When you boil down the essence of the alleged Russian military threat to America’s homeland security it amounts to just plain barking idiocy; it’s so out to lunch as to be offensive to even a modicum of human intelligence.
As we have seen in Parts 1 & 2, any conceivable threat of a Russian nuclear attack on the American homeland is already in deep checkmate.
That’s because America’s bought and paid for strategic nuclear triad, which bears a de minimis annual operating, maintenance and replacement cost of just $75 billion per year, has upwards of 900 warheads lined up to survive a first strike; and to then deliver a civilization-ending retaliatory strike to the Russian homeland that would be the equivalent of 13,000 Hiroshima’s. It would kill and injure 90 million Russians or 65% of its entire population of men, women and children within hours.
Accordingly, no Russian leader – whether as rational as Putin or a military putsch down the road – would ever give an unprovoked nuclear first strike attack on America a second thought. It’s not remotely in the cards of any future history, and therefore provides zero reason for Washington’s meddling in Ukraine on Russia’s doorstep.
Moreover, the alternative theoretical threat of a conventional military assault on the home territory of America is even more ludicrous. Russia does not remotely have the naval firepower and air-and sea-lift capacities to get even a 500 soldiers to the New Jersey shores, let alone the million-man lethally armed, supported and continuously re-supplied combatant units that would be needed for an invasion of the US that could make a difference.
Again, they have not a single serviceable aircraft carrier, no fully equipped carrier battle groups and a decrepit surface Navy of aging cruisers, destroyers, and frigates, many of Soviet-era design and dispersed across separated fleets. Altogether this remnant of the Soviet era Navy amounts to 1.4 million displacement tons or just 17% of the 8.0 million tons of state-of-the-art surface and attack submarine combatants fielded by the US Navy.
For want of doubt, just consider what would happen to a Russian invasionary armada owing to the 50 cruise-missile equipped US attack submarines that would be lying in wait at the choke points far from the US shores. To wit, this isn’t November 1941 one when six Japanese aircraft carriers – Akagi, Kaga, Sōryū, Hiryū, Shōkaku, and Zuikaku – mbarked silently and unseen on the blue waters of the Western Pacific on the way to Pearl Harbor.
To the contrary, the only place in the world were Russia could assemble a expeditionary fleet of the requisite scale to attack America would be in Sevastopol on the Crimean peninsula. The latter has been its primary warm water port since it was purchased by Catherine the Great from the Ottoman’s in 1783, not stolen from Ukraine in 2014 as the Washington narrative falsely claims.
Here’s the thing. The US Navy usually has two to three carrier battle groups in the vicinity of the Mediterranean Sea and could mobilize more if needed to block the route from Sevastopol to Gibraltar shown below. And, even more lethally, it also has a double digit numbers of the current Los Angeles class, Seawolf-class and state of the art Virginia Class attack submarines that could conduct a shooting gallery exercise at all the choke points along the way. That is, at the Bosporus Strait in Turkey, the narrow passage around the boot of Italy and Sicily, and most especially at the mere 8-mile wide channel at the Pillar of Heracles (Gibraltar).
The truth is, no Russian military leaders would ever send their surface navy on this kind of suicide voyage from Sevastopol to Gibraltar. Unlike in 1941, Washington’s eye’s in the sky would know the minute that Russia began to assemble even a few boats for an armada to be launched from Sevastopol; and a president from either party, like JFK in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, would tell the Kremlin forthwith that the only purpose of such an naval armada would not be to rescue Russian fisherman stranded in Rio de Janeiro, but to attack the homeland of America.
Accordingly, Russia would be told that its Black Sea fleet would be sunk the minute it passed through the Bosporus or beyond, and that would be the end of the Russian invasion of America then and there. The Kremlin would either turn back the fleet in the Black Sea or find it incommunicado in the Davy Jones’ Locker, Mediterranean division.
