Russia To US: Let’s Coordinate Your Punitive Airstrikes On Assad

Hotair ^ | 04/12/2018 | Ed Morrissey

[billakay]

The leaders of Russia are NEVER EVER going to take on the US head on....................for a plethora of reasons not just that they would get annihilated.

Did you ever consider that Russians just have a distaste for war in general? I find this to be true across their culture. They certainly don't have a problem maintaining a strong defensive posture, but don't really like to use it, especially without a good reason.

Case in point: Tupolev Tu-95 "Bear"...long range bomber entered service in 1956. Constantly used in western media as a symbol of Russian projected strength. Care to hazard a guess when the first actual operational use in combat was? I'll tell you: November 17th, 2015...almost 60 YEARS after its introduction.

[GOPJ]

Glad we’re taking our time looking at it... We’ll need Russia’s help with the upcoming war with Iran. We must go long on some of this stuff.

[Cen-Tejas]

Yes they did and this is why I tried to make the point that their behavior SINCE world war II has been timid and/or non existent or very, very cautious. Afghanistan being one example of them just giving up and going home.

I think it is important to recognize that Russia is not a country with a strong military background since WWII. We need to be concerned and wary with them but not overly intimidated by them.

[Cen-Tejas]

LOL, I stated in my post “since World War II”.

I don’t think Putin and his buddies can ever earn my respect.

[Cen-Tejas]

You make my point better than I did. Ergo, we should be wary and cautious with them but not overly intimidated because their history in WAR since WWII has been exactly what you say.

A friend of mine, who just died, and I’m going to his funeral tomorrow, worked in the old Soviet Union for over 20 years. His firm had some contracts to install the skeleton, coast to coast fiber optic trunk lines. His office was literally across the hall from the KGB. Anyway, he laughed and said that basically there is very little in Russian Weaponry that even begins to meet the qualitative level of the US no matter how hard they try.