Global SITREP C2-24: Rockets Red Glare

RS-26 Rubezh IRBM a/k/a RS-26 Oreshnik MRBM

22 November 2024: The Russian ballistic Missile attack on Dnipro, Ukraine yesterday morning appears to have been a new variant of a Russian Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile known as the RS-26 Rubezh. 

Russia's clandestine development of this weapon almost certainly was the reason President Trump and SECDEF Esper announced the US's unilateral withdrawal from the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (a/k/a INF Treaty) on August 2, 2019. The development of the RS-26 Rubezh was a one of a series of blatant violations of the INF Treaty signed in 1987 by U.S. President Ronald Regan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev.

Development continued and an MRBM variant of the Rubezh was rebranded as (RS-26) Oreshnik. It is difficult to distinguish between these two missiles which led to major confusion in expert media reporting yesterday on the identity of the missile. 

RS-26 Oreshnik test launch

However, what is now known puts yesterday's strike in an entirely new perspective. First and foremost is that the Oreshnik strike is the first use of an IRBM or MRBM in the history of warfare. The proverbial genie is out of the bottle, and with this strike a clear signal was sent; the world has crossed into unknown territory. Secondly, analysis of imagery makes clear that the Oreshnik warhead contained six (6) warheads or MIRVs (Multiple Independent Re-entry Vehicles). Three were either inert, kinetic or decoys and three had conventional high explosives. These MIRV warheads were also impervious to Ukrainian air defenses; they never even came close to being shot down due to their hypersonic speed and maneuverability. A third aspect, not widely reported, is that ALL of the missiles Russia has launched into Ukraine in more than 1,000 days of warfare were capable of carrying nuclear warheads of various yields.

So, with Russia having let the genie out of the bottle who's to say that Israel would not deploy a mix of its Jericho-2 MRBMs and Jericho-3 MIRVed IRBMs in a follow-up strike on Iran's now virtually defenseless nuclear and petroleum infrastructure. Maneuverable warheads can arrive on target from every direction on the compass.

To be continued...

 

Global SITREP C1-24: Trump Returns as POTUS

 

President-elect Trump Addesses Supporters in Florida

November 6, 2024: Donald J. Trump is the President-elect of the United States of America.

UPDATED 7 November 2024: Following a brief pause to collect intel, we continue. Here is what is now known about the incoming Trump Administration's policy, particularly with respect to Israel. 

Contrary to the weeks and months of the Global Left's demands for Israel to unilaterally end the wars against HAMAS, Hezbollah, Yemen's Houthi's and Iran and its proxies in Iraq and Syria (i.e. a unilateral Israeli surrender), and coupled with the Biden/Harris Administration's policy of interference in preventing a decisive 'Israel Victory' over these enemies, the Trump Administration on January 20th, if not sooner via back-channels, will tell Netanyahu's coalition government to end the wars by going all-out and allowing the IDF to achieve "decisive" victories over all of these enemies. 

In fact, this is what our President-elect has said to PM Netanyahu privately. The global media only reported that Trump wants Israel to end the war, omitting in its entirety the second half of the sentence: End the war by achieving a decisive victory (on every front). Students of Bible prophecy can clearly see how this approach dovetails perfectly with the inspired prophetic words from Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Joshua as well as Asaph's Psalm 83. 

Decisive victories win wars. Period.

UPDATE 17 November 2024: With a little more than 60 days remaining to the inauguration of the second Trump Administration, the image of the immense changes coming are getting clearer with each passing day. This is most poignantly reflected in the nominations the head key cabinet posts, the appointments to be made during recess, and the mainstream, fake news media handwringing angst as each new cabinet head is announced. Several nominees have thus far been the target of grotesque attempts at character assassination. The astute among us can surely see where this is heading. 

Nevertheless, God is in control and His purposes will be realized; the prophecies of His seers of ancient time will come to pass exactly as foretold.

The Psalm 83 war continues to rage without respite: rockets, missiles and drones in the hundreds launched from Lebanon, Syria and Iraq target Israel's civilian communities on a daily basis. All of these weapons were manufactured in the Islamic Republic of Iran or locally by IRGC-QF experts. 

The IDF continues to press its relentless northward advance into southern Lebanon as it destroys more Hezbollah warfighting infrastructure on a 24/7 basis. Also, with respect to the next 60 days, Israel has a free hand to take out other Iranian nuclear infrastructure. Israel's destruction of a key nuclear site at Parchin in October has not completely erased the Iranian nuclear threat. Additionally, Iran has been warned by the United States that any major escalation of the war on its part will result in US military strikes. What we can know with certainty that there is nothing in God-breathed Scripture which indicates the type of destruction in Israel that an Iranian nuclear attack could cause. Syria, however, according to Isaiah 17 is another matter entirely.

To be continued...