“Double Counteraction”: Russia and China Say They Would “Combine” if Faced with U.S. Threat

When asked about a potential deployment of U.S. missiles in Japan, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated, “I would like to remind you that Moscow and Beijing will respond to ‘double containment’ by the United States with ‘double counteraction”

At her weekly briefing, Zakharova told reporters, “It is clear that both Russia and China will react to the emergence of additional and very significant missile threats, and their reaction will be far from being political, which has also been repeatedly confirmed by the two countries”

Speaking to Reuters, Zakharova said, “Our relations are not directed against third countries… and double counteraction does not contradict this. This is a defensive position, this is not an initiative to target other countries”

In 2022, Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin signed a partnership agreement with “no limits,” less than three weeks before Putin invaded Ukraine with his troops. 

The nations of China and Russia have not announced a formal military coalition, despite the fact that Putin last week depicted them as “allies in every sense of the word”.

Meanwhile, a Putin ally reportedly has proposed a plan to construct reproductions of Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, and the White House in the Arctic, just to explode them with nuclear weapons.

Mikhailov, head of the Bureau of Political-Military Analysis, shared the plan on Russian state television, detailing his vision to construct these plywood imitations on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago — a location historically utilized by the Soviet Union for nuclear tests.

During the transmission, Mikhailov ranted about the West’s intentions, expressing, “The Anglo-Saxons want a big continental war — they really do.”

He proposed that the models be hit with more than 150 kilotons of TNT equivalent,” to show the potential obliteration that could be caused for the real cities with just a solitary warhead from the Bulava missile.

“Buckingham Palace and Big Ben will go up in blue flames and fly so beautifully that the world will be horrified.”

The 40-foot intercontinental long-range missile has an expected range of 5,160 miles and can support six to ten separately directed nuclear warheads which are able to strike various targets.

The test was the most powerful nuclear blast ever recorded, which sent shockwaves all over the planet and delivered a mushroom cloud that soared in excess of 37 miles into the atmosphere.

Mikhailov’s proposition has been broadly condemned as careless and provocative, yet it highlights the increased pressures between Russia and the West in the midst of the current conflict in Ukraine.