[sparkscoffee] Re: Putin and war
- From: "schalestock@xxxxxxxx" <schalestock@xxxxxxxx>
- To: sparkscoffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 15:11:27 GMT
While Obama has drawn our military down to pre WW2 levels. God help us. The
utter arrogance of this man and the fantasy world he lives in could be the end
of us. All you need is ONE nuclear detonaton in anger and the consequences
would be catasthropic. JS
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From: Ron Ristad <ristad@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [sparkscoffee] Putin and war
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 08:46:51 -0600 (GMT-06:00)
Posted on September 10, 2014 by Martin Armstrong
Many people have written asking about Putin. The pundits are claiming the
Russian Army is weak and could not wage war. Russia is actually looking at
expanding its military policy re-targeting Europe and the USA as enemies, and
rewriting protocols for justification of a defensive first strike with nuclear
weapons. The greatest mistake that the West has made so far is to judge Russia
through their own eyes based upon themselves with extreme arrogance and
prejudice. Just because you would not want war does not mean your opponent has
the same view. Additionally, the arrogance of the politicians can force war by
their unyielding posture and inability to realize that they have left their
opponent with no other option.
The arrogance that Russia is weak and could not afford war is a huge mistake
because it is the West who cannot afford war in the middle of an economic
implosion where we have a Sovereign Debt Crisis brewing on an unprecedented
scale. War also gas been an escape valve for fiscal mismanagement and in this
respect, war become desirable as a decoy to hide the inability of politicians
to cope with managing the state.
The Russian military forces are composed of 150,000 officers and 766,000
soldiers on active duty. There are about 2,485,000 reservists. The Russian
Ground Forces have 15,500 tanks, 27,607 armored fighting vehicles (AFV), 5,990
self-propelled guns (SPG), 4,625 towed artillery guns and 3,781 multiple rocket
launcher artillery systems (MLRS), according to reports of the Military portal
Global Fire Power. For the Air Force, Russia has about 3,082 airplanes, jets
and helicopters. Russia has only about 114 combat helicopters compared to the
USA’s 914 attack helicopters – not counting those bought by local
civil police as in Florida.
The Russian Navy has 352 ships and boats. However, Russia has only one aircraft
carrier – the Admiral Kuznetsov class. This was in the service in 1991.
Moscow would like to supplement his holding by two helicopter carrier Mistral
class from France.
Moreover, Russia has over 4,600 nuclear warheads ready for use in their
collections. Additionally, Russia has 7,300 nuclear warheads in reserve.
Furthermore, Russia has about 330 intercontinental ballistic missiles that
could be targeted against the USA domestically. In addition, ten nuclear
submarines are equipped with 160 missiles and there are another 576 nuclear
warheads.
In the next few years, the rocket classes Bulava (SS-N-30) RS-24 Jars (NATO
code SS-24) and Iskander-M (SS-26 Stone) are to be built. Russian technology in
rocket manufacture is not to be under-estimated. Just in the past decades since
the Cold War began, Russia has 117 different missile technologies that have
been used. These systems are partly to extensions of older technologies. The
missile defense system A-135 (NATO code ABM-3) is in Moscow and is ready for
use. It protects the capital and the surrounding area from possible attacks.
Unlike Iraq or Syria, the USA cannot simply invade with impunity. This is not a
war that could be won in such a manner and the capability of nuclear
attacks/defense warn that those levels of warfare are off the table.
http://armstrongeconomics.com/2014/09/10/putin-war-return-of-mercenaries-the-masquerade/
-RR
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