[sparkscoffee] Re: Putin and war

  • From: "" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "Sblumen123@xxxxxxx" for DMARC)
  • To: sparkscoffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 14:08:54 -0400

JS
Yee gads remember sequester where congress agreed to reduce all  government 
spending including on
the military? Of course there were plenty asking for exceptions but non the 
 less the military had to take their lumps like many others. Wake up man, 
show me  a front page you are talking about?
 
Incidentally how would any soldier know if the dead enemy before him had  
committed any horrible crime and in your tour of duty did you come across any 
 dead enemy soldiers and did you feel like pissing on him or
did any of your comrades do that? In fact what does the army do with a dead 
 enemy, bury him and put up an ID marker? Trade such info with the  enemy? 
Curious.
 
Stanley 
 
 
In a message dated 9/11/2014 6:45:33 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
schalestock@xxxxxxxx writes:

Stanley,
 
What planet are you living on ?  The cuts to the military have been  on the 
front pages for months.  And you wonder why no one can have an  intelligent 
discourse with you.
 
JS


---------- Original Message ----------
From: ""  <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender 
"Sblumen123@xxxxxxx" for  DMARC)
To: sparkscoffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [sparkscoffee] Re: Putin  and war
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 15:13:51 -0400

JS
In which fantasy world did you get all this knowledge of Obama bringing  
our military down to pre WW2
levels? I do know because of the growing monster debit, with the  
republicans leading the charge, government spending was reduced to the bone  
including the military. Have you forgotten so soon?
 
Comrade B   
 
 
In a message dated 9/10/2014 11:13:38 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
schalestock@xxxxxxxx writes:

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


---------- Original Message ----------
From: Ron Ristad  <ristad@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject:  [sparkscoffee] Putin and war
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 08:46:51 -0600  (GMT-06:00)


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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