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Old 03-20-2022, 09:49 PM
 
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Does it bother Americans that Russia developed a powerful fast weapon, that the U.S. doesn't have or can't stop? Putin is not afraid of using it, and he is shoving it, in our faces.
Is it a terrorist fear weapon, like Hitler's V-2 rocket? Will it break the will of the Ukrainian people?
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Old 03-20-2022, 09:54 PM
 
Location: Elysium
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Does it bother Americans that Russia developed a powerful fast weapon, that the U.S. doesn't have or can't stop? Putin is not afraid of using it, and he is shoving it, in our faces.
Is it a terrorist fear weapon, like Hitler's V-2 rocket? Will it break the will of the Ukrainian people?
It was not used to terrorize Ukrainians, it was to terrorize NATO telling them that the existing Reagan Star Wars weapons are useless so don't get in Russia's way.

For the Ukrainians it is just another building being destroyed there just isn't opportunity for counter battery fire or shooting down one of the attacking aircraft
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Old 03-20-2022, 10:11 PM
 
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Blah blah blah....we never would have stopped all the Russian nukes anyway.

Furthermore, they could literally end the world as we know it just detonating them on Russian soil and causing Nuclear winter for years.

The end. Thanks for coming out folks, I'm Capt. Obvious, be sure to tip your server.
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Old 03-20-2022, 10:16 PM
 
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Russia is actually terrified of what the USA can do to them. The difference between the USA and Russia/China is that those countries make wild claims about their military capabilities with big military parades with plastic weapons that look real being towed around.

The USA keeps things secret and even under-report the performance of their weapons.
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Old 03-20-2022, 11:13 PM
 
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Is it a terrorist fear weapon, like Hitler's V-2 rocket?
A resource drain with little actual impact? The point could be made...
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Old 03-20-2022, 11:27 PM
 
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We were testing hypersonic missiles well before the Russians or Chinese. However we decided they weren't really necessary because neither of them could interact the ballistic missiles of the time.

Even now, our biggest issue isn't coming up with hypersonic missiles to match their's, but coming up with ways to intercept their's.
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Old 03-20-2022, 11:34 PM
 
Location: Metro Detroit, Michigan
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What concerns me is the possibility of them using this on civilians. Of course, I am just as concerned about all the other weapons being used against civilians. Putin's war is a disgusting, unnecessary mess and unfortunately, civilians are suffering unspeakable horrors as a result.
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Old 03-21-2022, 04:22 AM
 
Location: Great Britain
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Does it bother Americans that Russia developed a powerful fast weapon, that the U.S. doesn't have or can't stop? Putin is not afraid of using it, and he is shoving it, in our faces.
Is it a terrorist fear weapon, like Hitler's V-2 rocket? Will it break the will of the Ukrainian people?
The US has hypersonic missiles, as for some of the claims made by Russia regarding weapon systems, they are often grossly exaggerated.
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Old 03-21-2022, 04:54 AM
 
Location: NJ
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Putin goading US into war while China gives us the coup de grace.

thank biden, big tech and most of all the mainstream media and corrupt insurrectionist intel agencies and dem legislators.

Biden is compromised, he must be removed.

Ukraine was the chip on putin's shoulder he dared to US to knock off.

Putin knows in the current world order he has no place on earth. Putin is banking on the destruction of the US in cooperation with china.

a corrupt election, democrat insurrectionists protecting their cash flow, left wing social justice warriors who can't tell a male form a female and don't know which bathroom to use have destroyed the country by placing biden and harris in the oval office.

The well has been poisoned by the biden admin open border policy seemingly to help Putin and China defeat a divided nation.
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Old 03-21-2022, 06:47 AM
 
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A resource drain with little actual impact? The point could be made...
Given Europes track record, I'd say that nukes prevented WW3 and by now, probably WW4. So looking at the costs of WW1 and WW2....probably a bargain.
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