@DrNeilStone Indeed, product of affluent upbringing and knack for persuasion. A modern day master mountebank. Shame, imagine if he defended facts and science with the same zeal.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr announced that the US federal government is terminating US$500 million worth of grants for mRNA vaccine research.
We must never, ever, forget that millions are alive today, or in better health, because of this life-saving technology.
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People don’t realize yet the incredible geopolitical balance shift that took place today.
Russia’s ability to deliver a nuclear strike is now the weakest it’s ever been after 1960s.
The TU-95 and TU-160 are Russia’s two class of long range nuclear capable bombers.
Public OSINT data put estimates of Russia’s remaining active TU-95’s at 30-40 and TU-160s at 13-15.
Whilst Russia claims 55 TU-95s.
Either way if 27 were confirmed destroyed (with data still coming in) that’s somewhere between 33%-70% of Russia’s long distance bombers.
They also hit at least 1 of 8 remaining A-50 radar craft in Russia’s arsenal.
All together this massively cuts down Russia’s ability to use their nuclear arsenal.
They are now limited to the TU-22M3 which is a fraction of the range and not currently equipped for their payloads, their Sukhoi craft which are incredibly short range by comparison, or their various ICBM payloads, which just had ALL their specs, schematics and maintenance status leaked two weeks ago and are now monitored and vulnerable.
Between these two events (silo leaks and Ukraine mission) every nuclear asset Russia has is either offline, monitored, interceptable, needs retrofitting, or so small in scope (I.e so few bombers) that they are likely to be shot down before leaving Russian airspace.
All while Ukraine continues to show how weak and scattered Russian security truly is.
If ever there were a time for NATO allies to push against Russia - this is that moment.
We’re now in a rare window where Russia is the least capable it’s been of fielding a nuclear response in decades.
This moment will be in history books not because of simply the impressive intelligence work of the strike - but for how it just changed a balance of power that has been in place since the Cold War!