The Next War: Between Biden, Putin, and the Rest of Us

The Next War: Between Biden, Putin, and the Rest of Us

Biden: We must defeat Russia and restore Ukraine’s territorial integrity

Putin: All doors to peace are now closed. Russia must achieve all its military objectives in Ukraine.

Biden: Approves $45 billion for Ukraine war, bringing it to a total of $110 billion.

Putin: Approves unlimited funding for the special military operation. “The military will get whatever it requests”.

Biden: Approves deployment of Patriot missile defence system to stop Russian missiles. The Patriot is the US second best defence system and has proved highly effective in Saudi Arabia against Iran backed militia.

Putin: From the first week of January, Zircon hypersonic missiles will be deployed to the battlefield. According to Putin “Zircon is unparalleled in the world and unstoppable”.

Me: Finally, we will get to see the battle between Patriot and Zircon. This will be their first official meeting on the battlefield. One will have to outperform the other. So either missiles will stop raining down on Ukraine, or the destruction will increase in multiple folds because the Zircon missile has a much more lethal and devastating payload than Kh-55 currently in use.
For comparison, the Zircon has more than 242 times the on-cruise kinetic energy of a US Tomahawk cruise missile.

Note that the US still has in reserve the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), it’s best air defense system while Russia also has in reserve it’s Avangard Missile, dubbed the ”invincible weapon”.
Both have never been tested in a real battlefield scenario.

Why this is all very important to military pundits is that if there is a Third World War, it will not be about ground invasions, paratrooper landings, tank wars, etc. Third World War will be all about flying projectiles. It will be projectiles making intercontinental trips to and from belligerent countries at speeds many times faster than sound so therefore military superiority will be determined by the effectiveness of air defences and / or the unstoppability of incoming missiles.