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6 Hypersonic Missiles Downed Over Ukraine
Russia’s ‘deepening’ air assaults are helping Ukraine’s air defenses
The word for “rooster” in Russian is “petukh.” It is a very offensive word for Russian men. Vladimir Putin is a petukh.
If you are going to use this word in Russia, you should be ready to fight. Most men, at least most over, say, 35 years of age, will react violently to it. For younger men, it seems to have lost some of its power to offend. Rural men and lesser-educated Russians still see red when they hear it.
By calling Putin a rooster here, though, I am not using it as the anti-gay epithet that launches Russian men into fisticuffs in seconds (“Slish’ ti?! Petukh, blyad’!”).
Putin’s “rooster-ness” comes down to the way he was out in front of the world for months strutting his stuff and cock-a-doodle-dooing about the Christ-himself-crafted “Khinzhal” hypersonic missile.
Ukraine said on Tuesday it had shot down six Russian hypersonic Kinzhal missiles in a single night, thwarting a superweapon Moscow had previously touted as all but unstoppable.
It was the first time Ukraine had claimed to have struck an entire volley of multiple hypersonic missiles, and if confirmed would be a dramatic demonstration of the effectiveness of newly…
