at one point he implies the west has hypersonic missiles, which I don't think is true
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Yeah it's extremely not true, but I think some people have a lower bar for the "hyper" moniker for supersonic speeds. The most recent news on the US hypersonic missile program front was shifting the project to some Australian defense company because nobody in the US could get sustained hypersonic flight in testing.
Meanwhile Russia is doing strikes with a functional hypersonic missile program 
Meanwhile Russia is doing strikes with a functional hypersonic missile program
I've never heard of the Russians deploying hypersonic weapons in US media. Is there a source for this, or are we just assuming based on their ability to penetrate western anti-missile shields?
Also, Jesus Christ. Imagine investing the last 30 years in anti-missile technology and having it all go straight into the trash bin with a marginal improvement in flight times.
Yeah, the first time they used them was March last year. There's some hilarious cope in western media about a patriot intercepting one but it happened at like twenty meters above the patriot launcher, and the launcher was destroyed.
Strange. You'd think the US would be pretty good at dealing with defeat, given how often they've had their ass handed to them after 1945.
Ah, but it's only the working class that loses! 
In the crude words of one Moscow official, “a tenant-farmer on Uncle Sam’s global plantation.”
well that's one way to put it