Putin: We'll target USA if Washington deploys missiles in Europe - Polidicks

https://www.dw.com/image/47596716_303.jpg MOSCOW, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Russia will respond to any deployment of intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe by targeting not only the countries where those missiles are stationed, but the United States itself, President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday. In his annual address to parliament, Putin said Russia was not seeking confrontation and would not take the first step to deploy missiles in response to the U.S. withdrawal from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. But he said that Russia’s reaction to any deployment would be resolute and that U.S. policy-makers should calculate the risks before taking any steps. (Reporting by Moscow Bureau Editing by Andrew Osborn) Source.

Oh boy, the long awaited sequel to Cuban Crisis. targeting not only the countries where those missiles are stationed, but the United States itself Send those nuke over here. Sarajevo thirsts for some Tiberium Wars.

they're all ICBM capable missiles, to do so would just weaken your force by putting them closer to our troops

Meaningless words. Top tip: they're already targeting the US. Also lol at the claim they won't deploy missiles first. They've already done it.

I feel like the current administration of the US is incapable of resolving the clearly reemerging cold war with Russia, and that this will be the single largest foreign policy talking point during their presidential election.

Aren't SLBM already a thing? Why is land deployment a big deal when we can already launch nukes from pretty much anywhere in the ocean?

russia's slbm force is not nearly as effective as the US's one is. All this posturing comes against the backdrop of the US modernizing its nukes over the next 15 years while russia is still declining as a country and needs to stay relevant

The administration that is almost certainly compromised by Russia itself? You don't say!

If there's anything that we know 100%, its that Trump would take shit like this as a challenge to out-brute

but these weapons exist explicitly to wipe each other's capitals off the map. If he wants to point mrbm's in europe at washington I guess he can do that but he's already got icbms pointed at washington as we have icbms pointed at moscow, its all a show.

"But" nothing, do you think Trump cares or understands consequences? out-shitposting Putin like he did Kim is the kind of logic he'd use to deal with it

It has to do with cost. If we use cold war prices for example a INF-violating nuclear system like the US GLCM would cost US$700k for the warhead (I can track down the exact source for that number if you want) plus another US$1.5m for a tomahawk cruise missile for it to go into. Maybe another million for a launcher that can carry 4 missiles. On the other hand a Trident II missile costs about US$50m, each warhead probably cost US$1m to 2m (I don't have an exact source, but SLBM warheads are very high performance, squeezing out every kilogram they can, so an estimate twice to three times the price of a lower performance warhead is reasonable) carrying eight, and the sub they go in costs US$4b or so carrying 24 missiles. So each warhead costs US$1m-2m in actual warhead, US$6.25m in launcher vehicle and US$21m in submarine.

Everybody is pretty much closing the cep gap, Russua's slbm force itself is fairly light, they have about 4 or 5 subs capable of launching missiles and the russian navy isn't exactly world renown for its effectiveness either.

The article explicitly says the deployment of intermediate range missiles, not ICBMs.

they're taking missiles with ranges capable of hitting the US, stripping off a stage and calling it an irbm, they even reuse the same mobile launch vehicle, and again it doesn't really mean anything when they already have more armored icbm's deep inside russia that can do the exact same job without being exposed to enemy airpower

I need to move.