BATTLE FOR WORLD / REUTERS | February 25, 2019: The article highlights that Russian state television has listed U.S. military facilities that Moscow would target, the Pentagon, the presidential retreat in Camp David, Maryland; Jim Creek, a naval communications base in Washington state, etc., in the event of a nuclear strike by the U.S. on its territory. And that the hypersonic missile Russia is developing would be able to hit them in less than five minutes after launch.

The Russian TV news report, the U.S. said was bellicose in standards, as the U.S. media quickly pushed aside similar war rhetoric coming from hotheads in Washington DC about putting short-range missiles in Europe to attack Russia.

The Russian state TV broadcast on the evening of Sunday (February 24) days after President Vladimir Putin said Moscow was militarily ready for a “Cuban Missile”-style crisis if the United States wanted one.

Tensions are rising as the Russians fear that the United States might deploy intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe as the Cold War-era arms-control INF treaty unravels. President Putin has said Russia would be forced to respond by placing hypersonic nuclear missiles on submarines near U.S. waters.

The United States says it has "no immediate plans to deploy such missiles in Europe" and has dismissed Putin’s warnings as disingenuous propaganda. But Washington's "no immediate plan" could be a delay tactic not to own up to actual plans regarding nuclear missile deployment in Europe.

At the moment the U.S. says that it does not currently have ground-based intermediate-range nuclear missiles placed in Europe. (However, some in the alternative media have speculated as of February 25th that nuclear missiles have been moved into Ukraine.)

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