Posted on 11/15/2019 2:33:23 PM PST by daniel1212
No way. For Putin to risk surviving our retaliation, he’d need to know our moves for certain, as if he had access to our secrets like through an official’s server kept on a private network for years and........ oh my
How much the US spends versus China and Russia is actually misleading since the procurement costs are much different. How much it would cost China to produce a F-35 (if they could) is much less than here. And while the US still spends more, it is far more spread across the globe.
It assumes Putin goes insane and everyone else around him, as well as those firing the missiles, to either also be insane or just going along with it.
Not saying its impossible. It is practically impossible.
The only other halfway plausible scenario is Putin or their systems are misled/tricked into believing they need to fire theirnweapons.
As per the anti-Christ Communist program.
That doesn’t work as a hypothesis. You can’t live under ground forever. If you have the ability, study the half lives of fission contamination and figure out how to get out of your hole. Then quit watching the SciFi channel.
“That is because Putin doesn’t pay $37 per screw and $640 per toilet seat. lol”
And they also pay their blue collar and white collar defense workers about 30% of what we pay, and probably the same for their (conscripted) troops.
That’s why it’s do damn DANGEROUS to base our national defense on Left Wing talking points.
What a silly article.
“Keep the U.S. from launching an equally crippling counterattack, immediately or in the future.”
Only one of our “Boomer subs” with missiles has the capability to take out Russia as a functional society as they also have the capability to our society. We have many of these subs.
These subs have one mission that is to hide in the deep of the Atlantic, and Pacific and Arctic unseen and undetected. If the sad day happens they are used they will launch hell on the enemy. The enemy will be destroyed with absolute certainty as we in all probability have already been destroyed.
The Russians are not insane thus this will not happen. The Mullahs of Iran are not insane but guided by an insane religion of death and might do this in the future.
Well, the premise was that Putin was not rational, and which thus enabled the scenario to be postulated as tactically plausible, vs. whether it was plausible to occur.
And exploring such scenarios is useful if MAD/nuclear war is to be avoided under the premise that it is suicidal for both adversities. Billions are spend to make sure nuclear war is.
At least 35% of the serfs will be crowding the shores & streets welcoming their comrades with open arms...
The key part of their strategy to be able to hold on to the U.S. is for the U.S. communists get elected (in 2020, 2022, or 2024) with enough control to eliminate troublemakers and confiscate all guns and ammo...
The communist's history of small surrogate wars/revolutions/coups followed by total permanent communist control is well documented...
No way. For Putin to risk surviving our retaliation, he’d need to know our moves for certain, as if he had access to our secrets like through an official’s server kept on a private network for years and........ oh my
“Deep Underground Military Bases. Underground cities connected by mag lev trains. Boring machines that are 100 ft wide. 8 miles of tunnel a day per machine. For the past 70 years our government has built an underground empire impervious to nuclear war.”
Good one!
Russia limits abortion to 12 weeks. Much better than here.
Why bother? Just ask the NYT or WAPO.... Of course, the problem then separating truth from fiction.
That is the long range strategy.
It won’t be Russia in 2025. It’ll be Iran and sooner than that.
The article factored in having just eight Ohio class nuclear-powered submarines by 2020, taken out by nuclear charges.
These subs have one mission that is to hide in the deep of the Atlantic, and Pacific and Arctic unseen and undetected.
Which presumes they are undetected.
But as said, exploring such scenarios is useful if MAD/nuclear war is to be avoided under the premise that it is suicidal for both adversaries. Both sides must see it as rationally unwinnable.
“That is because Putin doesn’t pay $37 per screw and $640 per toilet seat.”
That was simply an accounting trick to hide the expenditures for black budget programs like the B-2 bomber, the F-117, the Aurora, the Navy’s secret (redacted) class nuclear attack submarine, and etc.
“Russia limits abortion to 12 weeks. Much better than here.”
Russian abortions take 12 weeks to conclude? Wow.
And I think you are right on the money with that. :)
But if someone claimed we spend much more than Russia they would be absolutely right.
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