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What Annie Jacobsen thinks about Russia

@annie-jacobsen · 16 positions · 0 changes of mind

Investigative journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist, author of Area 51, Operation Paperclip, Surprise, Kill, Vanish and Nuclear War: A Scenario.

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4 dated positions, 2024, in their own words. Our reading of what Annie Jacobsen has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingA nuclear war between the United States and Russia would kill five billion people.

    Their wordsI’m coming back at you with a very dark answer and a very big number. And that number is 5 billion people.

    ↗Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy | Lex Fridman Podcast #420youtube.com 1st of 16 in this recording

    America

    Interesting

  3. Our readingAmerican missile defence is a fiction: 44 interceptors that work about half the time cannot answer the 1,670 warheads Russia has deployed.

    Their wordsFirst of all, we have 44 interceptor missiles total, period, full stop. Let me repeat, 44. Earlier we were talking about Russia’s 1,670 deployed nuclear weapons. How are those 44 interceptor missiles going to work? And they also have a success rate of around 50%. So they work 50% of the time.

    ↗Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy | Lex Fridman Podcast #420youtube.com 6th of 16 in this recording

    America

    Interesting

  5. Our readingAmerican ICBMs do not have the range to reach North Korea without flying over Russia, which is the flaw that turns a limited counterattack into Armageddon.

    Their wordsthere is an absolutely existential flaw in the system, which Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta confirmed with me, which is that our ICBMs do not have enough range. If we launch a counterattack against, say, North Korea, our ICBMs must fly over Russia. They must fly over Russia.

    ↗Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy | Lex Fridman Podcast #420youtube.com 9th of 16 in this recording

    America

    Interesting

  7. Our readingRussia has abandoned its long-standing official position that it would wait to absorb a nuclear attack before launching.

    Their wordsBut that was their official position, and that changed just two years ago when Putin gave a speech and he said that their position had changed, that they will no longer wait to absorb an attack.

    ↗Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy | Lex Fridman Podcast #420youtube.com 13th of 16 in this recording

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