“The consequences will be catastrophic for the United States”
Russian geopolitical analyst Konstantin Sivkov has
called for Moscow to launch a nuclear attack on Yellowstone National
Park and the San Andreas fault line, noting that the devastating
consequences would ‘disappear’ the United States as a country.
Sivkov made the comments in a piece for Russian trade newspaper VPK News, which were translated by the Sydney Morning Herald.
Arguing that NATO aggression against Russia required the
“complete destruction of the enemy,” Sivkov went on to depict a
chilling scenario.
Bear shows claws: A Russian geopolitics
analyst says Yellowstone National Park would be a good target for
nuclear attack. Photo: AP/National Park Service
Supervolcano. Yellowstone volcano eruption,
Russian target number 2: San Andreas fault - 1300 kilometers between the
Pacific and North American plates. here pictured on the Carrizo Plain in California.
Conspiracy theory: The president of the Academy
of Geopolitical Problems based in Moscow,
Konstantin Sivkov.
Russian target number 2: San Andreas fault - 1300 kilometers between the
Pacific and North American plates. here pictured on the Carrizo Plain in California.
Conspiracy theory: The president of the Academy
of Geopolitical Problems based in Moscow,
Konstantin Sivkov.
“Geologists believe that the Yellowstone supervolcano
could explode at any moment. There are signs of growing activity there.
Therefore it suffices to push the relatively small, for example the
impact of the munition megaton class to initiate an eruption. The
consequences will be catastrophic for the United States – a country just
disappears,” he said.
A Yellowstone supervolcano eruption would kill millions
of people in the initial blast and bury much of the United States in
volcanic ash. According to some experts,
it could cause the end of the world.
The last time a supervolcano
exploded in Siberia, 85 per cent of all land species and 95 per cent of
all ocean dwellers were completely wiped out.
In 2013 it was revealed that the magma below Yellowstone was two and a half times larger than
previously thought, giving the park’s supervolcano the potential to
cause an eruption 2,000 times more powerful than Mount St. Helens. Some
experts say the caldera is overdue to erupt.
Sivkov also said that while Russia’s geography protected
it from the threat posed by tsunamis, one could be triggered in the
United States with an attack on the San Andreas fault.
“Another vulnerable area of the United States from the
geophysical point of view, is the San Andreas fault – 1300 kilometers
between the Pacific and North American plates … a detonation of a
nuclear weapon there can trigger catastrophic events like a coast-scale
tsunami which can completely destroy the infrastructure of the United
States,” he wrote.
Sections of the San Andreas fault are overdue for major
earthquake activity. “Researchers found that three sections of the San
Andreas Fault system in Northern California — Hayward, Rodgers Creek and
Green Valley — are either near or past their average recurrence
interval and have accumulated sufficient strain to trigger earthquakes
of magnitude 6.8 or greater,” reports CBS News.
Fearing that the United States plans to “destroy
Russia,” Sivkov says that Moscow is in a much worse position than it was
50 years ago because it has far fewer allies and cannot compete against
the military might of NATO and its allies.
While it would be unthinkable for anyone inside the
Kremlin to take Sivkov’s comments seriously, his rhetoric illustrates
how fraught tensions are between Moscow and Washington.
Last month, General Sir Adrian Bradshaw, NATO’s deputy supreme allied commander in Europe, warned that the threat of a conflict with Russia, “represents an existential threat to our whole being”.
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