[sparkscoffee] Re: Putin and war
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- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 15:03:29 -0400
RR
Obviously you think Martin Armstrong is a genius? I don't. There are loads
of self proclaimed
think tanks with all kinds of idiot analysis.
Comrade B
In a message dated 9/10/2014 10:47:21 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
ristad@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Posted on _September 10, 2014_
(http://armstrongeconomics.com/2014/09/10/putin-war-return-of-mercenaries-the-masquerade/)
by _Martin Armstrong_
(http://armstrongeconomics.com/author/armstrongeconomics/)
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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