“Does Russia want Ukraine to become the bloodlands of a World War 3- have NATO and the United States come in there and then use 10-to-1 advantage in tactical nuclear weapons as a final solution to the problem with NATO and the United States?” Pry said in reply to an audience question. had whole regiments run away from the Russians to lure them into attacking him on the Austerlitz battlefield, and then he dropped the hammer. “I keep thinking of the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805-Napoleon’s greatest victory where he managed to get the combined armies of Austria and Russia to attack him by feigning weakness. “When I look at what the Russians are doing, you know, it’s almost like they are taking steps that are calculated to be provocative to the West and to get us to intervene in that war,” Pry said. has the fewest warheads for its intercontinental ballistic missiles out of all three legs of the nuclear triad-400 total for its 400 Minuteman IIIs. “That’s why, for example, most of their warheads ICBMs” which can carry up to 10 warheads, Pry said. To be able to beat us to the draw and strike us. Their nuclear triad of ballistic missiles, submarines, ICBMs, and bombers is designed to fight and win a nuclear war-particularly to achieve a surprise attack. “Our strategic triad of bombers, missiles, and submarines is designed to deter nuclear war. traid as basically the same, and they are not,” he continued. “Most Americans think of the Russian triad and the U.S. When I served in the CIA, we knew that the Russian strategic posture is very different from ours,” Pry said. Pry said he thinks “the Intelligence Community is smart enough to know that. Russia’s “ICBM command and control arrangement is such that we can’t see those forces mobilizing because they are on a condition the Russians call ‘constant combat readiness.’ All the time, they’re ready to launch … Twenty-four/seven, 365 days a year, Vladimir Putin could push a button and launch most of his nuclear weapons in just a few minutes without any advanced preparation.” would know an attack was about to happen. has positioned itself to deter a nuclear war, Russia has prepared to wage a surprise attack. “We did not deem the test to be a threat to the United States or its allies,” Kirby said.ĭuring the Mitchell event, however, Pry questioned whether Russia’s President Vladimir Putin may have become emboldened by the direction of the U.S.’s nuclear posture over the past 30 years: Whereas the U.S. Kirby said April 20 that the test was “routine and not a surprise,” confirming that Russia had “properly notified the United States under its New START treaty obligations.” The discussion took place just one day after Russia’s military said it tested its new nuclear-capable Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile, which, according to The Associated Press, Putin said would give the West pause. Deptula, dean of AFA’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, during a livestreamed Nuclear Deterrence and Missile Defense Forum on April 21. Nuclear Strategy Forum, spoke to retired Lt. Peter Pry, who is also director of Congress’ U.S. The whole point of Russia’s war in Ukraine could be to drag the West into World War 3, said the executive director of Congress’ Task Force on National and Homeland Security.
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