1500 miles from Sevastopol to Birmingham is around 1500 miles, so if the Russians just stationed an SSBN there with its 6000+ mile range missiles, a launch could be made covering all of Europe on a depressed trajectory giving something around 5 minutes warning.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, they could also just drive the mobile version of their Topol missile there as well.<\/p>\n<p>Poking the bear with a stick is not a smart foreign policy move.<\/p>\n<p>It really does not feel me with confidence that the US Government&#8217;s foreign and military policy establishment is filled with people who take hubris to this level.<\/p>\n<p>This is nuclear weapons, not tiddly winks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you Victoria Nuland. You got your coup color revolution you wanted, and now the Russians are making noises about deploying nuclear weapons to the Crimea: Russia has the right to deploy nuclear arms in the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which Moscow annexed from Ukraine last year, a Foreign Ministry official said on Wednesday, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1078,964,1040,1180,1044,1033],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disaster","category-foreign-relations","category-former-soviet-union","category-missiles","category-nuclear-weapons","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}