The Russian economy is facing hard times but no one expects Russia to back down even if Putin is gone tomorrow.
Won’t happen.
Putin plays full-contact hockey whiel riding bears, while Obola plays T-ball while riding Reggie.
While Russia is indeed a threat needed to be dealt with. The author vastly overstates Russian military capabilities.
This eight-year mistake is part of the reason why the world is in the position it is.
When the United States projects a position of weakness on the world stage, aggressive political actors feel emboldened and step up to fill the power vacuum. We should’ve continued to build missile defense sites in eastern Europe despite the protestations of Russia, but we instead capitulated and gave Russia the Crimea and an increasing foothold in the sociocultural sphere of influence in eastern Europe.
Meanwhile, we’re projecting hostility toward the Israelis who are being battered by Islamists, and we’re losing key strategic political allies in much of the middle East.
This president is more than an abject failure, he’s an enemy of the state who no one will oppose. Obama is the reincarnation of Caesar Augustus sans the military.
Linerals thought the war on poverty was noble and without a draft (well,except for drafting the tax payers)... now they are like disarmed chihuahuas trying to fight wolves.
What's this ? Another NWO/Bilderbergs/UFO/911 was inside job/pray to Putin “news website” ?
We probably need a global war to match our coming civil war.
Preezy is egging on an internal race war like nothing I have ever seen nor conceived of.
Go 'way, we've seen the best and he hasn' t been around for years -- I mean Victor Posner. He and his subtler Churkin used to prowl the airwaves on ABC news. Churkin is still around somewhere.
Does this bozo write for Pravda? “They have all the cards...” Hardly. They have an economy on the edge of disaster with the decline in oil prices. The decline of our military has more to do with a lack of will to fund any defense than it does with our selection of wars to fight. Russia can and will try to make trouble, but they cannot compete with us if we wake up and get our defense priorities straight. Let’s hope we do so in ‘16.
“Russia’s nuclear arsenal has recently surpassed America’s, and their ability to deploy these weapons has America’s top brass rather worried. Russia is currently deploying bombers, submarines, and ICBM’s that could be just as advanced and stealthy as our own, if not more so.”
I thought both sides were numerically equal, tied to the latest treaty? Russia’s weapons are newer though.
Where did you find this Blame America First website?
Shootin’ blanks.
Russia a ‘superpower’?
Please. They’re being pummelled by the Saudi’s.
Russia has been threatening NATO partner states for quite a few years now. In Ukraine, Russia has committed ground troops.
The underlying point concerning proxy wars might be legitimate, but the idea that the U.S. is the provocateur is off the mark.
How would supplying weapons to Ukraine be a direct, overt attack on Russian troops, if as Putin states there are no Russian troops in Ukraine?
There are legitimate concerns about supplying weapons to Ukraine to discuss, but that it makes the U.S. the provocateur isn't one of them. Russia is in no condition to fight a land war in Europe. No we could not win such a war quickly or without significant losses in life and treasure, but Russia would be doomed to lose from the beginning. They would likely end it by kicking off a tactical nuke exchange to broker a peace agreement, but there is no way that Russian troops would push through Poland.
Oh look. European Union apologists pointing everywhere but themselves to try to find blame for the mess they are primarily responsible for.
Not to worry.
We have Dorkbama, the West Wing Clown Show of Felon/Cretins, and our bottom of the IQ barrel marshmallow major State Department, led by Lurch (D student) who just happened to serve in ‘Nam.
Nothing can go wrong.
Nothing can go wrong.
Go wrong, go wrong......
There are other factual errors: a) we all knew we were supporting the Afghans with Stingers in the '80s; b) Russian pilots ('volunteers') fought directly against American pilots in both Korea and Vietnam-- there was no escalation to nuclear war.
The Bear isn't ten feet tall, although its ability to con many in the West that it is seems to be a perennial feature of world politics, reaching back to France's gross overestimation of the Russian army's abilities before WWI, even though the Russians had just been shellacked by Japan in 1905.