Russia has threatened to target Denmark’s warships with nuclear weapons if the Scandinavian nation becomes a member of Nato’s missile defence shield.
In comments which have been met with anger in Copenhagen, the Russian ambassador to Denmark said a move towards better integration with the Western alliance would make it a “threat to Russia”, and that it would have to accept the consequences.
Mikhail Vanin told the told Jyllands-Posten newspaper: “I do not think that the Danes fully understand the consequences if Denmark joins the US-led missile defence shield. If that happens, Danish warships become targets for Russian nuclear missiles.”
Heck of a job, Barry!
Makes you wish John Bolton’s mustache would similarly threaten Iran’s mullah’s should they accept delivery of Putin’s S-300 S-A missiles, huh?
I do not think the Mullahs fully understand the consequences if Iran deploys the Russian surface to air missiles. If that happens, Tehran becomes a target for American nuclear missiles.”
Wouldn’t it be loverly?
Preferably Qom than Tehran, but yeah, the IRGC should fear American might rather than be taking possession of M1A1s as ClownCatastrophe would have it.
By the way, since this Danish story is a tad old, today’s good news is that Izzat al-Douri met his end in Iraq. The sad part of that story is that ISIS, while long in league with the scumbucket Douri, now wanted his head, so any assistance the U.S. provided in Douri’s killing is merely doing ISIS’s work for them. Still, monsters like Douri are better dead, no matter who may benefit alongside.
Why, other than stupidity, would the Danes for even a minute entertain that their warships have ever not been targeted by both the former USSR and now Russia if hostilities ever broke out. The war principles of the USSR and now Russia have always been that the moment they believed that they could win a war against the West they would launch a pre-emptive nuclear first strike.
The philosophy of the Soviet General Staff is no different from that of the horsemen whom I had watched riding the desert. `If you want to stay alive, kill your enemy. The quicker you finish him off, the less chance he will have to use his own gun.’ In essence, this is the whole theoretical basis on which their plans for a third world war have been drawn up.
The theory is known unofficially in the General Staff as the `axe theory’. It is stupid, say the Soviet generals, to start a fist-fight if your opponent may use a knife. It is just as stupid to attack him with a knife if he may use an axe. The more terrible the weapon which your opponent may use, the more decisively you must attack him, and the more quickly you must finish him off. Any delay or hesitation in doing this will just give him a fresh opportunity to use his axe on you. To put it briefly, you can only prevent your enemy from using his axe if you use your own first.
The `axe theory’ was put forward in all Soviet manuals and handbooks to be read at regimental level and higher. In each of these one of the main sections was headed `Evading the blow’. These handbooks advocated, most insistently, the delivery of a massive pre-emptive attack on the enemy, as the best method of self-protection. This recommendation was not confined to secret manuals-non-confidential military publications carried it as well.
But this was trivial by comparison to the demonstration which the Soviet Union gave the whole world at the beginning of the 1970s, with the official publication of data about the Soviet anti-missile defence system. This whole system was, in reality, totally inadequate, but the idea behind it provides an excellent illustration of the Soviet philosophy on nuclear war. By contrast to the United States, the Soviet Union had no thought of protecting its strategic rockets with an anti-missile system. The best protection for rockets in a war is to use them immediately. Could any one devise a more effective way of defending them?
Kind of makes you wonder just how interesting August/September 2016 is going to be, huh?
they should hide those ships somewhere putin won’t think to look
that’s what i would do
The Moskva River right next to the Kremlin? They could give him a surprise birthday salute.
yes yes that will do nicely
Jesus. Just how big are these Danish warships? We talking Galactica-size?
Well, you’ve seen how ostentatiously Putin portrays his masculinity, and we know what that means. Probably all his weapons are about the same size.