by Thierry Meyssan

For two years, we in the West have been living under the myth that we will bring Russia to its knees and bring Ukraine into the European Union and the Atlantic Alliance. We will try Vladimir Putin and make Russia pay. Today, this myth is colliding with reality: Moscow now possesses devastating weapons, unparalleled in the West. They make any hope of victory for our coalitions impossible. We will have to acknowledge our mistake. This is not about apologizing for our errors, but about freeing ourselves from them.

Voltaire Network | Paris (France) | 6 November 2025

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On October 26, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chief of Staff, Valery Gerasimov, announced the completion of a project to miniaturize a nuclear reactor and install it on a missile. They reported conducting a test launch of the 9M730 Burevestnik missile over a distance of 14,000 kilometers. The unique feature of this nuclear-powered weapon (and therefore its range is virtually unlimited) is its ability to be guided in such a way as to bypass interceptor sites. This, according to Russian authorities, makes it an unstoppable missile.

On October 29, President Putin tested a Status-6 Poseidon torpedo, a nuclear-powered torpedo. Throughout the Soviet Union, Eurasian military researchers believed that underwater nuclear explosions could trigger massive tsunamis. To achieve this, they needed to be able to launch torpedoes much farther than was possible at the time, in order to avoid the cataclysms they intended to unleash. This has now been accomplished. Mega-tsunamis could devastate cities like Washington or New York, or even naval groups like those of the US aircraft carriers. However, the Poseidon torpedo is much longer than others: 21 meters. It therefore cannot be launched from operational submarines and required its own dedicated vessel for launch. The fact that it can operate underwater almost indefinitely more than compensates for this limitation. In any case, this torpedo ensures that Russia can launch a second strike in the event of a US attack. Until now, the first to launch a nuclear strike was guaranteed to deprive its enemy of its main means of retaliation.

No weapon is ever truly definitive. Each exists within a continuum of technological advancements; each is superseded by another; and ultimately encounters effective defenses or predators. But for the moment, there seems to be no answer to these weapons, any more than there is to Russian supersonic missiles.

In about twenty years, Russia has acquired a plethora of new weapons that surpass all Western technologies.

I explained in *Under Our Eyes* that Russia agreed to come to Syria’s aid in 2012, but only established a presence there at the end of 2015. For nearly three years, it was determined to develop new weapons and came to test them in the Levant. I observed that it possessed prodigious capabilities, far surpassing the achievements of the United States during the Cold War. Of course, these weapons being only prototypes were extremely rare, but everyone already understood that Western domination was nothing more than an illusion.

For example, Russia possessed the capability to disconnect NATO orders from its own weapons. This wasn’t a form of jamming; the weapons simply stopped responding to commands. Since some observers doubted its effectiveness, Russia extended this system to all of Syria. And because it operated within a circular area, it partially extended it, for two days, to Lebanon, Iraq, and Turkey. No civilian aircraft were able to fly. Subsequently, they deployed this weapon in Kaliningrad and the Black Sea.

The West was also testing numerous weapons, such as the tactical nuclear bomb that later devastated the port of Beirut.

In 2018, after the Syrian war had ended, President Vladimir Putin presented his weapons program to parliament [1]. This program comprised six advanced weapons: the Sarmatian (which leaves the atmosphere, orbits the Earth, and re-enters the atmosphere at will) and Kinzhal (dagger) missiles; the nuclear-powered 9M730 Burevestnik and Status-6 Poseidon launchers; the Avantgarde missiles, which combine the characteristics of the Sarmatian and Kinzhal missiles with added maneuverability; and finally, anti-missile lasers. Only the latter are not yet complete.

What were only prototypes in the 2010s became operational and entered mass production during the war in Ukraine.

The Western response was almost inaudible. Only US President Donald Trump spoke out. He regretted that his Russian counterpart had seen fit to reveal his exploits because, in doing so, he was reigniting the arms race. Furthermore, he announced that the United States was resuming its nuclear tests. Donald Trump could hardly do otherwise: deploring Russia’s renewed arms race is a way of explaining that the Pentagon’s military research is lagging far behind and of asserting that Washington is peaceful. Announcing that he will resume nuclear tests is a way of shifting the focus, since none of the new Russian weapons represent an advance in nuclear terms, but only in terms of atomic bomb launchers. To say that he will do this to maintain parity with Russia and China is a blatant lie: Russia has not conducted nuclear tests since 1990 and China since 1996. Moreover, it will take at least two years to rebuild or rehabilitate Cold War-era facilities, and therefore to begin these tests. Until then, the United States is nothing more than a "paper tiger."

We are now reaching the end of hostilities in Ukraine. The Russian army is on the verge of a decisive victory in the Donbas. It will not only capture Pokrovsk, but will also inflict a third defeat on the White Führer, Andriy Biletsky, whose 10,000 men are surrounded. He was in command during the Battle of Mariupol with the Azov Regiment, the spearhead of the "integral nationalists." He also commanded the Battle of Bakhmut, at the head of the 3rd Assault Brigade. And he was also directing the fighting in the Donbas with the 3rd Army Corps. It is unlikely that the Ukrainians will continue to follow him after this series of massacres and defeats.

However, the primary objective of the special operation remains to eliminate the neo-Nazis. Russia also informed the United States on October 20 that it did not intend to give in on territorial concessions, on reducing the number of Ukrainian armed forces, or on guarantees that Ukraine would never join NATO.

The EU’s grandiose dreams are about to collide with reality: it can only continue this war by betraying the very ideals it claims to uphold. Moreover, it has already descended into delusion by feigning ignorance of the fact that the Russian special operation is not a war of invasion against Ukraine, but the implementation of Security Council Resolution 2202. It has convinced itself that it will make Russia pay for the crimes committed or provoked by the West in Ukraine and that it will try and convict Vladimir Putin. Similarly, in the 2010s, it convinced itself that it would force Syria to capitulate and try and convict President Bashar al-Assad and the entire Ba’ath Party [2].

All of this is coming to an end, otherwise the EU will be directly drawn into the war against the Slavs that the United Kingdom and Germany instigated in 1933: the Second World War. And the EU’s armies, stripped of their arsenals, have no hope of resisting for more than two days. This is not about bowing down to a new master, Russia, but simply about acknowledging our mistakes before it is too late.

Thierry Meyssan

Translation
Roger Lagassé

     

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[1] “The new Russian nuclear arsenal restores world bipolarity”, by Thierry Meyssan, Translation Pete Kimberley, Voltaire Network, 6 March 2018.

[2] The fifty-page document, written by the team of the German Volker Perthes on behalf of the Straussian Jeffrey Feltman (number 2 of the UN), will soon be published on this site.