{"id":41922,"date":"2018-12-23T07:58:21","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T12:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41922"},"modified":"2018-12-23T07:58:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-23T12:58:21","slug":"putin-warns-us-against-misadventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41922","title":{"rendered":"Putin warns US against misadventures"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/indianpunchline.com\/putin-warns-us-against-misadventures\/\">Putin warns US against misadventures<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_577\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-577 jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled\" src=\"https:\/\/indianpunchline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/putin.jpeg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indianpunchline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/putin.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/indianpunchline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/putin-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/indianpunchline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/putin-768x512.jpeg 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Russia\u2019s President Vladimir Putin addresses an extended meeting of the Russian Defence Ministry Board in the National Defence Management Centre in Moscow, Dec 18, 2018)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Russian President <a href=\"http:\/\/en.kremlin.ru\/events\/president\/news\/59431\">Vladimir Putin\u2019s address to an expanded meeting of the Defence Ministry Board<\/a> in Moscow on December 18 stands out as a tour d\u2019horizon of the global strategic balance. The speech must be seen against the backdrop of the free fall in US-Russia relations, build-up of NATO infrastructure on Russia\u2019s western borders and, in particular, the Trump administration\u2019s statements about the US withdrawing from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty of 1987.<\/p>\n<p>Broadly, Putin\u2019s message is in three directions:<\/p>\n<p><em>The modernization of Russian armed forces has been most successful and the combat readiness of Russian military is at an all-time high level;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Russia has developed new hypersonic weapons of immense destructive power, which are going into serial production for deployment with the strategic nuclear forces to which the US simply has no answer;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Russia is determined to ensure that any US attempts to tilt the strategic balance in its favor will be effectively countered.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Putin disclosed that the share of modern arms in Russia\u2019s \u201cnuclear triad\u201d (air, navy and ground forces) is already at an impressive level of 82 percent. He implied that all in all, the US is punching above its weight: \u201cThese weapons (unique state-of-the-art weapons such as the Avangard missile system, Sarmat missile, Kinzhal hypersonic air-launched ballistic missile, Peresvet combat laser weapons, etc.) will multiply the potential of our army and navy, thus reliably and absolutely ensuring Russia\u2019s security for decades ahead. These weapons are consolidating the balance of forces and, thus, international stability. I hope our new systems will provide food for thought to those who are used to militaristic and aggressive rhetoric.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putin warns US against misadventures (Russia\u2019s President Vladimir Putin addresses an extended meeting of the Russian Defence Ministry Board in the National Defence Management Centre in Moscow, Dec 18, 2018) The Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s address to an expanded meeting of the Defence Ministry Board in Moscow on December 18 stands out as a tour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23579,22461,23580,553,2583,694,827,857],"class_list":["post-41922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-indian-punchline","tag-intermediate-range-nuclear-forces-treaty","tag-misadventures","tag-nato","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-russia","tag-united-states","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41923,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41922\/revisions\/41923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}