Russia's Hypersonic Ballistic Missile a 'Game-Changer,' Downplayed by Western Media: Former CIA Analyst
Wilkerson says the Russian attack on Ukraine last week was as significant as the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima
The hypersonic ballistic missiles that Russia fired into Ukraine last week in response to a long-range attack carried out by Kyiv was a clear message to the West that Moscow has a weapon system that there is no answer to, said Lawrence Wilkerson, retired US Army colonel and former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Wilkerson told the “Dialogue Works” podcast that Russia’s intermediate-range Oreshnik missile is a “game-changer” — similar to the atomic bombs that the U.S. dropped on Japan at the end of WWII.
He said Russia introduced to the world a new kind of weapon system last week that nobody else in the world has, and “that there is no counter to it.”
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“This thing is remarkable and the press has gone out of its way to downplay it, pretend that nothing happened” but the weapon had the blast effect of a nuclear bomb “without the radiation, without the fire, and without the storm winds.”
He said the U.S.’s media reaction to the Oreshnik missile would be the equivalent of the Japanese press describing the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings as a “small fire.”
“No,” he said. “This is a big deal.”
Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia, used last week’s hypersonic missile strike on Ukraine as a reason why Europeans should come out forcefully against further weapons support for Kyiv.