Rumors of War - King of the North

My Way News - Russia to add 40 new intercontinental missiles this year
My Way News reports: "Russia's military will add over 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles this year alone that are capable of piercing any missile defenses, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday in a blunt reminder of the nation's nuclear might amid tensions with the West over Ukraine. [...] The three Baltic members of the alliance, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, have asked NATO to permanently deploy ground troops to their nations as a deterrent against an increasingly assertive Russia. And Polish Defense Minister Tomasz Siemoniak says he and U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter have held talks about placing U.S. heavy army equipment in Poland."

Comment: For many years people have expressed a hope that the world was slowing stepping back from the brink of nuclear war by gradually reducing the number of nuclear weapons. The U.S. and Russia had pledged to do that in a series of treaties that had been, for the most part, successful...until now.  The media will not give this the wall-to-wall coverage that it deserves (no celebrities are involved), but this is a major milestone in history: a major nuclear power is adding a significant number of nuclear missiles to an already well-developed arsenal. These are not short-range missiles, they are the big ones, the ICBMs, that can hit any city in Europe or North America. This is a major development, one that makes the world a much more dangerous place.