A Russian blogger who goes by the pseudonym Yalensis has argued on his “Awful Avalanche” blog that the June 1 Ukrainian Operation Spiderweb drone attacks on Russian airfields were intended to be a prelude to a NATO nuclear attack on Russia. “If you believe Ukrainian social media, which was exploding in screaming orgasms all day yesterday, they completely neutered Russia’s nuclear deterrence capability,” he wrote on June 2. “The very next step would, of course, be a NATO nuclear first strike against Russia, without worry of retaliation,” he wrote, a bit tongue in cheek but obviously reflecting a real intention. “Waking up this morning and looking out the window, I was happy to see that the world is still here. So perhaps the pro-Ukrainians have exaggerated their effectiveness.”
In a follow-up posting today, Yalensis adds much more seriously that the reason that Russian nuclear bombers were sitting outside in the sun instead of under anti-drone shelters “is because of the START treaty, which requires both sides to pose their planes for the satellite photos of the other side. Russia was still abiding by this treaty while the other side was plotting to eliminate Russia’s strategic deterrence all in one fell swoop.”
