ISW Analyzes Manipulative Speech That Putin Delivered At Naval Parade

The Russian dictator bursts out with threats.

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin continues to use threats of nuclear weapons as a means to push the West to restrain itself in defense matters, while manipulatively speculating on the topic of deploying missile systems.

This is what analysts at the Institute for the Study of War write in a new report analyzing Putin's speech at a naval parade in St. Petersburg on July 28.

Putin said that if the United States deploys long-range missile systems in Germany in 2026, the flight time to Russian industrial and defense facilities will be about 10 minutes. The Russian dictator also commented on the deployment of medium-range missile systems Typhon (MRC) by the Americans in Denmark and the Philippines for joint exercises. Putin threatened that if the US goes ahead with its plans to deploy missile systems in these countries, Russia would no longer consider itself bound by the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty and would take “mirror measures” and deploy unspecified Russian intermediate-range and shorter-range systems, the development of which is now allegedly in the final stages.

In June 2024, the US and Germany announced that starting in 2026, the US would begin “episodic deployments” of long-range systems, including SM-6 and Tomahawk missiles, to strengthen NATO, ISW recalls. In April 2024, the US Pacific Army said it had deployed the MRC missile system, which can fire SM-6 and Tomahawk missiles, to the Philippines as part of an exercise. In May 2024, the US Navy announced it had conducted missile training with the Danish military on the island of Bornholm, Denmark. The current location of the MRC systems is unknown, but the US has not announced that it will deploy the missile systems in Denmark and the Philippines for any purpose other than these exercises, ISW analysts say.

The Institute's experts expose the dictator's manipulations. After all, back in March 2019, Putin officially suspended Russia's participation in the INF Treaty, which concerns restrictions on ground-based ballistic and cruise missiles with a range of 500 to 5,500 kilometers. At the same time, Russia has already deployed Iskander-M ballistic missiles on a permanent basis, which can carry nuclear weapons and have a range of up to 500 kilometers in the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation since 2018. Therefore, Putin is now trying to falsely present Russia's deployment of missiles previously banned by the INF Treaty as an alleged turning point in US actions. Such statements are likely part of his repeated attempts to use nuclear saber-rattling tactics to push the West into self-restraint, ISW concludes.

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