The Clinton Trap

The Oreshnik (Walnut, Hazel) missile strike came as a surprise to the West, and at that point, a very important question arises. Why did the Oreshnik strike and the very fact that Russia turned out to be the world leader in the development of strategic and tactical ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear and non-nuclear warheads come as a surprise to the United States and the entire West?

After all, Vladimir Putin has been talking about Russia developing new types of weapons since 2018, when he announced the Avangard missile, capable of delivering up to 15 warheads flying at a speed of 28 M (9.6 km per second) and capable of changing flight trajectory, and the Burevestnik missile that has nuclear engine, capable of operating also as nuclear power plant in space, and flying both in the atmosphere and (as an option) in space for as long as it is required by the control centre, and the Poseidon underwater drone that carries a nuclear warhead of enormous power at great depth and at enormous speed, that, when detonated underwater off the coast, can wash away everything within a thousand square kilometres of territory with a wave several hundred meters high, and medium-range hypersonic missiles.
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