This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

It’s obvious that Russian despot Vladimir Putin will be a major problem for our next Commander-in-Chief.  The contenders have not addressed a chilling fact, however: Putin seems to be preparing for nuclear war, quite possibly against us.

For starters, the Russians have largely put into place a brand new arsenal of thermonuclear weapons deployed on an array of modern missile, submarine and bomber platforms designed to operate against – and defeat – such limited defenses as we have. These forces have increasingly conducted simulated attacks, even as Putin has repeatedly threatened to unleash them.

Perhaps most chilling, millions of Russians recently participated in drills designed to test something we lack: an extensive array of underground bunkers and other civil defenses intended to protect them against nuclear conflict. 

We ignore these and other examples of what might be called “Putin’s reset” at our extreme peril.

This is Frank Gaffney.