Posted on 06/09/2016 4:39:18 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
RUSSIA could steamroll NATO forces in just 60 hours, a leading US defence official has warned amid rising tensions with the west.
The alarming claim comes as Russia has deployed troops westward as part of its ongoing stand-off with NATO. US Deputy assistant secretary of defence for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia Michael Carpenter told a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing that the West and NATO were currently not ideally prepared to deal with a Russian threat.
He said Russia had a massive geographical and time advantage but by 2017 the US would be in a better position to defend its allies.
The warning over increasing Russian aggression comes just four months after non-profit global policy think tank RAND raised “concerns about its larger intentions” and speculated Russian forces could reach those areas in 60 hours.
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... um, The Caliphate..?
Oh, wait. They are already doing that. Never mind.
The Russkies better hurry unless they want to fight ISIS in Berlin and Paris instead of Raqqa.
My guess is that Pooty Poot has other things on his mind other than invading a NATO country.
Wait a minute. Vlad, how about Turkey? Erdogan hates you, and he has ties to ISIS.
5.56mm
Too many people on this earth, it will only get worse.
Something is going to happen
Depends on the objectives.
They should be able to make it to the Rhine and Danube in 60 hours. West and south of that would take longer.
Respectfully, I agree with the opposing views, here. Russians don’t do logistics well. They might be able to overrun a few former Soviet Republics, now in NATO; the so called “Near abroad”, but projecting power, and sustaining an invading force is not their forte, and they know it.
Let them have Europe. Good riddance. They’re all Commies anyway.
What are they doing in Syria?
Why shouldn’t the Poles have a buffer zone? That’s the excuse we keep hearing from the FR Borscht Brigade about Russia all the time.
Learn to speak Russian.
Thanks for your reply. Respectfully, the Syrian engagement, a good forward operation, is not the same thing as a logistic exercise, along the lines of the two Persian Gulf wars, that is what I had in mind, regarding “overrun”.
Glad you gave me the opportunity to clarify my remarks :)
Anybody else remember the annual 96 hour (4 day) ARTEPs based on the Pentagon assumption that if we could fight for 4 days straight we would beat the Soviets? We used to joke that if the Soviets had any brains, they’d hit during hour 97...because were all whacked from lack of sleep.
Out military has been decimated - by budget cuts, Sequestration (that lasts another 7 years - thanks GOP Congress), and Obama's homosexual and feminst assaults.
The "Americans" who voted for our current leadership are traitors. There is no other way to put that.
When this next war happens, we will be in serious danger.
So what? During the Cold War we attempted to stop the spread of tyrannical communism. Now the "West" is intent on spreading its vile, and equally tyrannical progressive ideology. NATO would be fighting for gay marriage and access to women's bathrooms for transsexuals. Yea Freedom!
Putin is no fool. He realizes that such a move would prompt a nuclear response. And this time, we sit it out. Germany gets to KEEP France!
those two crack me up always have
Putin is no fool to understand that that seizing poor country is unprofitable business
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