By Polina Tikhonova on November 3, 2015 in Politics, Russia

Russia is the only country in the world with the nuclear capability to destroy the U.S., according to Army Chief of Staff General Mark Milley. The General called Russia an existential threat to the U.S., speaking in front of the audience at the Defense One summit in Washington, DC on Monday.
Russia General Mark Milley
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Milley also considers Russia “aggressive” and “adversarial to the interests of the United States,” which is why Moscow’s nuclear weapons are capable of destroying the U.S.

The General warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent behavior suggest the country would be willing to use nuclear weapons. Milley also noted that Russia has been violating “the Westphalian order” ever since it started invading “sovereign nations” in 2008.

Milley has already called Russia an existential threat during his confirmation hearing before the U.S. Senate back in July. Two weeks prior to his confirmation hearing, U.S. General James Dunford used the same phrasing during his own Senate confirmation hearing to become the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

“I would say that Russia’s recent behavior is adversarial to the interests of the United States,” Milley said, referring to Russia’s aggressive drills and patrols with its troops, aircraft and submarines for the past “four-five-six-seven” years. “Russia bears close watching,” he added.

The audience then asked whether Russia should be considered an enemy rather than a partner, but Milley responded with an urge to a “strength and balance sort of approach, which is our current policy.”

While diplomacy is very “nuanced,” Russia must be fought with sanctions and NATO’s confident stance, he noted. However, the General added that the U.S. must cooperate with Russia on matters that require involvement of both Washington and Moscow.
Russia’s military far more advanced than that of U.S. – American analyst

Russia is far more advanced and superior in terms of military technologies than the U.S., while the recent American missile tests were nothing but a “bluff” to trick people into thinking the U.S. military could easily counter even such a nuclear-powerful adversary as Russia, according to an American counter-terrorism analyst.

Scott Bennett, a former U.S. Army psychological warfare officer, said in an interview with Press TV on Monday that this is something Washington typically does: it tells its military brass to show off in front of its Russian counterparts, claiming that American missile technology is “the absolute end-all technology that can determine any war.”

The analyst’s comments come just a day after the U.S. military carried out a $230 million test involving Lockheed Martin’s Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) systems and the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) equipped onto the USS John Paul Jones destroyer.

The results of the test showed that the missile systems were capable of successfully hitting their targets in all but one of the tests. The tests with the missile systems involved a medium-range ballistic missile fired from C-17 aircraft.

During one of the tests, a SM-3 missile fired from the warship failed mid-air in its flight and missed the target. But the THAAD system was capable of taking the failed shot out.

“From a psychological warfare perspective, I see this as a massive bluff, as just a lot of feather puffing, and [it] really doesn’t have a lot of substance because the technology is not there and the Russian technology as we know is far superior,” Bennett said.

Bennett sees this elaborate $230 million missile test as a standard military test, while Washington wants to make it look as if it is more lethal than it really is.
U.S. will be responsible for deaths in Syria, not Russia – Analyst

The analyst also believes that the test is an attempt of the U.S. to assure its allies in the Middle East, who turn away from Washington one by one because of its incompetence in Syria, that the U.S. still has what it takes to maintain influence in the region. The tests seem to fall in line with U.S. President Barack Obama’s decision to send Special Operation forces to Syria.

Bennett expects Russia to call the bluff and warn the U.S. that if it sends American troops to Syria, “the Russian coalition will not be held responsible for any deaths that may result.”

Bennett also called Obama’s decision “a potential trap.” “It is an attempt to try and goad Russia, I think, into maneuvers and bombings that can kill a lot of American troops for the purposes of triggering a larger US action.”

The analyst also suspects that there might be a connection between the U.S. missile tests and the recent Russian plane crash over Egypt’s Sinai desert which killed 224 passengers on board, including 25 children and 7 crew members.
Russian navy presents threat to U.S.

Meanwhile, the U.S. is discussing the possibility to station more of its ships and naval objects in Europe as a response to Russia’s most threatening naval operations in two decades, according to the new U.S. Navy chief of naval operations.

The U.S. Navy is now reassessing its global stance to counter the aggressive activity of Russian warships and submarines, Admiral John Richardson, chief of naval operations said in an interview with the Financial Times.

“Their submarine force and their navy are as active as they have been in a long time, 20 years or so,” Admiral Richardson noted. “How are we going to posture our forces to make sure that we maintain the appropriate balance and are suitably engaged?”

The Admiral also said that the U.S. Navy is considering to step up its presence in Europe and the Pacific. “That’s the conversation we’re having right now.”

Russian Admiral Viktor Chirkov, the chief of the Russian navy, recently said that Russian submarine patrols have increased by 50 percent from 2013.

Good to know that America has someone they gat scared of. Monopoly of super power aint good for the world.

Ok!

Another Mother Russia thread. waiting on my Putin friends to show.

Missy89 needs to see this. Where is the bi.atch?

Cc.

Lalasticlala, appleyard, Nairaminted, Shymex, CSTR

pacino26:
Another Mother Russia thread. waiting on my Putin friends to show.

If Russia is a motherland, then what is America that houses over 50,000 Nigerian immigrants, and a significant percentage of its black American populace are of Igbo heritage.

This is no news. The russsian nuclear capability is frightening, same for America.
The US is ofcourse scared of a nuclear war with Russia, it doesn't mean they can't obliterate Russia in return.
America has much more to lose than backward Russia.

Russia's military infrastructure are older than the cold war era!

Interesting.

CSTR2:
This is no news. The russsian nuclear capability is frightening, same for America.
The US is ofcourse scared of a nuclear war with Russia, it doesn't mean they can't obliterate Russia in return.
America has much more to lose than backward Russia.

Backward russia? Are you kidding me? Remove your head from Obamas arse right now! You have eaten enough shit already!

speedyGonzales:
Russia's military infrastructure are older than the cold war era!

Well said like a western slave!

dinachi:

Backward russia? Are you kidding me? Remove your head from Obamas arse right now! You have eaten enough shit already!

Obama is not what I am talking about here.
America was already a great country before Obama came on the scene.

CSTR2:
This is no news. The russsian nuclear capability is frightening, same for America.
The US is ofcourse scared of a nuclear war with Russia, it doesn't mean they can't obliterate Russia in return.
America has much more to lose than backward Russia.

Exactly.

dinachi:
Well said like a western slave!

Fact man, America is richer than Russia... and spends more money on building military defence than any other country on earth! it is hard to admit but Russian military is just not as strong as America's... the only thing the have on their side is Nuclear weapons, but so does India and Pakistan.

A fight between Russia and the US will come down to who has more money to sustain their troops longer in battle... clearly America!

[b]Yes of course, this is not new, in fact this is not news!!! The General was absolutely right and so on point, we all know what Russia is capable of doing. Russia is the only country on earth that poses a military threat to America existence and America also poses a Military threat to Russia existence; Russai can destroy America and America can do the same thing to Russia, but the question is, what does Russia tend to lose ? They say: ''Never fight with an idiot else, he would drag you down and beat you with experience. That is the logic.!!

One thing we refuse to understand is that, America is facing two side war. #1 Military war, #2 Economic war.
As America is facing Military war with Russia, so also it is facing Economic war with China. China is a threat to America economic dominance and Russia is also a threat to America military domince which means, America is fighting double battles. But if Russia goes into a full-scale conventional war with America, America will lose a lot, few people understand what I'm saying. For example, If Russia loses N1,000 in war, America will lose N10,000.
If you think Russia ''gragra'' in Ukraine and Syria means military supremacy over America, then you have to wake up. If Iraq/Afghanistan war could incapacitate American's economy, how much more is Russia.
Untill when Russian economy is a large/sophisticated as American's own and untill when China military is as big/sophisticated as American's own, America won't think of fighting any of them. Don't fight with who has little or nothing to lose.
Yes Russia is a threat to America existence and America is also a threat to Russia existence. Final!!![/b]

^^^^^

Nonsense!

Fact is: Russia will bury America in two weeks of a nuclear war. Putin was alleged to have said that "the only reason America wants any form of cooperation with us (Russia) is that they recognize that Russia will defeat America in a nuclear war under 30 minutes."

speedyGonzales:


Fact man, America is richer than Russia... and spends more money on building military defence than any other country on earth! it is hard to admit but Russian military is just not as strong as America's... the only thing the have on their side is Nuclear weapons, but so does India and Pakistan.

A fight between Russia and the US will come down to who has more money to sustain their troops longer in battle... clearly America!

And I am still not wrong, you still think like the western propaganda machine. It is not all about the amount of money you WASTE on defence.With a tiny slice of what America wastes on defence, yet Russia still parades weapon systems that rival and most times surpass US weapons. Forget it, America is all noise and no action!

Tkester:
^^^^^

Nonsense!

Fact is: Russia will bury America in two weeks of a nuclear war. Putin was alleged to have said that "the only reason America wants any form of cooperation with us (Russia) is that they recognize that Russia will defeat America in a nuclear war under 30 minutes."

Provide a link where Putin said so or you are lying

Tkester:
^^^^^

Nonsense!

Fact is: Russia will bury America in two weeks of a nuclear war. Putin was alleged to have said that "the only reason America wants any form of cooperation with us (Russia) is that they recognize that Russia will defeat America in a nuclear war under 30 minutes."

Russia can never defeat America. Believe those American military chiefs at your own peril. You expect them to come out and say they are capable of defeating russia Such comments is just to polish Putin's over-bloated ego. Russia might be ahead in nuclear war heads, but the truth is none of both countries can afford to fight each other. It will lead to damages that will take over a century to rebuild

Sun Tzu I see you.

When weak act strong
When strong act weak
Smoke screens you can see through

speedyGonzales:


Fact man, America is richer than Russia... and spends more money on building military defence than any other country on earth! it is hard to admit but Russian military is just not as strong as America's... the only thing the have on their side is Nuclear weapons, but so does India and Pakistan.

A fight between Russia and the US will come down to who has more money to sustain their troops longer in battle... clearly America!

It not about the total amount spent on the military but the actual amount spent on weaponry; the United States overhead cost is 5 times of that of Russia while America spend over 100 million dollar to manufacture a military platform, the Russians manufacture the same if not better for 1/3 of the same price.

The United States is funding several wars all over the world one way or the order & they give military aids to several countries eg Israel, Egypt which amount to around 8 billion dollars not to talk of other countries & NATO while the Russians really give military aids and if they do, they are in millions not billions like the United States.

Another thing is that the United States have military bases in every region of the world & this require lots of money to maintain while the Russians have very few.

Let me say that there ain't much differences as per as what both Russia & the united States spend on their military If we factor all these together.

Rotimi47:
It not about the total amount spent on the military but the actual amount spent on weaponry; the United States overhead cost is 5 times of that of Russia while America spend over 100 million dollar to manufacture a military platform, the Russians manufacture the same if not better for 1/3 of the same price.

Let me say that there ain't much differences between what both Russia & the united States spend on their military If we factor all these together.

Lol.

Reyginus:
Lol.

Cheers.

Rotimi47:
Cheers.

Cheers.

Russia can rush anything, they can rush America to a stand still.

gebest:
Russia can rush anything, they can rush America to a stand still.

Lololol.

Rotimi47:
It not about the total amount spent on the military but the actual amount spent on weaponry; the United States overhead cost is 5 times of that of Russia while America spend over 100 million dollar to manufacture a military platform, the Russians manufacture the same if not better for 1/3 of the same price.

Let me say that there ain't much differences between what both Russia & the united States spend on their military If we factor all these together.

dude, I get it you support Russia. I support neither country, I don't want them fighting at all.

but having just finished a course in the UK on satellite systems, where our Prof, analysed the infrastructure in place by the US (for instance the GPS, we use today was developed by American defence budget, and some of the capabilities are hidden from civilians). the US has military bases across the world, each fitted with satellite monitoring stations. an standing army on every continent (I think except Africa) and compared with other countries, the only country that can compete is France, but china is slowly joining. in conventional war, with just guns, then anyone could win. but with technological capabilities, this satellite technology naturally intersects with military and we analysed every country (admittedly Russia is more secretive about their capabilities than the US), but US is way out in front.

Everyone including america is afraid of Nuclear weapons and Nuclear war! because it could lead to an apocalypse

The Prof that taught (consults in satellite development project for across the world) told a story on the top of the range satellite that Yar adua wanted to buy from a UK company but the UK government blocked the sell, because it was the latest in satellite technology for defence.

mazeltov:
[b]Yes of course, this is not new, in fact this is not news!!! The General was absolutely right and so on point, we all know what Russia is capable of doing. Russia is the only country on earth that poses a military threat to America existence and America also poses a Military threat to Russia existence; Russai can destroy America and America can do the same thing to Russia, but the question is, what does Russia tend to lose ? They say: ''Never fight with an idiot else, he would drag you down and beat you with experience. That is the logic.!!

One thing we refuse to understand is that, America is facing two side war. #1 Military war, #2 Economic war.
As America is facing Military war with Russia, so also it is facing Economic war with China. China is a threat to America economic dominance and Russia is also a threat to America military domince which means, America is fighting double battles. But if Russia goes into a full-scale conventional war with America, America will lose a lot, few people understand what I'm saying. For example, If Russia loses N1,000 in war, America will lose N10,000.
If you think Russia ''gragra'' in Ukraine and Syria means military supremacy over America, then you have to wake up. If Iraq/Afghanistan war could incapacitate American's economy, how much more is Russia.
Untill when Russian economy is a large/sophisticated as American's own and untill when China military is as big/sophisticated as American's own, America won't think of fighting any of them. Don't fight with who has little or nothing to lose.
Yes Russia is a threat to America existence and America is also a threat to Russia existence. Final!!![/b]

This is the basic truth. US is a country that is more economically buoyant and have more advanced weapons than Russia. From better assault rifles to Missile Cruisers to aircraft carriers... US of A got more. The only thing Russia has more than US is nuclear missiles. They almost have enough to destroy the whole world and US has enough nukes to destroy Russia too. It's better they don't fight, cos if they do, nukes would get involved and the whole world would never be dsame again...thats if it doesn't lead to a nuclear armageddon.

U better stop trying to convince all these myopic nigerian youths that are always guided by sentiments. Even d learned ones among them don't know what to do with logical proofs. No wonder they say most naija graduates are half baked....they'll never agree no matter how many reasons u give to prove US can sustain a conventional war for a longer period.

CSTR2:
If Russia is a motherland, then what is America that houses over 50,000 Nigerian immigrants, and a significant percentage of its black American populace are of Igbo heritage.

Mother Russia is a common slogan, so when I say mother Russia am not looking at the millions of migrants from Africa to any country.

That been said, this new Russia America media war isn't a smoke screen rather a funny calculated simulation to gather public opinion on some covert issues. I love the Putin fan base in NL same as those supporting the West. It's forms part of my pleasure reading.

No one is insane enough to launch a nuclear strike! Forget all those movies where Navy seal or Mi6 agents prevent a random code strike. Lol

Spertsnaz already de on ground in Syria, Seal Team 6 & 7 should join them there and do battle.

Russia remains a military threat same way China poses economic threat to the U.S.as stated by one commentator here. The bottom line is that uncle Sam isn't the only sheriff in town. Germany and India de come sef.