ANALYSIS – A warning to the West. This may fall under the category of too weird to be true, or it may be so weird it is true. If it is to be believed, Vladimir Putin plans to build two plywood replicas of Washington, D.C. and London on a large archipelago formerly used as a nuclear testing ground by the Soviet Union in the Arctic.
Then they would nuke them.
The reason? To warn the leaders of the United States and Great Britain and scare the pants off of millions of their citizens who will watch the destruction on YouTube and other online platforms.
The old Soviet Cold War nuclear test site, Novaya Zemlya is notorious for being ground zero for the most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated – the Tsar Bomba October 30, 1961. (RELATED: Will Russia Take Out Our Internet And GPS?)
As The Mirror reports: “The explosion was so large that it caused shockwaves that circled the Earth multiple times, and its mushroom cloud reached more than 37 miles into the sky.”
Putin aides have warned that the Western countries could cross Russian red lines that would provoke a nuclear response. London and D.C. are frequently the targets mentioned. As is Paris.
And Russia has the means to do it, as they have been modernizing and growing their nuclear forces for over a decade.
The current bizarre claim to nuke to fake Western capitals comes from a well-known Kremlin insider, Alexei Mikhailov, head of the Bureau of Political-Military Analysis, on Russian state TV.
The Mirror reports:
The harebrained scheme is to “build a replica of London on Novaya Zemlya [nuclear-testing island in the Arctic] … And Washington, the centre …the White House, this central part. And we’re going to do an exercise.”
This would involve the submarine launch of a Bulava missile from a submarine in the Atlantic towards Novaya Zemlya. The plywood Washington and London would be hit with “more than 150 kilotons of TNT equivalent”, said Mikhailov, suggesting this would be a warning that would force Western governments to stop arming Ukraine, so handing victory to Russia. On YouTube let three billion YouTube users see what it looks like to destroy the capital of Britain and the United States, with just one warhead out of 10 that are part of each Bulava.”
Meanwhile, Kremlin propagandist host Vladimir Solovyov suggested Russia would employ its resident foreigners to do the construction. (RELATED: Blaze Media Fires Lauren Chen Over Allegations Of Taking Kremlin Cash)
The Mirror notes:
Thousands of migrants, who now do not want to leave our country, will erect the City Centre out of plywood,” insisted Mikhailov. “There will be Buckingham Palace and Big Ben. It will all go up in blue flames and fly so beautifully that the world will be horrified.”
The new submarine-launched Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile went into service earlier this year. The 40ft rocket, with an estimated 5,160-mile range, can carry six-to-ten individually guided nuclear warheads which can strike multiple targets. It is seen as the cornerstone in the naval part of Russia’s land-sea-air nuclear triad.
Whether Moscow decides this is worth the effort to do all this or not is yet to be seen. But I’m sure Hollywood would offer to do it with CGI much cheaper and faster.
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Intimidation at it’s finest. He’s playing chess, with millions of lives in the balance.