Revelations 6:3-4 “when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.
Important Takeaways:
- US Navy Scrambles To Catch Up With Russia, China; Wants Hypersonic Anti-Ship Missile ‘HALO’ Before 2028
- The U.S. Navy, in its latest budget request, has highlighted the need for an air-launched hypersonic anti-ship cruise missile before 2028, for it to counter Russia and China.
- Recently, a video from China had shown a People’s Liberation Army Xian H-6N bomber carrying a potent and mysterious air-launched anti-ship ballistic missile slung along the bottom of its fuselage.
- Two days later, the Chinese state released a video showing the test-fire of a mysterious missile, thought to be hypersonic YJ-21, from one of its huge Type 055 destroyers
- Though the U.S. Navy’s priority right now would be to acquire a hypersonic anti-ship cruise missile, it may later develop HALO to incorporate land-attack capability. That being case, the budget proposal makes it clear that the Navy views HALO as instrumental in ensuring the Force’s ability to conduct aerial stand-off strikes
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Revelations 6:3-4 “when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.
Important Takeaways:
- As Finland considers NATO membership, citizens mobilize for an invasion by Russia
- The relationship has grown increasingly tense since Russia invaded Ukraine two months ago. For the first time, Finland is considering seeking membership in NATO, prompting threats of retaliation from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
- Military readiness is ingrained in the culture of this country of 5.5 million people that shares an 833-mile border and a long, complicated history with Russia.
- When the Finnish Reservists’ Assn. recently announced wartime defense courses for civilian women in the southern town of Haemeenlinna, the 400 slots filled almost immediately, with a waiting list of 500 more.
- Topics will include shooting, cybersecurity and how to manage the first several days of an invasion from abroad.
- The Defense Ministry released a statement Thursday saying it “urgently” wants to change its policy to allow civilians who enroll in the shooting courses to use military weapons and ammunition, with supervision from the army.
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Revelations 6:3-4 “when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.
Important Takeaways:
- Putin’s plot to invade Moldova as ‘second stage’ of brutal invasion laid bare
- The Russian army is planning to establish full control over the Donbas and Southern Ukraine and to ensure a land corridor to the Crimea, according to Rustam Minnekaev, deputy commander of the Central Military District
- He also warned taking back control over Southern Ukraine will provide Russian troops with another outlet to Moldova’s pro-Russian breakaway region of Transdniestria, which borders Ukraine. Kyiv fears this could be used as a launching pad for new attacks.
- Meanwhile, Moldova parliament speaker Igor Grosu revealed his country has taken another huge step towards “EU integration.”
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Revelations 6:3-4 “when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.
Important Takeaways:
- Russian state TV hosts giggle uncontrollably as they discuss NUKING New York with one of Putin’s Satan 2 hypersonic missile
- TV hosts on state-owned Russia-1 channel laughed as they spoke about striking New York City with nuclear weapon
- It comes after Russia reported the first successful test launch of the Satan 2
- On Russia-1, the anchor said: ‘We know right away where to send it via the North Pole or the South Pole. We only have one target.’
- When asked about the size of the territory the Satan 2 would be able to destroy, the presenter said whilst laughing: ‘If 7.5 megatons will be delivered to the territory of our so-called partners – the word “partner” is very important – then objects like the city of New York, a good city but it would be gone.’
- ‘Completely gone, with one rocket. Completely, I mean completely,’ the presenter said whilst smiling.
- ‘So it’s better we don’t. Americans always feared our heavy rockets,’ he said, prompting laughter from those in the studio.
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Revelations 6:3-4 “when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.
Important Takeaways:
- Russia tests new Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile in what Putin hails as ‘truly unique weapon’
- Missile launch comes amid war in Ukraine and heightened global tensions
- The ministry said the missile was launched Wednesday from the Plesetsk launch facility in northern Russia and its practice warheads hit designated targets at the Kura firing range on the far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula.
- This truly unique weapon will strengthen the combat potential of our armed forces, reliably ensure Russia’s security from external threats and provide food for thought for those who, in the heat of frenzied aggressive rhetoric, try to threaten our country,” Putin said
- The Sarmat is a heavy missile, intended to replace the Soviet-made Voyevoda missile which was code-named Satan by the West.
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Revelations 6:3-4 “when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.
Important Takeaways:
- US Sanctions Fall Short of Halting Russian War Machine as Ukraine War Enters New Phase
- “When the Biden administration announced sanctions on the 24th of February, they specifically said, in fact, the president himself tweeted, that their goal was to reduce the ‘ruble to rubble.’ Unfortunately, as we’ve seen today with the ruble trading at higher levels against the dollar since before the attack, by their own metric, the Biden administration has failed,” said Marshall Billingslea, former Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing at the Treasury Department
- As the fighting in Ukraine again escalates, the Biden administration says it’s committed to raising pressure on Russia.
- Many observers are asking, however, will it be enough?
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Revelations 6:3-4 “when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.
Important Takeaways:
- Russia launches full-scale offensive in eastern Ukraine, declares ‘another stage’ of war has started
- The ongoing campaign – which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is calling the “Battle of the Donbas” – comes after Russian forces shifted away from trying to capture the capital, Kyiv.
- No matter how many soldiers are drawn there, we will defend ourselves,” Zelenskyy said in an address
- A Ukrainian military commander is claiming Tuesday that the Russian military has started using bunker-buster bombs on a steel plant in Mariupol that soldiers are defending.
- Civilians are also believed to be sheltering at the plant, which covers the territory of around 4 square miles.
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Revelations 6:3-4 “when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.
Important Takeaways:
- Russia’s damaged Black Sea flagship sinks in latest setback
- The flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet, a guided-missile cruiser that became a potent target of Ukrainian defiance in the opening days of the war, sank Thursday after it was heavily damaged in the latest setback for Moscow’s invasion.
- Ukrainian officials said their forces hit the vessel with missiles, while Russia acknowledged a fire aboard the Moskva but no attack.
- In his nightly video address to the nation, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy alluded to the sinking as he told Ukrainians they should be proud of having survived 50 days under attack when the Russians “gave us a maximum of five.”
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Revelations 6:3-4 “when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.
Important Takeaways:
- US cannot ‘take lightly’ threat Russia could use nuclear weapons – CIA chief
- The threat of Russia potentially using tactical or low-yield nuclear weapons in Ukraine cannot be taken lightly, but the CIA has not seen a lot of practical evidence reinforcing that concern, CIA Director William Burns said
- He spoke at Georgia Tech of the “potential desperation” and setbacks dealt Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose forces have suffered heavy losses and have been forced to retreat from some parts of northern Ukraine after failing to capture Kyiv.
- For those reasons, “none of us can take lightly the threat posed by a potential resort to tactical nuclear weapons or low-yield nuclear weapons,” Burns said.
- That said, despite “rhetorical posturing” by the Kremlin about putting the world’s largest nuclear arsenal on high alert, “We haven’t seen a lot of practical evidence of the kind of deployments or military dispositions that would reinforce that concern.”
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Revelations 6:3-4 “when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.
Important Takeaways:
- Russia threatens new nuclear deployments if Sweden, Finland join NATO
- Russia says a nuclear-free Baltic region would no longer be possible if Finland and Sweden join NATO, alluding to additional nuclear deployments in Europe.
- The comments come a day after Finland and Sweden said their decision on whether to apply for NATO membership would come within a matter of weeks.
- Sweden and Finland are members of the EU, but not NATO, and the latter shares an 830-mile border with Russia
- Russia has long warned against any enlargement of NATO, reportedly accusing the alliance of being “a tool geared towards confrontation.” Ahead of its invasion of Ukraine, it demanded that the organization, which was created in 1949 in response to the threat posed by the Soviet Union, return to its pre-1997 borders — something the U.S. and NATO refused.
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