{"id":194967,"date":"2019-09-18T07:25:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T07:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=194967"},"modified":"2019-09-20T07:08:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T07:08:42","slug":"how-russian-and-iran-beat-their-opponents-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=194967","title":{"rendered":"How Russian And Iran Beat Their Opponents’ Strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moon of Alabama \u2013 Sept 17, 2017<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Sarmat test in December 2017. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Over the last decades Russia and Iran both needed to develop means to protect themselves against an ever growing threat from the United States and its allies. Both found unique ways to build deterrence that fit their situation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Neither the U.S. nor its allies reacted to those developments by adopting their strategies or military means. It is only recently that U.S. woke up to the real situation. The loss of half its oil export capacity<\/a><\/strong><\/span> may finally wake up Saudi Arabia. Most other U.S. allies are still asleep.<\/span><\/p>\n

When NATO extended into east Europe and the U.S. left the Anti-Ballistic-Missile Treaty Russia announced that it would develop countermeasures to keep the U.S. deterred from attacking it. Ten years later Russia delivered on its promise.<\/span><\/p>\n

It had developed a number of new weapons<\/strong><\/span><\/a> that can defeat the ballistic missile defense the U.S. installed. It also put emphasis on its own air and missile defense as well as on radar and on electronic countermeasures<\/strong><\/span><\/a> that are so good that a U.S. general described as “eye-watering”.<\/span><\/p>\n

All this allowed Putin to troll Trump<\/a><\/strong><\/span> by offering him Russian hypersonic missiles. As we analyzed:<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump is wrong in claiming that the U.S. makes its own hypersonic weapons. While the U.S. has some in development none will be ready before 2022 and likely only much later. Hypersonic weapons are a Soviet\/Russian invention. The ones Russia now puts into service are already the third generation. U.S. development of such missiles is at least two generations behind Russia’s.<\/span><\/p>\n

That Russian radar can ‘see’ stealth aircraft has been known since 1999 when a Yugoslav army unit shot down a U.S. F-117 Nighthawk stealth aircraft. Russian air and missile defense proved in Syria that it can defeat mass attacks by drones as well as by cruise missiles. U.S.-made air and missile defense in Saudi Arabia fails to take down even the primitive missiles Houthi forces fire against it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yesterday, during a press conference in Ankara with his Turkish and Iranian colleagues, Putin trolled Saudi Arabia<\/strong><\/span><\/a> (video @38:20<\/a><\/strong><\/span>) with a similar offer as he had made to Trump:<\/span><\/p>\n

Cont. reading: How Russian And Iran Beat Their Opponents’ Strategies<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saudi Arabia, like the U.S., never took its opponents seriously. It bombed Yemen to bits and never expected retaliation. Now it\u2019s paying the price<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,51,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Iran","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194967"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194970,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194967\/revisions\/194970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}