Putin announces successful test of Poseidon nuclear submarine missile

This time without wearing a military jacket, Vladimir Putin announces another successfully tested missile. It is the 'Poseidon', which for the Russian president, wearing a suit and tie next to the soldiers of the 18th Combined Army of the Southern District, has no competition: 'There is nothing like it in the world'.

It is a nuclear-powered submarine torpedo, capable of triggering a radioactive wave motion in the oceans to render coastal cities uninhabitable, as well as destroying flora and fauna. 'For the first time,' says Putin, 'we have succeeded not only in launching it from a carrier submarine, but also in launching the nuclear power unit on which this device has spent a certain amount of time. "This is a huge success"

A power, which would be superior to that of the Sarmat, 'our most promising intercontinental missile'. The latter, developed since 2011, has not yet entered service: 'But it will come soon,' says the Russian president on the subject.

These announcements come on top of the one made on 27 October regarding the Burevestnik missile, 'another invincible weapon according to Putin'. And they all fit into the scenario of tension with the United States over developments in the war in Ukraine. A few weeks ago, in fact, US President Trump announced that he wanted to lift restrictions on the Ukrainians from using long-range Western weapons to strike Russian refineries and plants.

And not only that, because the news presented by Putin could serve to put pressure on the US regarding the negotiation of the New Start treaty. It is an agreement, signed in 2010 and entered into force in 2011, on the reduction of nuclear weapons between the two countries. It will expire next February and Moscow's intention is to extend it.