To: adorno
It wasn't a crucial issue for Russia in the '80s; now it is. It was Carter's inflation of oil prices that paid for the USSR's 600-ship navy and it was Reagan's deregulation of oil that brought those prices down and killed the Soviet Union.
85 posted on
08/04/2025 1:43:37 PM PDT by
Carry_Okie
(The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
To: Carry_Okie
Russia used to have quite a Navy.
467,000 personnel (1984)
1,057 ships (1990)
1,172 aircraft (1990)
5 aircraft carriers (1990)
2 helicopter carriers (1990)
3 battlecruisers
30 cruisers
45 destroyers
113 frigates
124 corvettes
63 ballistic missile submarines
72 cruise missile submarine
68 nuclear attack submarine
63 conventional attack submarine
9 auxiliary submarines
35 amphibious warfare ships
425 patrol boats
1 Lun-class ekranoplan
92 posted on
08/04/2025 2:03:34 PM PDT by
ansel12
((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
To: Carry_Okie
It was Carter's inflation of oil prices that paid for the USSR's 600-ship navy and it was Reagan's deregulation of oil that brought those prices down and killed the Soviet Union.
Whatever happened in the 80s with oil prices and the USSR's use of it, was not critically important then for their survival; now oil sales are critical to Russia's survival.
103 posted on
08/04/2025 2:51:16 PM PDT by
adorno
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