[Scan-DC] Why Fort Ritchie? Russian state TV shows strike targets in Maryland

[Alan Henney]

Why Fort Ritchie? Russian state TV shows strike targets in Maryland

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#Russia's state TV:
Host Dmitry Kiselyov boasts that Tsirkon hypersonic cruise missile "won't
allow Americans to sit it out across the ocean," names potential targets:
▪️Pentagon
▪️Camp David
▪️Fort Ritchie (Maryland)
▪️McClellan (California)
▪️Jim Creek (Washington State)


Why Fort Ritchie? Russian state TV shows strike targets in Maryland

Maryland doesn’t stand much of a chance should the United States and Russia
come to nuclear blows.

It’s not only next to Washington, but also home to Fort Meade and the
National Security Agency, Aberdeen Proving Ground and the Camp David
presidential retreat.

Camp David, nestled in the Catoctin Mountains near Thurmont, was among five
targets listed on Russian state television for that nation’s hypersonic
missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead within five minutes.

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The bellicose threat by Dmitry Kiselyov, host of Russia’s main weekly TV
news show “Vesti Nedeli,” came after Russian President Vladimir Putin
warned the U.S. not to deploy new missiles to Europe.

Other targets included the Pentagon, the Jim Creek Naval Radio Station in
Washington State, McClellan Air Force Base outside Sacramento, Calif., and
Fort Ritchie, a few miles northwest of Camp David.

Camp David, the Pentagon and Jim Creek, a powerful radio station that
broadcasts to ships and submarines around the world, make sense, but those
last two are peculiar. Both McClellan and Fort Ritchie were closed in the
1990s.

Since 1997, state and local officials have struggled to find new uses for
Fort Ritchie, which sprawls across 600 acres in Washington County with old
stone buildings, spruce trees and two lakes.

Recently, a South Korean developer backed out of plans to buy most of the
base for $6 million, according to the Herald-Mail in Hagerstown.

Perhaps, the developer heard about Russia’s targeting.

While Fort Ritchie may be fallow ground, it is just a handful of miles from
Raven Rock Mountain Complex, a nuclear bunker across the border in southern
Pennsylvania considered by some an “underground Pentagon.” Some believe
that Raven Rock was the “secure undisclosed location” used by Vice
President Dick Cheney in the aftermath on the 9/11 attacks.

So Russia, what do you have against Fort Ritchie?

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