Russia Set On Selling More Weapons To Remain a Superpower

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[DTAD]

Moscow must develop and sell more sophisticated weapons to remain “a superpower,” Russian defense minister Sergei Ivanov said Dec. 25.

”Our country cannot keep its status as a superpower on the basis of its territory and natural resources alone,” The Ria Novosti agency reported Ivanov as saying.

[DTAD]

another "cold" war in the cards?

[JohnLongIsland]

the classic guns or butter scenario revisited.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Pootie and cronies haven't forgotten their KGB roots.

[Romanov]

Naw,just singing to the home crowd. Russia can't even get its way regionally, so how can they actually believe they are still a superpower?

[Proud_USA_Republican]

It never ended. It would take generations to undue all the communist brainwashing this country has had forced on its people.

[zarf]

another "cold" war in the cards?

Spare me. By any measure, the US sells enough weapons to make the same charge. The Russkies have weapons to sell....they'll sell them. We're the last country who should be slapping them on the wrist.

[M. Espinola]

Russia sells arms to Syria and Iran, Syria and Iran infiltrate jihadist killers into Iraq who in turn murder American troops. What does that make the Russians?

[greasepaint]

the only thing they got

oil-gas money is already spent

[zarf]

What does that make the Russians?

Whores looking for a buck.

Our arms establishment is any different?

[FreedomCalls]

We're the last country who should be slapping them on the wrist.

We should be buying from them. If they had us as a customer, then they would not need to sell to our adversaries, nor would they feel a need to keep stirring up trouble in order to sell to our adversaries. They would then try to placate us so that we would keep buying from them. For instance BTRs are much more suited to the role of patroling Anbar or escorting KBR convoys than "uparmored" HMMVs. Their sloped sides and undercarriage deflect IED blasts better than the flat-sided and flat-bottomed HMMV.

[FreedomCalls]

Russia sells arms to Syria and Iran, Syria and Iran infiltrate jihadist killers into Iraq who in turn murder American troops.

You could say the same thing about our arms supplies going to Egypt and Saudia Arabia. Most of the 9/11 killers were Saudi. Ayman al-Zawahiri is Egyptian.

[M. Espinola]

We are not arming Iran and Syria to trigger WW-III, Putin is.

[Pro-Bush]

Russia is not a superpower.

[M. Espinola]

I agree selling the Wahhabist oil barons weapons is insane. Egypt could go jihadic in a second contingent on who is running the place. Russia on the other hand, is making it possible for Iran to become a nuclear threat.

[padre35]

Russia culture of death is dooming it, when almost 50% of all pregnancies end in abortions, it almost a matter of time until Russia becomes a Majority Islamic.


The fruits of secularism

[Tailgunner Joe]

"Remain" a superpower? Did Ivanov miss the collapse of the EVIL EMPIRE, ...or does he just miss the EVIL EMPIRE? What a deluded impotent bully.