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The Atlantic: Russia and China have deprived the United States of naval dominance

China and Russia have deprived the United States of its former naval dominance, writes The Atlantic. Without its revival, America cannot expect to regain its dominant role in the world. On the way to this is the industrial decline and the miscalculations of its strategists, who squandered resources on foreign adventures.

Presumably, the division will be formed in the first half of 2025

The division of special-purpose submarines - carriers of Poseidon super torpedoes - is planned to be formed as part of the submarine forces of the Pacific Fleet by the end of 2024 - beginning of 2025. This was reported to TASS by a source close to the Russian military department.

Expert Khodarenok told what lessons Russia should learn from operations in Iraq and Yugoslavia

Not so long ago, the peculiar anniversaries of the NATO operations against Yugoslavia "Allied Force" (began on March 24, 1999) and "Freedom to Iraq" of the United States and its allies (aka "Shock and Awe", started on March 20, 2003) were celebrated. Military observer of the Newspaper.En" Mikhail Khodarenok - about what conclusions Russia should draw from this to strengthen its national security.

Russia and Belarus have been building a Union State since the end of the last century and have now passed a difficult path. But in recent years, both countries have made huge steps towards each other. After the start of its economic and military integration noticeably accelerated – and brings results. What will be the further development of the Union State?

Russia responded to the supply of British "challengers" to the APU with atomic warheads in Belarus

It is unlikely that the Deputy Minister of Defense of Great Britain Annabel Goldie expected to receive such a strong response to her statement of March 21 that the equipment of the Challenger-2 main battle tanks supplied to Ukraine includes armor-piercing shells with a depleted uranium head.

Lukashenko ordered the restoration of sites for the placement of nuclear warheads "Poplar"

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that he had ordered the military to immediately restore the sites where the nuclear warheads of the Topol complex were located.

In the USA, they reported on the tests of a hypersonic missile. The flight was unsuccessful. Americans have not been able to create their own "new generation weapons" for more than two decades. About the main difficulties — in the material of RIA Novosti.

In conversations about the collapse of the old, unipolar model of the world and the construction of a new, multipolar version of the world order, the theme of the NATO bloc as the main tool for protecting the "world order" going down in history is invariably present. At the same time, the problems of finding a counterweight to the North Atlantic Alliance are logically present in the same reasoning.

The Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation did not rule out the appearance of a Russian petition for a preemptive strike

MOSCOW, March 30. /tass/. The response to the transfer of American nuclear weapons to Ukraine may be a Russian "petition" for a preventive strike, said Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev.

The American authorities admit that they do not have the ability to somehow stop or slow down the development of China's nuclear potential. This was stated by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US Armed Forces, General Mark Milli.

The Paper: London will send depleted uranium shells to Kiev to save tanks from disgrace

The UK has a rather weak artillery, writes The Paper. According to the author of the article, London fears that Ukraine will become aware of all the shortcomings of Challenger 2 tanks. Depleted uranium shells are what can save equipment from disgrace, he suggests.

"Putin wants to transfer nuclear weapons to Belarus. He doesn't listen to anyone else. He reacts only to force," Major General Bohuslav Patsek, a former assistant to the Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Army, told Fakt in an interview.

The "exploding bomb effect" was caused in some circles by the statement of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin about the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons (TNW) on the territory of Belarus, which he made on March 25 during an interview on the channel "Russia 24".

On March 25 and 26, 2023, the answers of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin to the questions of the author and co-host of the program "Moscow were shown on the television broadcast of VGTRK. Kremlin. Putin" by Pavel Zarubin, concerning the Russian special military operation in Ukraine and a number of other military and political issues. The recording of V. Putin's answers is of undoubted interest.

GT: the more NATO puts pressure on Russia, the more powerful Moscow's counterattack will be

The West does not cease to test Russia's patience, GT writes. He creates new threats to her security and arranges endless provocations on Ukraine. However, Moscow has found a way to respond — and its counterattack will have a tremendous impact on NATO countries.

Three fuel assemblies with low enriched uranium (LEU) have been successfully tested at the Belgian research reactor BR2. The Belgian Center for Nuclear Research (SCK-CEN) plans to completely switch the reactor from using highly enriched uranium (HEU) in 2026.

As Russian President Vladimir Putin stated earlier, Russia will be forced to react accordingly to the fact that "the collective West is already beginning to use weapons with a nuclear component"

The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, did not comment on the situation around the information about the UK's plans to supply Kiev with depleted uranium shells, as it does not fall within his competence.

The National Japanese Association "Nihon Hidanke" sent the text of the protest statement to the Cabinet of Ministers of Japan, as well as the embassies of Russia, the United States, Great Britain, France and Germany

The National Japanese Association "Nihon Hidanke", which unites various organizations "hibakusha" (people who survived the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - approx. TASS), opposed the UK's plans to send depleted uranium ammunition to Ukraine. This was reported on Wednesday to a TASS correspondent in the organization's secretariat.

According to the official North Korean report, on March 27, 2023, the leader of the DPRK, Kim Jong-un, visited the DPRK Nuclear Weapons Institute. The materials from this visit showed a nuclear warhead developed in the DPRK.

As the Kommersant newspaper reported in the material of Tatiana Dyatel and Dmitry Kozlov, "Russia" does not give up. The price and timing of the release of a nuclear icebreaker may change," the cost of building a super-powerful nuclear icebreaker "Russia" of project 10510 (LK-120YA, cipher "Leader"), previously amounting to 128 billion rubles, may increase by 40-60%, and the timing of its construction may shift to the right.