So first off, I don’t like the headline. All US subs are nuclear, but this feels like burying the story: parking an SSBN at South Korea is a very specific message. It carries 20 Trident II missiles, each capable of carry 8 475kt warheads (but likely only armed with 4 due to treaty limitations).
38 Megatons of independently targetable nuclear destruction.
That said, the story also talks about how this will drive KJU from the table - as if he was ever there in the first place. Given the state of their current activities, I don’t think reminding him that he’s fucking around with a country that worked out nuclear delivery via ICBM half a century ago is overly aggressive.
IMO, at some point, someone (and I’m not saying the US necessarily) is going to have to go in and depose the regime and integrate the population into modern society. North Korea is a bigger threat to world stability than Russia, and today that’s really saying something.
Russia may threaten and posture the use of nuclear weapons, and have started a losing war with their neighbor, but it’s far less likely that they would actually use the weapons. Even if Putin ordered it there’s a lot of people between him and the weapons that could prevent the use. He’s a dictator but barely, he needs to keep the oligarchs happy to keep his office, and the oligarchs don’t want to live out the rest of their lives in cramped bunkers in Siberia when the earth is irradiated. DPRK on the other hand is an actual dictatorship, with few people between Kim and a launch, and is actually unstable enough to do it. Also, with their carelessness around their “test launches” they’re much more likely to cause an international incident by dropping a half-fueled rocket stage on Japan.
Didn't the plants all get safely shut down before the Russians got there? If so, they can't cause a meltdown unless they actually try to start the reactors.
Not to say they can't cause something bad to happen, especially since they are storing munitions in there but it wouldn't be a meltdown. I would assume fuel material wouldn't get thrown as far/the core wouldn't be compromised but that would take someone more knowledgable than me on this.
Didn’t the plants all get safely shut down before the Russians got there? If so, they can’t cause a meltdown unless they actually try to start the reactors.
Are the shutdown? Yes. Safely? Definitely not. The type of reactor they are and the fuel they use, requires active cooling as it remains hot for years.
Zaporizhzhia is the plant in question, and it’s water supply is in jeopardy after the destruction of the Kakhovka dam.
With the plant not in active operation, it’s unlikely we’d see an incident on the level of Chernobyl but it’s far from safe.
How would you feel if you were a South Korean? Knowing that your brothers to the North want to kill or conquer you simply because they’re not happy with the half of the continent they chose because, ultimately, the US was a better development partner than Russia and China?
A large convoy of suspected Wagner fighters has arrived from Russia at a new camp in Belarus, new satellite images reveal. BBC Verify’s analysis shows dozens of vehicles entering the camp at Tsel, a disused military base in southern Belarus - about 64 miles (103km) from the capital Minsk.
It’s not uncommon for cases to just be left open for decades, and it is common for cases that have been left open for decades to be randomly picked back up when some new method of investigation can be used or new evidence found, sometimes leading to arrests for crimes comitted even 40 years ago.
I doubt someone has been actively investigating the case for the last 27 years, but murder has no statute of limitations so there isn’t any reason to close the case until it’s solved.
Orlando anderson’s uncle Keefe D said they were in the car and Anderson was the shooter. Anderson was in an altercation that night with Pac and death row over a stolen chain. They were crips and death row were mob pirus bloods. It was just some gangbanger shit unfortunately. Anderson was later killed in another altercation.
lol, do it anyway. let’s see russia hike its troops all the way to the southern tip of Africa. Putin can barely muster enough fighters and ammo for one war on his own border. let’s see him try to fight another one half a planet away, lmao. it might as well be in space-- at least there are some russians there already! 🤣
The thing about mercenaries is that they will only fight so long as they’re getting paid. Nobody wants rubles, so they would expect currency conversion, and this is while the Russian economy is in the toilet. Russia also has a bad history in terms of keeping their word even if you could trust that the country weren’t in a spiral, so most PMCs aren’t exactly gonna get excited for any deal that doesn’t include payment upfront. If Putin is jailed, I think we’re more likely to see a power vacuum in Moscow than people scrambling to free him and go to war against South Africa. Putin only has power so long as he is surrounded by protectors loyal to him. I’m not sure any of them are that loyal to him at this point. He’s fucked the country with this invasion, and he’s getting old, and the rumor is that he’s very sick and possibly terminal, but that part could be propaganda designed to get loyalists to second guess their allegiance.
Although, to be fair, Russians haven’t exactly made a lot of good decisions lately, so maybe there are enough ignorant dumbasses in the region to decide to go to war. Devout nationalists might continue to fight despite empty bellies, but they won’t fight well.
Maybe they’ll bring along some of that grain that they don’t want to allow through the Black Sea. Putin claimed with his big heart that Russia would not let Africa starve after all.
Yeah but that’s literally thousands of miles away. It would take Wagner weeks of driving from Sudan to get to South Africa, and then they would get blown to pieces.
Likely, but there is an international arrest warrant for him, so South Africa should arrest him themselves. But it’s well known that rules doesn’t apply to nuclear powers, so Putin will be free…
It seems you’re not really familar with what’s happening in Africa right now and I can’t fault you for that because Western media has been terrible about reporting about what we’re doing to Africa. (Please excuse me if I’m completely off here, I can only go with what you provided thus far.)
According to my research a lot of countries on the African continent are actively working towards dedollarization by building independent central bank transfer infrastructure to finally get rid of the shackles of Western neo-colonial soft power and China/Russia/BRICS are a god-sent for them.
And thinking that Putin doesn’t have influence (and thus, he has to pretend otherwise) is kinda… ignorant?
While there has been a lot of talk in Africa about dedollarisation to my knowledge only Zimbabwe went though with it as of now and to mixed results at best. BRICS been stuck since it’s inception as they can’t even agree on what currency they want to use.
While they do look at China and Russia positively as it’s very beneficial for them at the moment they also try to avoid going all in with either side as to not alienate the west.
Well if you look around, all the Russia’s allies are mad at them. They refused to help Armenia with Azerbaijan so they turned to Iran and India, Turkey who were always neutral to Russia shifted more to EU/NATO, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan are both looking for different military partners as Russia refused to back either side, Kazakhstan is looking to Turkey instead of Russia, and many more examples. So, no I’m not ignorant. He’s loosing the influence he used to have and focusing on Africa who like you said are eager to take the money is just him trying to pretent he’s still in control.
It’s more like we made promises we didn’t keep (like transferring financial aid, investments in infrastructure projects, etc) and instead Western countries still bleed part of Africa’s economy dry and I can understand that they’re fed up with it. I only hope that China and Russia won’t just be a wolf in sheep’s disguise, since they’re also imperialist and it’d be naive to expect them to help Africa become a strong contender to their economies.
African nations would be better off to continue pushing for an African Union and bring collective bargaining power when dealing with the new and old colonists.
Well, there are plans to create a SWIFT alternative (?)/digital currency for African nations to trade between themselves. They’re not simply relying on BRICS, it would seem.
The EU is South Africa’s most important development partner. Its €281 million bilateral cooperation programme is reinforced by grants for thematic focal areas. Further, the European Investment Bank makes available €462 million in long-term loans.
bbc.co.uk
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