Yikes!
Via the rather bellicose, belligerent (all the belli words), Ukraine's own, United24 Media, August 18:
Poland is preparing for the possibility of a full-scale war with Russia while warning that Moscow could stage a major provocation within the next several months, Deputy Defense Minister Cezary Tomczyk said, according to Polsat News on August 17.
Tomczyk said Poland’s government and military are no longer treating a confrontation with Russia as an unthinkable scenario.
Warsaw is actively planning for how the country would operate under the worst possible conditions, even as officials hope those preparations never have to be put into practice.
“We are preparing for war, hoping that it will never begin,” Tomczyk said.
Poland’s preparations extend well beyond its armed forces. According to the deputy minister, Warsaw is also strengthening the country’s energy sector and critical infrastructure against the possibility of future aggression....
....MUCH MORE
Time for all the Ukrainian guys in Wroclaw to return home to tie-down the Russians to the east as Poland pivots north to Kaliningrad.
From November 2021 (pre-invasion):
"Lithuania and Poland Want to ‘Recover’ Kaliningrad, Russian Analysts Say"
That would certainly shake things up:
Kind of reminds one of Hitler and the Danzig Corridor, as it was then known, now Gdansk.
Also at United24 Media, August 18:
Russia’s “Doomsday” Submarine Finally Goes to Sea—Built Around Six Poseidon Nuclear Weapons
Some background:
And in Other News: "Russia Building Coastal Base for ‘Doomsday Nuke’"
Russia Prepares To Test Nuclear Powered Doomsday Drone Torpedo
Possibly related:
"A Deep-Diving Sub. A Deadly Fire. And Russia's Secret Undersea Agenda"
One of the curious aspects of this event was the comment at the funeral
for the dead officers—mainly Captains with at least two Heroes of the
Russian Federation, very high ranking and curious in itself—the comment:
....Russian servicemen ‘averted planetary catastrophe’ during nuclear submarine accident, military official claims at funeral....We now know the officer who made this extraordinary statement was himself a Captain so probably authorized to speak, whether injudicious or deceptive I do not know.....
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.....Tragic, and potentially disastrous for the immediate area if the reactor
casing had opened but not something you'd call "a planetary
catastrophe".
Among other reports we've seen (not verified so grain of salt) is that
seven of the dead were captains, meaning whatever they were up to was
pretty important. The fact the Russians are repairing and returning the
boat to its mission would also point in that direction.
So what was the submarine or its submersible—capable of 20,000 foot dives—carrying?
The best guess I've seen is a high-yield, 100 - 200 megaton, cobalt thermonuclear bomb.
A bomb that size, two to four times more powerful than the biggest ever
exploded, the Soviet Tsar Bomba (limited to 50 MT to allow the delivery
plane a chance to escape) a bomb that size is awful enough but if it is
encased in cobalt it becomes the most lethal munition ever built.
Here's MIT physicist Max
Dr. Strangelove Is Back: Say ‘Hi’ to the Cobalt Bomb!
"Now Most Dreaded Weapon, Cobalt Bomb, Can Be Built
It is this type of hydrogen bomb of which Albert Einstein said: "If successful, radioactive poisoning of the atmosphere, and hence annihilation of any life on earth will have been brought with in the range of technical possibilities."Volume 72, 2016 - Issue 4: Security at sea, and under it:
Would Russia’s undersea “doomsday drone” carry a cobalt bomb?
People smarter than I are speculating this might be what's going on up in the Arctic.
