Posted on 03/28/2024 8:30:10 AM PDT by MeganC
Russia is a 3rd world joke.
Russia isn’t even Canada with nukes these days.
As to their nukes the majority of them are expired and can’t be reprocessed due to sanctions preventing the rebuilding of the Mayak processing and assembly facility.
By 2027 and definitely by 2035 Russia will no longer be in the nuclear club unless they can get their weapons program started up again.
Boris Akunin
That is a great quote! I will be saving that one! Thank you!
Institute for the Grift of Bill Kristol.
Ignored.
“Ignored.”
Thanks for the bump! Be sure to tell your friends to drop by!
But as the Communists realized, politics can do what military cannot, while Ukraine seems to want to follow the Wests path to Hell.
Ukraine right now just wants to exist.
The post brings a lot of sanity and intellectual clarity to the whole of Russian’s uncalled for invasion of Ukraine.
Neocon scum.
Just curious, is Bill Kristol’s “Institute for the Study of War” considered a legit source on LFR?
Your information seems quite at odds with that given at this link:
https://thebulletin.org/premium/2024-03/russian-nuclear-weapons-2024/
Estimates are that Russia has over 4300 strategic warheads, and something like 2000 more tactical warheads available. Russian nuclear forces have been undergoing modernization, and Russia has working designs for hypersonic glide vehicles among other options.
I guess we’ll see how well their warheads work if they resume testing…I hope not on Ukrainian soil.
Another article on modernization:
https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2024/02/01/russian-leaders-have-high-hopes-for-new-nukes-this-year-again/
To your point, despite a fair amount of searching I couldn’t find an article on current warhead (pit) manufacture in Russia. Do you have a link perchance?
Its not about the bucks, its about the will. Europe has no stomach for war, Russia does. America—even with all the hate Putin-Hitler, the Americans do not want war. Who will fight? Illegal aliens? Metrosexuals? Women? There is no unity in the west to wage any kind of war. Russia has the will (for now) they are not like us—this is true of China as well as other lands. We zoom into WW III we may well be walking into a snake pit of problems—This one wee could lose and our vaunted Economic power could vanish overnight as in 1929-30.
You two should get a room and thrill yourselves to gay videos of Zelensky prancing around and playing the piano.
I’m sure you’ll have a nice time together.
Is there any mention in this repetitive essay about available manpower? Is there any mention about how the West’s GDP is now mostly financial products and services? Do we have the manufacturing capabilities to match the Russians bomb for bomb and drone for drone? And even if we could supply Ukraine with more arms, who is left to use it? Do we also have to send in NATO troops and start WWIII?
Much the same could be said of the current regime here...
“Your information seems quite at odds with that given at this link:”
Pardon me if I’m not terribly aggrieved over any report from a known cell of communist agitators.
“Russia is a 3rd world joke.”
With thousands of nuclear weapons
“Is there any mention in this repetitive essay about available manpower?”
Does there need to be? NATO forces have numerous force multipliers available to them which would negate any seeming advantages the Russians might have in raw, untrained numbers.
The first of which is a far higher standard of training coupled with strong corps of NCOs. Both are wholly absent in the Russian military.
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