Breaking the Russian blockade is clearly a red herring, because Russia can enforce the blockade with aircraft, submarines, or missiles launched from Crimea. More likely, Ukraine will use such missiles to blow up Russian refineries and the Druzhba pipeline (NSM has a land attack mode). How would Russia have to respond?
What are the ramifications of the US sending cruise missiles to Ukraine?
Matthew Sanders
Josiah Wright
What, a hundred billion dollars wasnt enough for those faggots?
Ryan Carter
The US Congress just passed $40 billion to fund support for Ukraine for 4 months. Extrapolating from that, the US alone will pay $120 billion per year for support to Ukraine.
Cameron Evans
For comparison, the US federal discretionary budget was $1300 billion, the most recent year the US had a normal budget. So $120 billion would be 9% of the federal discretionary budget.
Tyler Walker
*in 2019
Oliver Wilson
It just seems fucked up we give all that money away for nothing; and simutaneously do nothing to fight inflation for the country that earned that money.
Christian Baker
Hohols are really good at getting people to hate them. I hope Putin gets frustrated and just nukes those jews into shadows.
Parker Clark
Russia will flip out if this gets sunk.
Nathaniel Thomas
> Everyday a bit closer to Fallout
> Collection bottle caps
> Byuing books
> Storing seeds
> Waiting for civilization to hard restart
Gabriel Price
Why would they need it when they have Crimea? Is it even in a condition for deployment? I thought they mostly just kept it around as a glorified training ship to keep naval aviation skills alive until the day Russia can afford to build a proper aircraft carrier.
Nolan Bennett
>That filename
Owen Brooks
Russia is so beyond fucked at this point I don't even know how to explain it.
Zachary Powell
Just noticed something
>British carriers: look nice, clean and maintained
>French carrier: look nice, clean and maintained
>US carriers: look nice, clean and maintained
>Chinese carriers: look nice, clean and maintained
>Russia's aircraft carrier: looks dirty, neglected, rusty, like it will fall apart at any moment
Jonathan Clark
>MONKEYPOX
Anthony Ward
Which is more than the entire Russian military budget.
Wyatt Taylor
Is Russia the only ones fucked? It seems to me like the logical retaliatory response by Russia would be to send a submarines to commerce raid transatlantic shipping. Otherwise this will end with the US giving Ukraine land-launched Tomahawk missiles with the Kremlin's coordinates preprogrammed into the flight computer.
Adrian Bennett
That hunk of garbage is still in refit and not expected to relaunch for sea trials until mid 2023. That is if they can keep her from catching fire, again. She didn’t even go into dry dock until today, months behind schedule.
Eli Richardson
Russia now has a clear incentive to seize the entire Ukrainian coastline, and hold it, in perpetuity. Great move, globohomo!
Joseph Jenkins
Carriers and aircraft are the past, only the USA still thinks its real military power.
Remember the USA thought battleships were a projection of power in WWII until Japan destroyed them all at Pearl Harbor.
Russia focuses on missiles and drones, and they will devastate the USA military because America has no real missile defense, its all piecemeal at best, repurposed old hardware from the 1970s not meant to take out ballistic missiles.
Brayden Long
Russia will have no choice but to destroy the NATO sattalites that operate these missles and drones.
Fuckhead escalators wont be happy till nukes launch.
Jack Russell
>How would Russia have to respond?
What do you expect them to do?
Russia is completely defenseless and toothless, supposed and dwindling nuclear stockpile is only reason why they are still on map. They will do nothing and take it like a good little bitch while loosing more men in war they had no hope of winning.
Anthony Anderson
ok cunt shill
washingtonpost.com
The most straightforward explanation is that Russia wanted to prove Nudol’s capabilities as an antisatellite weapon. Moscow has a long history of developing “co-orbital” antisatellite systems — effectively satellites that would attack other satellites. Russia also has the capability to jam other countries’ satellites without attacking them physically. With a successful interception, Russia has now confirmed its capability to launch missile attacks on satellites from the earth as well, in line with U.S., Indian and Chinese antisatellite capabilities.
Russian antisatellite weapons pose a threat to the extensive U.S. military satellite network — which carries out a wide variety of essential intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, navigation and communications tasks. Russia probably wants the ability to impair U.S. and allied military operations during a war by attacking or disrupting these satellites.
Gabriel Robinson
As an American I hope it ends up as more. War is great for our economy and taking down our mortal enemy without having to use a single soldier is pure gold. This is the only thing Biden is doing well. Stack 'em up
Nolan Perry
just checked.
seems cruise missils use topography maps not sattelites.
would fuck the drones though