Various news sites are reporting this.....Russian President Putin made a comment yesterday (Saturday) after his meeting with the Belarusian boss (Lukashenko)....over the next couple of months (probably before 2023)....Russia will hand over some Iskander-M (SS-26) missile systems. So, this particular system can be launched with nuke warheads, or cluster-bombs, or a fuel-air explosive, or a Earth penetrator bomb, or a EMP-type bomb.
How many of these? He kinda left this out. He also left out what type of munitions would be given (could be nukes....could be strictly fuel-air explosives. So you don't know that part of the story.
A big deal? It's consuming a fair amount of chatter.
Logically, this would draw a lot of talk from Germany, France, etc....to have a missile defense system. It'd also bring up nuclear warfare chatter a good bit.
Did Lukashenko ask for the weapons? You see....no one says that part of the story. I think he was a bit shocked at the meeting when a free 'gift' thing came up and it was the missiles.
Giving Lukashenko the nuke warheads? I just don't see that logic in the deal being fixed up.
My humble view....sometime in December....some ceremony will occur, and eight of these missile launchers with missiles arrive. It'll be a four-star pony-show, with people waving flags.
No comments:
Post a Comment