Last I checked, neither Israel nor the USA have been saying or doing anything threatening towards Russia. Elucidate, please.

Oh - and if you can simply stick to verifiable facts, and avoid any conspiracy theory nonsense, that would be appreciated.

Then there’s the other kind of smoke – the kind some people like to blow up other people’s nether regions … It gets noisy around here sometimes, doesn’t it? Now – what was the topic at hand? Oh yes – the rocket launch …

What surprises me is (1) where it was apparently launched from and (2) where it was seen. The nearest missile test range is at Kapustin Yar (a.k.a. Znamensk) and the apparent target was the Sary-Shagan range in Kazakhstan. There are a lot of oddities to this, if it is in fact such a test.

1. The supposed range of the test for an ICBM is a paltry 2100 kilometers
2. The purported test flight is supposed to be west to east, but is visible more than 2000 kilometers to the southwest.
3. Some witnesses reported that the object began to spin rapidly before disappearing.
4. Experts noticed that the object’s erratic movements closely resembled that of a similar sighting in Norway in 2009. This sighting was later attributed to a failed launch of a Bulava missile from the submarine TK-208: Dmitriy Donskoi.

Israeli early-warning radars reported that the object in question had reached an altitude of up to 300 kilometers, which would explain why it was seen over such a wide area. However, the fact that it was so high above Kapustin Yar, and NOT heading towards Sary Shagan, and spinning rapidly like the failed 2009 Bulava missile launch, would lead me to believe that this test also was a failure – probably of the first stage motor and/or the guidance package.

Please see:
http://www.interfax.com/newsinf.asp?pg=5&id=338379
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/08/mysterious-light-seen-over-middle-east-coincides-with-russian-missile-launch/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8405481.stm