The last argument of the president

In June, two versions of Vladimir Putin were presented almost simultaneously. The option for domestic use could be seen during the television "straight line". It was a kind wizard who once a year corrects what he had bolen by him, the trolls-officials: closes the landfills, repair the roads, returns pensions and treats the deadly sick. He says practically nothing about the military affairs. Putin PRarters are well aware: for the Russian layman, protection against local heads is much more important than defense from a mythical external aggressor.

But in the export version, proposed in the four episodes of Oliver Stone, Putin only does what he discusses about the military strategy. And this is also natural: military power has become today the main (if not the only) foreign policy instrument of Russia.

Worship "Balance of Forces"

It is hardly worth a lot of time to discuss Putin's “alternative facts”. It seems that Russian military intervention in Crimea did not affect the position of the local parliament. The fact that some people captured the Crimean Rada building and then “helped” several elected deputies to formulate “correct” issues for the referendum against the constitution - this is already enough to adequately assess the Putin interpretation of what happened on the peninsula three more years ago.

The views formulated by the Russian leader are not to geopolitics. Answering the questions of Stone, Putin all the time returns to the idea that Moscow should maintain a military balance with the West by any means. The chief Russian boss is confident that the insidious US is trying to destroy this very balance in different ways - deploying a missile defense system, accepting new states in the North Atlantic Alliance, etc. “We will save this strategic balance. Balance is a very important thing, ”says the owner of the Kremlin, removing American scientists who, in order to ensure this balance of power, transferred the US atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.

At the same time, neither Putin nor Stone decrypt what exactly is this balance.

In fact, if you call a spade a spade, this is the ability of Moscow and Washington to destroy each other (and at the same time the rest of the planet) in the atomic war. It is no coincidence that the interviewer’s question whether the United States is aware of the Russian nuclear power, Putin verbally discusses how Washington underestimated this power: “It seems to me that our partners at one time believed that Russia would not be able to respond to the challenges abandoned on their part, due to the state of certain industries, as well as due to underfunding of scientific research. As well as a number of other considerations. But today, as I think, everyone was convinced that Russia is not only able to answer this challenge, but also that Russia, without a doubt, will do it. ”

In a striking way, how exactly Russia intends to answer today to the US nuclear challenge, the famous film Kubrick “Dr. Streinzhlav, or how I stopped being afraid and fell in love with a bomb”, is told for half a century. Stone demonstrated him to Putin, clearly wanting to “warm up” the interviewee. And I was not mistaken. In this satirical phantasmagoria, we remind, humanity dies as a result of the explosion of the “cobalt-thori” bomb, which was driven by the controlled computer “Doomsday machine”, which automatically works if at least one atomic bomb explodes in Soviet territory. It is impossible to turn off the car. Putin literally and seriously perceives this satire: “You know, there are things here that really make you think about something, because with all the fantasticity of what we see on the screen, there are things that are quite serious, warning of real dangers. He guessed some things ( Kubrick. - NT) even from a technical point of view ... since then little has changed. The only difference is that modern weapons systems have become more complicated, and this idea of ​​a weapon of retaliation and the inability to manage this system from some point-they are quite relevant for today. It has become even more complicated and even more dangerous. ”

If the Russian management centers are destroyed by the American first blow, the perimeter system, the command post of which is hidden somewhere in the Uralmsk mountains, is able to launch Russian missiles in automatic mode

Indeed, in today's Russia, they are quite seriously preparing to implement the scenarios of the Day of Judgment. Recall that the statement of the television propagandist Dmitry Kiselev that Russia was able to turn the United States into a radioactive ash pushed back from a note in the “Russian newspaper”. And there it was told about the real, not a fantastic system of nuclear retaliation-the Perimeter system, the command post of which is hidden somewhere in the Ural Mountains. If the Russian control centers are destroyed by the American first blow, the “perimeter” is able to launch Russian missiles in automatic mode. A little later, the publications in the Rossiyskaya Gazeta two federal television channels "by mistake" demonstrated some "slides" contained in the report of the military Putin. It followed that weapons “Status 6” were created, the purpose of which is “defeat important facilities of the enemy’s economy in the coast and caused guaranteed unacceptable damage to the country by creating extensive radioactive infection, which is unsuitable for the implementation of military, economic and other activities in these zones for a long time.”

From the inscriptions on the Slide, it followed that the secret weapon is a certain torpedo that is capable of developing a speed of 100 km/h at a depth of 1000 m. According to experts, such drones with megaton class warheads will be launched immediately after the American missile attack in order to reach the USA in the USA in a radioactive desert. Did this project in mind Putin when I told Stone that the Russian answer to the deployment of about will be “more loaded”?

Phantoms pro

Stone's film confirms that the US withdrawal in 2001 from the contract for restriction of missile defense systems (an APC agreement) signed with the USSR back in 1972, became a serious psychological trauma for Putin. The Russian leader once again stated that “the contract was the cornerstone of the entire international security system” and that, having emerged from it and having begun to create a missile defense system, the United States tried to achieve military superiority: “There is even a certain threat ... The threat may be created even an illusion of protection. And this can lead to more aggressive behavior. ” At the same time, Vladimir Putin does not explain at all why faced with such treachery, the Kremlin signed not one, but two agreements on reducing strategic offensive weapons-in 2002 and 2010. Indeed, if we accept on faith the theory that Washington is sleeping and sees how to deliver the first blow and intercept with the help of those Russian missiles that can be launched in a response impact, it is not clear why the Kremlin went to reduce its missiles.

If we accept the theory that Washington is sleeping and sees how to deliver the first blow and intercept with the help of those Russian missiles that will be able to launch in a response impact, it is not clear why the Kremlin went to reduce their missiles

In fact, irritation due to the exit of the Americans from the software agreement is not caused by a military threat. Putin is outraged that the Americans abandoned the agreement, which determined the privileged, even unique position of Russia. While the software agreement was acting, he recorded that Russia, firstly, is a state that can destroy the most powerful country in the world, and this country is forced to agree with this situation.

When Stone asks what dangers come from the pro, Putin says frank lie. In particular, he claims that the United States is stirring its bases in Eastern European countries, they want to destroy Russian missiles at the accelerated stage of the trajectory. Meanwhile, back in 2009, the US Congress stopped financing all interception work at the accelerated stage. No tests were carried out on this subject. In the same way, the Americans have never tried for testing purposes to launch winged missiles from the installations of interceptor missiles, which is another source of the Kremlin's fears. However, it cannot be ruled out that the Putin's security forces simply did not consider it necessary to inform the boss about the real state of affairs. Just as they slipped Putin a fake video of a successful strike on terrorists.

Thus, the military threat emanating from the pro does not exist at all. According to the calculations of the Russian General Staff, to destroy one warhead you will need at least two interceptor missiles. At the same time, the famous Russian expert Vladimir Dvorkin writes, it was not taken into account that each warhead would fly in a “cloud” of false targets. In this case, 10–20 interceptors will be required to destroy it. Currently, the United States has 40 interceptor missiles. Which will ensure the destruction at best 20, in the worst - four or two Russian warheads. It remains to recall that Russia has 1550 warheads with 523 strategic media. Therefore, only the heroes of the film Kubrick could have thought to try in practice to destroy the first blow to no less than 500 terrestrial enemy missiles and missiles deployed on submarines, as well as strategic bombers, and then try to seize those rockets that the enemy will have. The American military leaders, unlike Kubrick's characters, presumably have more rational thinking.

Currently, the United States has 40 interceptor missiles. Which will ensure the destruction at best 20, in the worst - four or two Russian warheads. Meanwhile, Russia has 1550 warheads with 523 strategic media. Only the heroes of the film Kubrick could have thought to try to destroy in practice the first blow to no less than 500 enemy terrestrial missiles and missiles deployed on submarines, as well as strategic bombers, and then try to intercept those rockets that the enemy will remain

In fact, Putin is not worried about Putin. He is bothering something else - what if American efforts in the field of about will lead to the fact that the fear of the nuclear potential of Moscow will decrease. And this, in turn, will lead to the fact that the Kremlin’s ability to influence international affairs will decrease. After all, there are almost no other influence tools, except for the military. Therefore, Putin loves a bomb so much ...