West Shocked Putin Develops 'Nuclear Missile,' Again
Vladimir Putin's latest test of the Poseidon nuclear submarine torpedo has the Western press in a flurry, with headlines warning of 'radioactive tsunamis.' The framing suggests a sudden, unpredictable escalation. Yet, such a weapon is not exactly hot off the assembly line; the Poseidon was first announced by Putin in 2018, part of a long-standing modernization effort partly in response to US
withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 2002 under George W. Bush. This wasn't a secret project developed in a cave last week; it's the predictable outcome of a global arms race. One might wonder why the US and its allies, who maintain their own vast nuclear arsenals and consistently upgrade them, recoil in performative horror when another nuclear power does the same. This isn't grand
strategy; it's a mutual assured destruction pep rally where everyone's trying to look scarier than the next guy. The media, of course, plays along, focusing on the dramatic 'what if' without ever questioning the 'why' of global nuclear proliferation. It's a convenient distraction from the fact that all major powers have such toys, and have for decades.