Vladimir is watching.
Fox News headlines: https://www.foxnews.com/world/
Russia is closely monitoring US nuclear test in Nevada, Putin’s spokesperson says
Russian state media says underground activity in Nevada should be given an ‘international legal assessment’
The story reports:
“Russian state run media is reporting Friday that the Kremlin is closely monitoring a high-explosive experiment that the U.S. carried out this week at a nuclear test site in Nevada.
Wednesday’s test used chemicals and radioisotopes to “validate new predictive explosion models” that can help detect atomic blasts in other countries, Bloomberg reported, citing the Department of Energy.
The Interfax News Agency said Friday that Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters at a briefing that Russia is now closely monitoring the situation.
‘Earlier, the Federation Council [of the Federal Assembly of Russia] stated that the underground tests on October 18 in Nevada should be given an international legal assessment, since the United States is a signatory to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) and is obliged to refrain from violating this agreement,’ Interfax also reported.”
In other words? As might be expected, Vladimir Putin is closely monitoring the country he sees as his enemy. And one has to believe there’s more going on than just keeping an eye on nuclear tests.
There is a long – very long – history of the Russian government of the moment spying in and on the United States. For those who may be unfamiliar, all the way back in the 1940’s a young Republican Congressman from California outed the spying activities of one Alger Hiss. Hiss had been a young State Department aide in the Roosevelt, his status rising to the point that he attended the 1945 Yalta Conference with President Franklin Roosevelt, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and Britain’s Winston Churchill. Eventually he was convicted of perjury for lying about having spied for the Soviet Union.
Russian spying or simply keeping tabs on the US and various presidential administrations is hardly new.
This time around the news arrives that this Russian leader is “closely monitoring US nuclear test.”
Shocking.
Not.