Our Vice-President was recently accused by Russian leadership of starting the Cold War again. Think again.
Russia says new Topol RS-12 mobile ICBM can evade U.S. missile defense
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1513904/posts
US TOLD TO LEAVE CENTRAL ASIA [Russia & China demand "deadline."]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1437369/posts
"Modernize" is a polite word for it. Essentially they will be building from scratch. The USSR legacy strategic weapons systems are already past or near the limits of their design life. Just two years ago Putin in an admirals uniform was aboard a submarine to witness a launch as part of an exercise. Two consecutive missiles failed.
Living next door to China I wouldn't disarm either.
5 year plans, wow gives one a teary eye
The Western Mail, April 7th, 1931
COMMUNISTS’ FIVE-YEAR-PLAN.
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HOW IT IS WORKING IN RUSSIA.
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ITS ORIGIN AND PURPOSE “NO MORE COMPROMISE WITH CAPITALISM”
By GARETH JONES.
In a series of five articles the first of which is given below, the writer examines Russia's Five-Year Plan of economic recovery which has now been in operation two and half years. Political and economic motives behind the Plan are described in this article. Further articles will be published daily in these columns this week
http://colley.co.uk/garethjones/soviet_articles/how_it_is_working.htm
I wonder....do their buildings still topple over? I remember years ago when the Soviet Union was a superpower, it was believed to have had all the latest military technology and equipment, but it seemed that every other week, a new highrise apartment building or some other structure would collapse.