Posted on 02/16/2015 6:47:36 AM PST by WhiskeyX
Russia's top general said Friday that a strong nuclear arsenal will ensure military superiority over the West as Moscow forges ahead with a multi-billion dollar plan to modernize its forces by 2020.
Russia, facing a likely recession because of a fall in oil prices and sanctions over Ukraine, must deal with new forms of Western aggression, including economic confrontation, said General Valery Gerasimov.
But despite the deep economic woes, he said the Russian military would receive more than 50 new intercontinental nuclear missiles this year.
"Support for our strategic nuclear forces to ensure their high military capability combined with ... growth of the military potential of the general forces will assure that [the U.S. and NATO] do not gain military superiority over our country," said Gerasimov.
Tensions between Russia and the West have risen over the conflict in eastern Ukraine, where the U.S. and Europe say Moscow is fueling an insurgency by sending in troops and weapons. Moscow denies this.
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A Rooskie strawman...
Where’d that come from ?
Ronald Reagan won the Cold War without firing a shot. The healthy U.S. economy--the greatest in history--was just too enormous for the feeble, Marxist Soviet economy to compete with it. This in itself PROVED the benevolence of free market capitalism and the ultimate evil of Marxism.
After Reagan, Americans succumbed to decadence.
They refused to learn the lesson of the ultimate benevolence of free market capitalism.
Their self-indulgence let their entire society sink into the quagmire of decay.
Their economy began failing.
Their military declined along with it.
If the economy and the military of Russia, or China, or some other nation surpass those of the United States, it will come as no surprise to any honest person, and the dishonor will be that of the American people who allowed it to happen.
It is they whom future generations will rightly damn for their folly.
Russians have a history of being insecure with their neighbors. Clearly he is posturing now to try and intimidate those same neighbors and the US. Its sort like the old days where they would build a couple of modern planes and fly them in circles over Red Square during parades to show off their new “fleet.”
This Russian general just might be right. If Obama never launches ICBMs at them, and Russia does, at us, then that automatically makes their superior, because ours is effectively nullified.
The Rooskie has always been a suspicious, envious critter.
The general’s announcement helps the average guy understand why there’s little to eat from the local grocer.
When a Russian General speaks , I always think about steve martin’s wild and crazy guy
Another aspect to this Russian demand for neutralization of neighboring states is how Russia always annexes the neighboring neutralized state and then demands the neutralization of the next state on its new border. They have done so all along Russia’s borders from Finland and Poland to the various ‘stans now being gamed in Central Asia.
>After Reagan, Americans succumbed to decadence.<
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I still remember Bush #1 exclaim, right after his inauguration, that he wanted to establish a “kinder and gentler” society. I cringed when I heard that. It was sooooo PC.
Besides, it was a slap in the face of his predecessor.
“Smart Power”
They’re paranoid world view causes them to attack their peaceful neighbors and to blame other nations for their own aggression. Russia is especially not now under any threat of attack by NATO, the USA, or any other country. Yet its leaders get away with such sophistries because of the Russians prefer their own brand of chauvinism and malice. They’re not a sophisticated people. Putin is exactly what they deserve. As long as they have cheap vodka, they won’t care about dictatorship, the rule of law, separation of powers, etc. We even have very stupid Americans who like Putin and his flabby chest.
After how much wadka?
We may decide to laser their arsenal if the shoe fits.
I think Merkel understands the boast, but not the misplaced Kenyan American in the White House.
Reagan fired quite a few shots, some real, some symbolic, some threatened, some not even literally his, in Africa, in Afghanistan, in Latin America, in invading Grenada, in Britain’s surprise defense of the Falklands, in having 550 thousand troops in Europe, in moving the short range missiles to Europe.
Some literally involved shots, and most didn’t, but it was clearly extremely aggressive, and displayed a willingness to fight.
It was the military toughness and the military build up that broke the back of Russia, they lost the window for attack in 1985 and knew that the window had been closed for the foreseeable future, and that led to internal instability, mixed with the fact that they didn’t have the economic power to counter Reagan’s global aggression and America’s new global forcefulness.
Reagan’s strength, went from appearing to look like a path to WWIII, to revealing the cracks in the USSR, and eventually it crumbled from attacks on multiple fronts, internal, economic, military, sociological, it just became too much to hold the empire together.
The bottom line is this: America won the Cold Ward because of (1) Ronald Reagan and (2) U.S. economic power.
That isn’t the bottom line, the bottom line is that the wars we fought, the generations of American men sacrificing, and the military build up, and the Reagan challenges to Russians on the world’s battlefields brought them down.
When you remove the military and the warfare, then Russia would have won the Cold War, and at the very least, survived Reagan.
Us having a good economy is not what defeated Russia, or else it would have happened at times before, or later when Clinton was president.
Reagan, “fought” the Cold war, it did not just end because we had good a GDP.
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