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[Brian Berletic @BrianJBerletic]

🇺🇸🇷🇺NEW ARTICLE: How the US Destruction of the INF Treaty Backfired

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Western media headlines have announced the alleged use by Russia of what is being dubbed the “Iskander-1000,” a ground-launched ballistic missile with a potential range of approximately 1,000 km (Western sources claim previous Iskander missiles had ranges of around 390 km with the current Iskander-1000 having a range of 550 km and a potential future range of 1,000 km). Should the new Iskander variant achieve ranges of up to 1,000 km it would place all of Ukraine’s territory within reach from launch positions across pre-2022 Russian Federation territory.

The Iskander’s range had previously been capped at 500 km by the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty. However, that cap was lifted following the unilateral withdrawal of the US from the treaty in 2019 under the first Trump administration. That had followed the likewise unilateral US withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty in 2002 under the Bush administration - all part of a continuous US policy of dismantling arms control treaties and rolling out treaty-violating weapons along the borders of not only Russia, but also Iran in West Asia and China in the Asia-Pacific region.

Among those US treaty-violating systems were Aegis Ashore installations capable of tracking and intercepting missiles fired by Russia as part of a retaliatory strike - a key violation of the ABM treaty which would theoretically allow the US to carry out a nuclear or conventional first-strike on Russia while preventing or minimizing any Russian retaliation. The Aegis Ashore system is also capable of ground-launching INF treaty-prohibited Tomahawk cruise missiles (2,500 km) offensively. Aegis Ashore was constructed and brought online in Romania and Poland during the Obama and Biden administrations respectively.

Also following the US withdrawal from the INF treaty was the development and deployment of the mobile Typhon system capable of ground-launching conventional or nuclear-capable Tomahawk cruise missiles previously prohibited under the INF treaty. The first Typhon systems became operational and plans to deploy it began under the subsequent Biden administration - demonstrating continuity of agenda regardless of whether Democrats or Republicans controlled the US government.

In addition to the Aegis Ashore and Typhon systems, the US also began work on the Dark Eagle hypersonic ground-launched missile (3,500 km) - another system prohibited under the previous INF treaty.

There is also the US Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) slated to replace aging and less capable ATAMCS fired by HIMARS and M-270 launchers. PrSM is the closest US-equivalent to the Iskander with PrSM’s current range at 500 km and plans to likewise extend it to 1,000 km in future variants.

With US-Soviet/Russian treaties abandoned by the US and a growing number of weapon systems being openly developed and deployed by Washington - Russia began rolling out its own comparable systems.

In addition to the Iskander-1000, Russia has already introduced the Iskander-K (500 km with some variants reaching up to 2,000 km) - a cruise missile launched by the same mobile platforms used to fire Iskander-M ballistic missiles. Ground-launched versions of Russia’s Kalibr cruise missiles (1,500 - 2,500 km) and its hypersonic Zircon missiles (1,000 km) have also been developed and since deployed.

Most notable among Russia’s rollout of systems to counter US INF treaty-violating weapons is the Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile (3,000-5,500 km) capable of delivering up to 6 multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs) at hypersonic speeds - each of which contain an additional 6 submunitions for a total of 36 projectiles. Its destructive power has already been demonstrated amid the US proxy war on Russia in Ukraine.

US INF Treaty Destruction Backfiring

The US withdrawal from the INF treaty (and before that, the ABM treaty) was designed to give the US an advantage over not only Russia by further encircling it with treaty-violating anti-missile and offensive missile systems - but also over China which never signed any arms control treaties with the US. However, the emerging result is a lopsided quantitative and qualitative edge for both Russia and China - saying nothing of their combined capabilities.

While in theory the US generally has equivalent systems for each of Russia’s new missiles, the quantity at which the US is capable of producing them is dwarfed by Russia’s immense and still growing military industrial base.

The US is producing approximately 230 PrSMs a year versus Russia which is producing nearly 800 Iskanders with plans to continuously expand production.

The US currently produces between 60-190 Tomahawk cruise missiles per year versus approximately 350 Kalibr, 50 Zircon, and 120 Iskander-K missiles (520 ground-launched capable cruise missiles in total) produced by Russia over the same period.

It should be noted that the actual number of ground-launch transporter systems across US inventories is relatively small compared to those of Russia - meaning that many of its Tomahawk cruise missiles would be launched by naval vessels at sea. It should also be noted that not all of Russia’s Kalibr and Ziron missiles are ground-launched - but also launched by naval vessels at sea.

China (as well as Iran) never signed arms control treaties with the United States thus both nations enjoy a substantial advantage in ballistic missile capabilities and quantities. And while Iran faces a deficit in other military capabilities the US does have in abundance - including air power - China has closed the gap or is in the process of surpassing the US in virtually all areas of military power.

While China is not directly arming or equipping Russia militarily - it is a close trade, industrial, and economic partner with Russia - including the transferring of industrial equipment almost certainly assisting Russia in its ability to continue to expand its already substantial quantitative advantage over the US across a wide range of military capabilities including ground-launched missile systems previously prohibited under the INF treaty.

Reports of North Korea supplying Russia with larger and longer range versions of Russia’s own Iskander missiles - the Kn-23 (900 km) - not only means Russia possess the means to further augment its advantages over the US through imported missiles - but likewise implicates China’s role in indirectly boosting North Korean military industrial capacity and thus the quantity of arms North Korea is able to transfer to Russia.

China maintains this careful balancing act of heavily regulating its involvement in the ongoing US proxy war with Russia in Ukraine as an indirect trickle, attempting to put off any sort of direct confrontation with the United States for as long as possible. However, if (or perhaps when) the US crosses further lines in encircling and encroaching upon China itself, this balancing act could quickly go from a trickle to a flood of military industrial support for Russia - not only in boosting Russia’s own industrial capacity, but leveraging China’s vastly greater military industrial base to supply Russia with weapons and ammunition directly.

While the US has lofty plans to eventually outproduce Russia in terms of the many munitions and launch systems previously prohibited by the INF treaty, it remains to be seen whether or not the US has the ability to put these plans into action and whether or not Russia can continue to meet or exceed US military industrial production in the process. So far, it would appear that the US decision to unilaterally withdraw from its arms control treaties with Russia has backfired.

This disparity in military industrial production regarding weapons and munitions previously prohibited under the INF treaty is but a microcosm of a much larger and growing industrial, economic, and military gap between the rising multipolar world and a US insistent on preserving its unipolar power.

Only time will tell how long the US insists in escalating its war on multipolarism and in particular, its encroachment, encirclement, and aggression against Russia, China, and Iran specifically versus its material capacity to do so - and how well Russia, China, and Iran not only work to counter this escalating war, but do so in growing cooperation with one another.

Brian Berletic is a Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher and writer.

[Brian Berletic @BrianJBerletic]

🇷🇺🇰🇵🇨🇳 On Reported Use of North Korean Kn-23 Ballistic Missiles

If Russia is actually receiving large numbers of Kn-23 ballistic missiles from North Korea (larger, longer-range versions of Russia's own Iskander ballistic missile) it tells us much about the present and possible future of China's involvement in pushing back against US wars and proxy wars.

1. North Korea is receiving significant economic support from China despite US sanctions making all industry including military industrial production viable;

2. China is providing significant industrial inputs making the production of arms and ammunition going to Russia possible;

3. So far, China is limiting what it is doing to maintain the illusion of plausible deniability and to avoid rapid escalation - imagine what will happen if/when the US crosses the line and China no longer cares who knows how it is boosting the military capabilities of its partners...

(Video: Allegedly 2 Kn-23 ballistic missiles impacting near Kiev).

[Brian Berletic @BrianJBerletic]

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇷🇺/IRAN - NEW VIDEO: China Lands Rocket, Russia Launches N. Korean Missiles, and US-Israeli Theater

On YouTube: https://t.co/PKRF80iOVc

▪️China successfully lands another space launch system, expanding reusability and positioning itself to match, then exceed the US in terms of annual space launches;

▪️Russia is reportedly using larger numbers of Kn-23 ballistic missiles from North Korea, which indirectly suggests greater Chinese support than often reported;

▪️Israel’s strikes on Syria are meant to create the illusion of Israeli friction with both the US and Syria - to help minimize public awareness of Syria’s role as a US proxy alongside Israel vs. both Iran and its regional allies;

[Brian Berletic @BrianJBerletic]

🇺🇸🇷🇺 On US ("Ukrainian") Strikes on Russia's  Progress Rocket and Space Center in Samara

▪️The facility is responsible for manufacturing the Soyuz launch system which not only is launching Russia's Rasvett satellite constellation (Russia's "Starlink/Starsheild" alternative), but also Soyuz supply and crew missions to the International Space Station upon which US astronauts also depend;

▪️Soyuz rockets are built months/years in advance of scheduled missions, so disruptions might not be immediate, and that is only if the strikes actually significantly damaged the facilities involved in Soyuz production, including facilities producing critical electronic components;

▪️Again, these are US strikes simply laundered through "Ukraine," depending entirely on US ISR for target and up to date Russian air defense posture and positions;

▪️Through such strikes, the US succeeds in degrading Russian capabilities, while Ukraine takes the full brunt of Russian retaliation = proxy war;

If Russia is determined to avoid wider war with the US or its European proxies - eliminating any real deterrence against such attacks, it must at least ensure it eliminates any single point of failure for critical economic, industrial and military capabilities - hardening and dispersing critical processes, assuming ALL of them will eventually be targeted.

Hopefully China and other potential targets of US war and proxy war are taking notes...

[Brian Berletic @BrianJBerletic]

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦NEW VIDEO: US Shell Factory Exposed: Why US For-Profit Industry Can't Compete with Russian/Chinese Production

On YouTube: https://t.co/ZZdKmUNdk6

▪️The US had set the target of manufacturing 100,000 155mm artillery shells every month by the end of 2025.

▪️Instead, it has failed to reach even half this target.

▪️This is in part due to an entire General Dynamics factory that failed to make a single usable shell component in 2 years and after receiving hundreds of millions of dollars to do so.

▪️Far from just an issue with artillery shells, US military industrial production is being held back by systemic flaws rooted in the for-profit nature of the US government and economy itself - siphoning off billions (if not trillions) of tax dollars and not only returning nothing of value for the American public - but diverting funding abroad on wars of aggression at the expense of funding healthcare, education, and infrastructure at home.

▪️This reveals US for-profit industry as the very threat in reality to the American people, industry and the politicians they own, claim Russia, China, and Iran are in fiction.

[Brian Berletic @BrianJBerletic]

🇺🇸🇷🇺US Continues Assassination Campaign inside Russia

▪️Western media is reporting on a car bomb killing the head of a Russian drone developer inside Russia;

▪️This is only the latest of serial car bombings and other attacks inside Russia killing military officers, politicians, and even journalists - the latter 2 being indisputably terrorism;

▪️All of these attacks are glorified in Western media as "demonstrated clandestine abilities" carried out by "Ukraine's" intelligence services;

▪️However, since 2014, Ukraine's intelligence services were completely captured and since under the direct control of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with networks of CIA bases criss-crossing Ukraine up to and along the Russian border;

▪️Thus, each "Ukrainian" intelligence operation is in fact a US operation - including the ongoing campaign of deliberate terrorism eagerly reported on by the Western media;

[Brian Berletic @BrianJBerletic]

🇺🇸🇷🇺Western Media Admits US-Ukraine Drones Strikes on Retailers in Russia is Solely Political

▪️First of all - these decisions are made in Washington, not Kiev - this is US money, ISR, drones, all being directed by the US' admitted command center in Europe running the war on Russia from top to bottom;

▪️Damaging Wildberries, Russia's massive online retailer, is admittedly being done to bring the US proxy war on Russia directly to Russia's civilian population - violence for political, not defensive motives, is literally the definition of terrorism;

▪️Of course, the war is waged and directed by the US simply through Ukraine - the recent escalation is another reminder that the US can directly strike at and hurt Russia but Russia cannot strike/harm or even credibly threaten the US - simply strike at and destroy Ukraine - a completely disposable proxy from Washington's point of view

▪️Strategically this will not change the course of the war in Ukraine, but it does raise the costs for Russia further, one of the US' primary objectives in waging the proxy war;

[Ryan Dawson @RyLiberty]

Kill Netanyahu

[Brian Berletic @BrianJBerletic]

🇺🇸🇷🇺NEW VIDEO: The Ukraine War is a US war on Russia

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[Brian Berletic @BrianJBerletic]

@MarkDavis8919 You served the US doing what? Killing people in their own homes because of lies your government told the public - all while stealing trillions of tax dollars from the American people?

What a hero!?

[Brian Berletic @BrianJBerletic]

🇺🇸 US Senator Lindsay Graham worked for the largest corporations in the US, not the American people. He made them literally trillions and they kept him in office literally until his last day on Earth.

When pulling a weed, 10 more will take its place.

Nothing will change just like after John McCain died. People don't even remember McCain even existed, that's how meaningless his death was in terms of "changing" anything for the better.

Don't celebrate - that's as bad as he was and also because literally nothing will change anyway.

Start rethinking why you have so many weeds in the first place and what can actually be done to change this much bigger overall problem if none of these individual people are the source of the problem.

Start thinking about the system itself - its prioritizing of profit and power over people and purpose - producing these people and the policies they push...

[Brian Berletic @BrianJBerletic]

@SwanKant2334 no, the US hasn't - literally everything it is doing right now - including its ongoing wars with both Russia and Iran are to shape geopolitics to further encircle and contain China.

[Brian Berletic @BrianJBerletic]

🇺🇸🇨🇳 What China's Long March 10B successful launch/recovery means within US plans to encircle, contain, & confront China...

▪️One of the US' remaining advantages is its ability to launch more payload to orbit each year than China and Russia combined - allowing it to not only build larger constellations of satellites like Starlink and its fully militarized version, Starshield faster, but in the event of orbital warfare (anti-satellite operations) the US could replace their own faster than China and Russia can even deploy them in the first place;

▪️When China ramps up its actual launch cadence with launch reusability, it will be able to at least match, if not surpass the US;

▪️This will benefit China and its allies like Russia tremendously with both larger and more capable constellations than the US, as well as the ability to eliminate US satellites and replace their own at a higher rate;

▪️That means there is now another rapidly closing window the US has to exploit before this transition takes place, and this advantage is neutralized;

▪️The only question now is how long will it take for China to catch up, and what will the US try to do in the interim to exploit its current advantage before it no longer exists?

▪️The likely window closes around 2030 - another reason the US keeps projecting "war" with China - because 2030 is the point of no return, not just for space, but AI and whatever other advantages the US still has;

▪️For people wondering why China isn't going to war with the US over Palestine or Iran or wherever else, it is likely because Beijing tracks China's rise as inevitable, UNLESS, it does something like step into a war the US wants to fight with China sooner rather than later...

[Brian Berletic @BrianJBerletic]

🇺🇸/IRAN - NEW VIDEO: The US War on Iran Continues & Why It Was Never Going to Stop

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[Brian Berletic @BrianJBerletic]

could you imagine if even ONE video like this emerged from China?

Yet I see nausea-inducing videos like this from the US everyday.

The US in its current form is a fatal global disease.

Cut it out now or it will kill us all wherever you are.

You can start NOW by STOP buying the products from the corporations - the source - driving this and ALL other foreign and domestic policies.

Huge corporations like those of the arms industry, big tech, big entertainment, big-oil, the auto industry, big-pharma, big-ag, big-retail etc. are all guilty - funding the very think tanks outlining and pushing these policies through at home and abroad.

It's not that big corporations are the problem - its how these corporations exist in the US - in the driver's seat of government, pursuing power and profit, rather than harnessed by government for purpose and the people.

Cut them off and pay into alternatives that put people and purpose first.

[Brian Berletic @BrianJBerletic]

China is well aware of US plans to encircle and contain it both economically and militarily - it is also well aware of Washington's use of social media to infiltrate and capture national information space and use it to destabilize and politically capture the nation itself.

China has spent decades building up its military, economy, infrastructure, information space, and its population to overcome these US efforts.

This includes the massive Belt and Road Initiative, its unprecedented investments in energy of all kinds, investments in education and industry, and of course the development of its military capabilities.

China has also built up is own ecosystem of social-media platforms to control how information is created/shared/consumed within its own information space - rather than Washington and Silicon Valley doing it for them...

I don't want people to misinterpret my warning about what the US is doing.

The US is not "unstoppable."

The US is only successful because people are too easily divided and distracted from doing anything at all to stop it.

China is already working hard to create a different future and a different global paradigm - Russia as well. So are many others across the multipolar world.

But the world needs as many people as possible everywhere to contribute as well.

The moment people realize what the US is doing and become determined to stop it, they can move mountains to do so - China is already doing it.

My warning is in the hope that many others far beyond China realize this danger and become active in confronting and overcoming it - and contributing to a better future.

The future is what we make of it - but if we are disarmed by information operations, political circus, and diversions - we won't have a part in making that future at all.

[Ethan Levins ✝️ @EthanLevins2]

The coffin of Khamenei’s 14 MONTH OLD granddaughter.

She was burned alive in an American strike on February 28th.

She died alone, in a separate room, playing with toys.

[Israel Exposed @xIsraelExposedx]

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