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The Pentagon postponed a planned test this week of a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) amid signs of nuclear tensions with Russia.

"Today, I want to talk a little bit about something that we are not going to do," Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said during a Wednesday press briefing. "And I want to explain why last weekend, as you saw, President Putin directed a special alert of Russian nuclear forces."

Last week, Putin ordered the Russian defense minister and the chief of the military's general staff to put the nuclear deterrent forces in a "special regime of combat duty." The move signals tensions could boil over into a nuclear war.
"Now, in this time of heightened tensions, the United States and other members of the international community rightly saw this as a dangerous and irresponsible — and as I've said before — an unnecessary step," Kirby continued.

"Both the United States and Russia have long agreed that nuclear employment could have devastating consequences," Kirby added. He noted the two nations recently agreed that nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.
"Such provocative rhetoric and possible changes to nuclear posture involving the most consequential weapons in our respective arsenals is unacceptable," Kirby said.

Kirby said Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has postponed the planned ICBM test "in an effort to demonstrate we have no intention in engaging in any actions that can be misunderstood or misconstrued.

"And we did not take this decision lightly, but instead to demonstrate that we are a responsible nuclear power."

Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., condemned the Pentagon's decision as "disappointing," describing the ICBM test as "critical to ensure our nuke deterrent stays effective."

"Deterrence means projecting strength & resolve – not sacrificing readiness for hollow gestures," the senator added on Twitter.

SOURCE:-www.foxnews.com/politics/pentagon-postpones-icbm-test-tensions-russia.amp

CoronaVirusPro:
Fake bomb!

That's how they told us they have the best Military until they lost 500 soldiers and over 10 jet fighter in less than one week.

Putin should go eat fresh fish with vodka, the world now knows its military is a junk

Outside nuclear warhead, the military got nothing....

Even UGM/ESN will defeat the Russian military if Putin promises not to use nuclear weapon


Putin be calling hunters as soldiers

It is called war. Soldiers and civilians are expected to die for sure. Ukrainian military is far stronger than Iraqis military that was defeated by the US. There no military in the world that will invade Nigeria without loosing soldiers despite our weak military. Engaging a country with a population of 40 million people with less than 200,000 soldiers is not a joke.

Weapon are being sent to Ukraine on daily basis. It is Russia against the world. They will even loose more soldiers. Russia is not fighting Ukraine alone. It is fighting the whole world alone.

This has never happened in the history of the world.

SeaTrade:
I cannot,and will never support making ordinary citizens suffer because of decisions made without their consent and is way above their pay grade.
The high handedness of America and it's allies shows they've got no honour and respect for processes and can just do whatever they want because they think they control the world.
All these sanctions that'll have Russian ordinary people suffer and freezing their oligarchs assets around the world is highly stupid,unethical and i will think there's something else making them do this asides the invasion of Ukraine, else why?
Decisions and actions like this make me give support to Russia to bomb Ukraine to kingdom come and they're justified honestly.

The idea of sanctioning states is to turn citizens against the government by making them suffer. It won't be effective if ordinary citizens are not targeted. They expect the citizens to rise against their government.

In the case of Russia. The politicians and the oligarchs have been expecting sanctions targeting them since 2014. So they were prepared.

This is an experiment for the West. They have fired all their bullets. If these sanctions fail to destroy Russia. Then it is game over for them. Russia will definitely cut ties with the West and look for partners in South America, Asia and African. The world is big enough to maneuver.

Heavy sanctions have been placed on states by the West Cuba, Iran e.t.c and they have failed to yield desired result. Those states (countries) still stand today.

CoronaVirusPro:
Putin gradually becoming a comedian that Zelensky retired from.

Seizing everything while his own whole citizens have been seized by western sanctions

Putin is abusing vodka and needs to take a break. Where is he getting all this crude inspiration from.

Built up for months along Ukraine’s boarder, and still cannot make it to Kyiv, rather, he started seizing transport buses, power plants, small generators and electronics

Russian generals need to take a drastic action and extinguish the dwarf.

You don't expect Putin to abandon the battle field. The worst of all sanctions has been levelled against Russia. Arms are being deployed to Ukraine.

It is too late for Putin to call for cease fire. The only compensation for all the trouble brought upon Russia by the West is Kiev.

Putin will take Kiev no matter how long it's takes.

VERDA:
No one is attaching emotions to anything, your whole writeup was as a result of the ongoing debate about the Russian/Ukraine war...

And about the world been unipolar, like I stated earlier, nobody is stopping others from not advancing, the world is not fair, and those with the greatest technology and prosperity wield the greatest power, and will exercise it to their advantage always...

The european countries (except Russia and some few countries) are under the influence of the US. None of them is competing with the US. They are working with the US.

China on the other side is considered a threat to the US. You need to ask yourself why is China a threat?

It is a threat because it is competing with the US. So the US is using everything it gat to bring down China.

VERDA:
So this is not about what is right or wrong for you but about the bad decisions the US made in the past?...

So in your mind because US made bad decisions in the past, Russia has the right to start a war that may kill millions? And should not be called to order?

Sometimes I wonder if we are moving forward as a human race, it is thinking like this that slows down progress...it's just like saying that if some retards in the north killed some easterners in their domain some time ago however wrong they might have been, it is ok for some retards in the east to also kill innocent northerners in their region too, after all, the northerners killed easterners first...

May God help us

This is one of the problem we are facing in the world. People attaching emotion to everything. Is like some people find it hard to comprehend what they read.

I highlighted the disadvantages of a unipolar world with example. Where exactly did i mention Russia?

ken6488:
well Russia doesn't plan annexing he just plan de militarizing it the children will learn not to mess with Russia

Russia is interested in destroying Ukrainian military totally.

Frank Gardner

BBC Security Correspondent

President Putin "would rather decimate Ukraine than have it in the Western camp" says the BBC's Frank Gardner.

He told BBC Breakfast, the Russians had so far held back some of their worst weapons but "the gloves are going to come off" in the "second phase" of the invasion.

"The difficult balancing act for the West is how to push Putin far enough to punish him for this, to stop this war, but not push him so far that he lashes out and does something really horrendous."

Gardner said it was unlikely there was anyone close to Putin advising caution.

He said Putin had spent the past two years during the pandemic closeted with advisors planning this attack.

Putin "has concentrated power in his hands. No-one is talking to him," Gardner warned.

Source:-bbc.com

Maxymilliano:
https://guardian.ng/news/nigerian-volunteer-fighters-besiege-ukraine-embassy/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&Echobox=1646201849&utm_source=Facebook

I am sure when they get to the war front, they will regret their existence on earth.

WoundedLamb:
You guys saying don't seem to understand the relationship between Ukraine and Russia. Do you think Ukraine would be looking at NATO if Russia treated them like the US treats Canada? Russia practically pushed Ukraine to NATO by showing over and over again they've got no regards for Memoranda/pacts. It was a survival move for Ukraine. Ukraine gave up ALL thier nuclear weapons to Russia just to be left in peace. Russia signed never to harass them or violate thier sovereignty. This pact was continously violated by this same Russia. What would have the country do? Stay back and be oppressed into extinction? The leaders had to take a decision in the best interest of thier people. What Russia is asking of Ukraine is like pushing someone to the wall and asking them to break it and keep moving.

The only reason some people don't care about what Ukraine is going through is the grudges they've got against the West. But what they fail to understand is that they'd end up supporting oppression all over the world just cause the West are not saints. The only solution to this is one that ensures Russia will leave Ukraine in peace going forward. Just saying "don't join NATO" without addressing their concerns is not a solution but an oppression.

Most people use common sense to judge the situation in eastern europe rather than do little research to understand what is going on there.

Before 2014 and up till now, there are pro-Russians and pro-West in Ukraine. So in 2014, the pro-Russian government was overthrown by the pro-West. The current president Zelenszky was their leader. He became the president and started cracking down on the pro-Russians. TV stations & media houses belonging to the pro-Russians were closed, the owners were arrested. Government critics were areested. Many pro-Russians had to flee the country.

In the same year the pro-Russians in different part of Ukraine started demanding for independence. They started carrying arms against the government in different part of the country. In Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk e.t.c.

The same thing happened in Egypt when Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi plotted a coup against the Morsi. Morsi took power when Mubarak was forced to step down by the Egyptians. Morsi an islamist became the president. Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi forcefully remove Morsi and locked him up. Then he started cracking down of the Islamists. Thousands were arrested. Many were killed. (Mohamed Aboutrika) The former Egyptian footballer and former african footballer of the was added to a terror list by his native Egypt for alleged ties to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.

Russia & Ukraine were good before 2014.

raymondhillmimi:
Who else have noticed the level of hate on USA especially on Nairaland. You hate a country but yet you all want to live there. Are Nigerians sick or what cause I don’t understand!

Most people don't hate the US. People want see a world where countries will be treated fairly

US invaded Iraq on lies. They lied to the whole world that Iraq has weapon of mass destruction. Iraq has been ruined. Iraqis are suffering now. People don't sympatise with the Iraqis because we have been brainwashed. They tag them terrorists for wanting to take back their country from the US imposed government.

Libyans used to be the luckiest people on earth. Gaddafi gave them everything they need. Now Libyans are the most unfortunate people. NATO has destroyed the country completely. The Libyans realise this and attacked the US consolate and killed the US ambassador to Libya.

The same thing was done in Yogoslavia, cuba e.t.c. The US forcefully remove government s of sovereign countries and impose new governments on the people.

All these astrocities were carried out and not a single sanction was levelled against the US.

This is why i don't support a unipolar world. In a unipolar world. There is only one master (US). This one master can do anything that others are not allowed to do.

But if we have a multipolar world. The most powerful country on earth (US) can be challenged and call to order.

Moxil:
Shutup if you don't know what to say

It is true. Presently the US still import oil from Russia. You can google it.

NwaNimo1:
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/01/tech/apple-russia/index.html

This kind of action may backfire. The Russians will never stop using phones. Another phone maker will take their place.

Russia is a market for apple. Now apple has abandon the market. So if China invades Taiwan in the future, the international community will expect apple to do the same. They will be forced to abandon a market of more than one billion people.

victorsola:
War analyst on nairaland , funny people . Each time I read comments I just laf, because none of you have experienced this before . So you analyze because Russia thinks she can bring ukrain down. I thought with their power ukrain should be a work over but their had to set up a nuclear bomb in stand by for small ukrain. And this war nobody will come out happy but their poor citizens will feel it. Mind you putins family are in Germany not Russia. So las las they will both suffer it and we will all still be alright.

Of course you don't expect this to be work over, since weapon are being poured into Ukraine.

Svlla:
Easy pick for S300

EU should stop funding this war with their hypocrisy and is there any agreement with Russia to transfer Russia made planes to Ukraine?

I said it here earlier that the West is in a tearing race to re arm Ukraine and resupply it with military hardwares because of the effective demilitarisation of Ukraine and the elimination of almost all Ukraine military hardwares, including over 300 tanks and armored vehicles, 30+ aircrafts with most sitting duck, and 29+command centres, bringing to a total of 1211 military infrastructures destroyed by the Russia military.

Why the need to restock Ukraine if not wanting to prolong this conflict.

Well Russia still controls the Ukrainian airspace and is unbothered by some obsolete 2nd generation fighters.

The Ukrainian pilot will not be able to fly the Western fighter jets. They can only fly soviet era fighter jets like Mig-29 & SU-27.

BritishNaija:
I saw it already, you should have posted it along.

Read my response to "omale88"

BritishNaija:
I saw the news, its fake, Why did you not post the follow up? You posted the one that you like.

Someone "omale88" has already posted it on this thread. Kindly check!

BritishNaija:
Why do you like bringing fake news?

Russian forces are under pressure in Ukraine and set to become more violent, the UK's defence secretary says.

"The Ukrainians are putting up a very strong fight," Ben Wallace told BBC Breakfast.

He says Russia's President Vladimir Putin has made a "miscalculation" by convincing himself the Ukrainian people were waiting to be liberated.

That means the Russians must reset their plan, slow down or even play for time.

"One of the fears everyone should have is does he know what's going on in Ukraine? Are people actually telling him the truth?" he says.

Wallace says the Russian federation army is behind schedule, they are taking significant casualities and they are feeling public rejection in parts of the Russian system including protests back home.

"But the Russian handbook is to get more violent and commit more forces because fundamentally in the Russian doctrine the lives of their own soldiers matter much less than in other armed forces," he says.

"We have to brace ourselves for what may come next which could be ruthless indiscriminate bombing of cities and the propelling forward of soldiers and high casualty levels and that's going to be horrific."

Before you accuse someone of posting fake news, you need to verify. Kindly check bbc.com

omale88:
here is what the news say, probably you missed it?

The news says no long ago, we reported that ...

omale88:
here is what the news say, probably you missed it?

omale88:
here is what the news say, probably you missed it?

Lol! It was reported. Try and scroll down.

The thing is there is a lots of propaganda going on. And sometimes is like the Ukrainians are confused.

Zelenszky at some point said he was ready to talk about neutrality with the Russians and later he said they will defend the country.

There was a time UK said Russian has lost 450 soldiers. Ukraine its 1000 plus.

I think when the war is over. We shall know the truth.

Siwisheswereesh:
The Russians can still be taken on from behind!!! Also you think there are no tunnels leading to Kyiv You want the mayor to expose all that

The troops came in from Belarus. Some of Ukraineian troops are held up in Donbass by the seperatists and Russian force.. Some are held up in Kharkiv. The troops in other places will not abandon the frontline for Kiev.

omale88:
no direct link to source?

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-60542877

Just visit bbc.com and look for it. They give update on the every few mins. So you may need to scroll down.

Siwisheswereesh:
Hence, encirclement is no big deal. It's a resistance war similar to the battle of Stalingrad in WW2.

According to the mayor. Nothing can go in and nothing can go out. Which mean the Russians may not attack. As it is now supply (food & weapon) can not go in. It is a big deal. The same tactics was used in Syria to retake several cities.

THe Russians were able to force their way into Kiev. The city defenders couldn't stop them. So they gain entrance into while awaiting re-enforcements. They city defenders had to abandon their defense line outside the city & went into the city to engage the Russians.

Russian re-enforcements came from different directions and the troops inside city retreated. The Ukrainians thought they had successful repel the Russian, not knowing it was a tactics to send them into the city and surround them from all sides.

Siwisheswereesh:
Only Kyiv is encircled not the entire country. The Russians can still be taken on from behind...

Russia can not occupy the entire country. A country that has population of 40 million people can not be occupy with 150000 troops. It is impossible.

They Russians have mapped out key cities in Ukraine. Kiev, Odesa, Mariopol, Kharkiv e.t.c, without these cities.l, there is no Ukraine. They intend to seize these cities. But Kiev is the most important.

Taliban was able to bounce because the US didn't occupy the entire Country.

The bulk of Russian forces have not engaged yet. The Russians thought with few troops they can take key locations in the country and hold them till their main forces move in to occupy cities. But this tactics didn't work. Now they have re-stratigies.

Kiev Kyiv) has been encircled. Nothing can go in and nothing can go out. No weapon can go in.

The Russians will continue to carry out missile and air strikes on the city till they are comfortable that the bulk of their forces can go in and occupy the city successful.

Kyiv’s mayor has been speaking to the Associated Press and says the city is now "encircled" by Russian forces.

Vitali Klitschko was asked whether there were plans to evacuate civilians should Russian troops seize the capital.

“We can’t do that, because all ways are blocked,” he said. “Right now we are encircled.”

Air raids have been sounding in the city as residents face another night under the threat of air strikes.

Source:-BBC

obedience4:
Thank you.. Finally someone with brains...
So with all these no one can win a nuclear war..

You welcome bro!

Also, both US and Russia have ground based radar that can detect ICBM when fired from anywhere in the world. Apart from ground base radar. The US AEGIS defense systems is equipped a very powerful radar which can also detect ballistic missiles. The AEGIS systems are strategically placed in Europeans water and Asia. The AEGIS is expected to shot down ICBM. The Russians claim the S-400 can shot down ICBM. But they have other systems that are specifically designed to shot down ICBM. Systems like S-550 are designed for this.

The US and Russia are far ahead of other countries in terms of effectively delivering nuclear weapon to enemy's territory/territories. And also effectively defend themselves again ICBM, atleast on paper.

But both have issues with cruise missiles. Cruise missile is a nightmare to all defense systems & that is the major reason why Putin does not want it's country to be sorrounded by NATO. Although Russia has advantage over the West in the use of tactical nuclear weapon, mainly because it has hypersonic missiles (Zircon & Kinzhal missiles). But the US is working day and night on it own hypersonic missile program and sooner or later, the US will field it's own hypersonic Missiles.

Putin is not really a mad man. He can see what most people can't. The baltic states are not a problem for Putin. Russia can take them out within minutes in a major conflict. But if Ukraine, Finland & Sweden join NATO. Then they will be too much to handle for Russia.

The super powers are playing some politics that people no nothing about. The US & allies are trying to put themselves in a position that will give them advantage over Russia in a major conflict (nuclear war) & Putin knows this.

wingmanIII:
Gbam!!
The mad man is only bluffing. They will call his bluff

I still don't know why the Russians have decided not to use their best military equipments. Fighter jets like SU-35 ,SU-30 & the very big SU-34 have not been used. The likes of SU-35 & SU-30 can comfortably protect the SU-25 bomber from being shot down. Likewise the helicopters. Tanks like the T-90 has not been used. The Russians are using mainly the old T-72 tanks.

SU-34 can carry twice the payload of SU-25. It also has air-air capabilities.

Also bombers like TU-22m can be used to take out bulk of Ukrainian soldiers & equipments at once.

Gunship like MI-28 night hunters will be very effective if they can use it.

May be the Russians underestimate the Ukrainians. Putin has invaded and there is no going back. He will definitely get what he want. But at what cost?

obedience4:
Young man keep quiet... The US had what we called Tue triad deterrent methods.. One through land based nuclear weapons In silos.. Two using bombers aircraft like the B15 and the heavy B52 Stratofortress..
Also the f35 can also carry nuclear payloads.. The third which is more important is the sea based.. Americans have over 12 SSBN nuclear submarines which are always on the sea.. They Can deploy nuclear weapons from anywhere they are in the world....
The moment Putin lunches it is finish.. He will also be hit with a nuclear weapon.. Period..you were saying ICBM seems you recently heard the word lol.. All nuclear weapons land based and sea must be fitted in an intercontinental billistic missile.. How do expect to shoot a weapon before...
France is nuclear weapon nation.
So is the UK..
And NATO country's houses us nuclear weapons

Russia also possesses a nuclear "triad," meaning it's able to deploy its nuclear arsenal through land, sea, and air. This is done through intercontinental ballistic missiles, sea-launched ballistic missiles, and strategic bombers. Russia has 10 or more Ballistic Missile Submarine.

The US is also a known nuclear TRIAD country.
Only the US & Russia have nuclear TRIAD capabilities.

China is also working hard to a have its own Nuclear TRIAD. Presently it deliver its nuclear weapons via land and sea.

France can only deliver its nuclear weapons via aircraft (Dassault Rafale fighter jet and submarines). The country's Dassault Rafale fighter jet can deploy a nuclear weapon with a warhead 20 times the size of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. If the warhead of that size were to drop over Washington, DC, it would result in some 280,000 casualties, according to Nuclear Secrecy's calculations.

UK can only deliver nuclear weapons through the sea only (Nuckear-Powered Ballistic Missile Submarine). The has just four Ballistic Missile Submarines.

India can deliver it's own nuclear arsenal via land & sea. Likewise North Korea.

Pakistan can do through land and air.

zigzagluv:
they are not losing , Losing what ? dont listen to western media, Uk has ask for talks with russia and is happening this week , Russia has captured more cities , The captial is just standing because they dont want to move in yet

The bulk of Russian troops have not engaged yet.

godliman:
His down fall has just began. Nobody takes on the world and win, ask Hitler. You just love a murderer of innocent people irrespective of how devilish he is, truly love they say is blind that is why you throw a blind eye on his wickedness

Nuclear war will affect everybody.

DoggoneDogg:
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Do you know what Twitter is?

It is on bbc.

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