Military expert: Oreshnik a message to Europe, not USA

“It was to make them understand that today, they are helpless against weapons like that. […] If we have an intermediate range missile like the Oreshnik now, perhaps we also have one with a shorter range, below 1,000 kilometres. Who can say we don’t? If you deploy that missile, say, around Brest, all European capitals would be in its range. I’m not trying to scare anyone, I’m saying Russia has those capabilities,” he said.
“People who follow Trump, like his future special envoy for Ukraine, his future Secretary of State, what do they say? They say, ‘peace through strength’. The world now is America-centric. There was a Russian Defence Ministry Collegium in Moscow where Vladimir Putin spoke. Taking the stage after him, Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov said something very important: the chance of an armed conflict with NATO will be at its highest in the next 10 years.