Dear CCI Friends,
We Americans are told we need new supersonic missiles that are 5 times faster than the speed of sound in order to ward off an attack from Russia or China.
We who keep up with Russia closely are absolutely certain that Russia has no intention to start a war with us, nor would China. Why would these countries risk a war after renovating their major cities with new 40-story buildings, concentrating on consumer production throughout the world and re-establishing their classical cultures? A war to demolish all that they are working so hard to rebuild in the past 20 years??? Come on now!
This war business is all in the minds of isolated men in the basements of the Pentagon, the RAND corporation and a few other U.S. think tanks. They are still living out the US-USSR era on their drawing boards! These institutions have no focus but to plan wars. How can we draw down these American mega-industries that get obscene amounts of money from government contracts to manufacture these heinous weapons?
Russia is deeply concerned about a NATO attack from the nearby Baltic states where US troops, equipment, planes and missiles are located. They have created the supersonic plane shown in the photo below to assure NATO that any missile headed toward Russia will create immediate retaliation on the U.S. Both countries would be blown off the planet. We hope and pray for no accidents that could appear as an attack. This is why our top retired Defense Secretaries and Generals say we are living in the most dangerous time ever, including the Cuban missile crisis. Most Americans seem unaware of this situation. Scan the article below the photo.
Sharon Tennison
Center for Citizen Initiatives
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Hypersonic Weapons And National (In) Security
Russian Kinzhal missile carried by a MiG-31K (Wikimedia Commons)October 6, 2019
By Rajan Menon
Hypersonic weapons close in on their targets at a minimum speed of Mach 5, five times the speed of sound or 3,836.4 miles an hour. They are among the latest entrants in an arms competition that has embroiled the United States for generations, first with the Soviet Union, today with China and Russia. Pentagon officials tout the potential of such weaponry and the largest arms manufacturers are totally gung-ho on the subject. No surprise there. They stand to make staggering sums from building them, especially given the chronic “cost overruns” of such defense contracts — $163 billion in the far-from-rare case of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
Voices within the military-industrial complex — the Defense Department; mega-defense companies like Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grumman, Boeing, and Raytheon; hawkish armchair strategists in Washington-based think tanks and universities; and legislators from places that depend on arms production for jobs — insist that these are must-have weapons. Their refrain: unless we build and deploy them soon we could suffer a devastating attack from Russia and China.