Andrei Martyanov’s new book on imperial decline features a devastating indictment of US political mediocrity. Martyanov also feels compelled to update what he’s been excelling at for years: the fact that the arrival of hypersonic missiles “has changed warfare forever”. The Khinzal, deployed way back in 2017, has a range of 2,000 km and “is not interceptable by existing US anti-missile systems”. The 3M22 Zircon “changes the calculus of both naval and ground warfare completely”. The US lag behind Russia in air-defense systems is “massive, and both quantitative and qualitative”. https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/05/no_author/the-disintegrated-states-of-america
