Now we're getting new scare stories out of the Pentagon and militarist members of Congress claiming that a new "missile gap" is developing: Those sneaky Russkies, we're told, "are building ultrafast missile technology at a quicker speed than the U.S," and have jumped ahead of us, developing hyper-speed maneuverable long-range nuclear cruise missiles that could be launched in waves, fly at multiple times the speed of sound, and alter their course significantly at low altitude to avoid detection and interception while reaching targets in the US.
Que horrible!
Unmentioned is the critical question of why Russia, with its struggling and much smaller economy compared to the US, and China, with its grave environmental, economic and internal political problems, would be devoting valuable resources to this mad endeavor. The answer is"
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