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Read Russia’s Ominous Response to NATO’s Rapid Reaction Force
The PJ Tatler ^ | September 5, 2014 | Bryan Preston

Posted on 09/06/2014 5:53:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet
As of right now, the active US Army consists of 546,047 Active personnel. So yes, 766,000 does outnumber us.

I guess you realize that you just compared the size of just a single NATO nation's"army" troops, against the size of the entire Russian active military of Army, Navy, and Air Forces, and all active.

21 posted on 09/06/2014 7:31:08 PM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: wrench
The best we can hope is to keep the fighting off US soil

You think Russia is capable of invading America?

22 posted on 09/06/2014 7:32:53 PM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: ansel12

Why not, Texas is being invaded even tonight, and Obama does nothing about it.


23 posted on 09/06/2014 7:37:58 PM PDT by wrench
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To: ansel12
"The 766,000 person Russian military is not the WWII Wehrmacht, and are not superior to the United States alone..."

I was responding to your above comment. Shouldn't have I? BTW, except for parts of the Marine Corps (Russia has a version, too) most of those US military people you cited will not be in on the ground fight against the Russians. For instance, USAF enlisted personnel are mostly support people, since only commissioned officers fly and the USAF hasn't had warrant officers in many decades. Plus the Russians will be in their own neighborhood, with short logistical lines, whereas we will be many thousands of miles from our bases.

24 posted on 09/06/2014 7:40:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

First get it straight, the threat isn’t NATO invading Russia, it is Russia trying to conquer NATO, and being the invader.

NATO and America defending itself, as afar the structure of the American military machine, we structure it to kill and destroy, not to defeat Russians in one on one bayonet attacks. Although NATO forces outnumber them by millions anyway.

You sure take a strong pro-russian position, but it is built on air, not military capabilities.

Personally, I side with the U.S. and NATO.


25 posted on 09/06/2014 7:51:29 PM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: ansel12

You guys are nuts. LOL


26 posted on 09/06/2014 7:55:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No, you guys trying to portray Russia as having somehow leaped into the role of being the world’s most powerful nation on earth, undefeatable by all the forces the United States and the Western world can bring against it if it moves against us, is a bizarre and unexplainable fantasy.

It is some sort of insanity that I doesn’t make any sense.


27 posted on 09/06/2014 7:59:39 PM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think we should strengthen our military but not waste it in rata$$ foreign involvements. If any of our troops dies in the Ukraine conflict, then they died for nothing. I don’t care what the specifics of that complicated mess might be. Certain forces, economic and international, seem desperate to push us into another war. I’m not for it and that’s my position.


28 posted on 09/06/2014 8:03:03 PM PDT by Ciexyz
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To: ansel12

~First get it straight, the threat isn’t NATO invading Russia, it is Russia trying to conquer NATO, and being the invader~

With all due respect, you are a case of cognitive dissonance, good old ansel.

It seems like Russia is both a threat and not a threat to you at the same time.

BTW, when did Russia attack a NATO country?


29 posted on 09/06/2014 8:23:53 PM PDT by wetphoenix
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To: wetphoenix

Who said that Russia has invaded a NATO nation?

NATO exists to protect us from the Russian threat, and since Russia is currently invading and conquering again NATo is a topic on these American forums.

As a current Russian soldier, who joined up here to support and reinforce our more Jimmy Carter/Obama like posters, preaching submission to your current invasions, I would say that you are the one twisting reality.Now who said that Russia has invaded NATO?


30 posted on 09/06/2014 8:34:41 PM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: ansel12

Go back to your statement I quoted earlier.
Also NATO was formed to counter a Warsaw pact in Europe which is a history long time ago. There is no Soviet forces across Fulda Gap and they came home unilaterally.
BTW,what did you feel when the Soviets have put their boots in Cuba, if you was around at the time?


31 posted on 09/06/2014 8:42:12 PM PDT by wetphoenix
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To: wetphoenix

NATO was formed to protect the world from Russia, and Russia is still the threat.

As a Russian soldier connected to military intelligence, I know that you have a role to play since signing up here recently, but don’t get overly silly.


32 posted on 09/06/2014 8:46:48 PM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: ansel12

~NATO was formed to protect the world from Russia, and Russia is still the threat.~

A threat fielding just k700 troops?

~As a Russian soldier connected to military intelligence, I know that you have a role to play since signing up here recently, but don’t get overly silly.~

You keep promoting me, ansel. I’ll be a KGB chief in no time with you:)


33 posted on 09/06/2014 9:15:33 PM PDT by wetphoenix
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To: wetphoenix

You told me you were FSB.

And you shouldn’t be worried about our defensive concerns, it is our business, just quit invading nations and you have nothing to worry about.

You really don’t need to be sharing with us how much a teddy bear you are while you are invading Ukraine, it is especially creepy coming from an FSB soldier.


34 posted on 09/06/2014 9:22:35 PM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: ansel12

~You told me you were FSB.~

Really? I must have been missed something.

On the other hand, do you think FSB is your biggest problem? Or that any activity of this service is harmful to US interests?


35 posted on 09/06/2014 9:32:26 PM PDT by wetphoenix
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To: wetphoenix

How could you miss it, when you posted it?


36 posted on 09/06/2014 9:35:33 PM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: ansel12

I was probably joking, ansel. It was probably another situation when you have signed me up as an orc for Mordor.


37 posted on 09/06/2014 9:41:39 PM PDT by wetphoenix
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To: wetphoenix

No, you weren’t joking, you have refused to say what type of unit you serve in, and one night after you claiming that I knew more about you than you know about me, I reminded you that I had told you about my type of military service, and that no one here that I know of refuses to give general information about what kind of unit they served in, you then linked me to a video involving your unit.


38 posted on 09/06/2014 9:46:50 PM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

You’re so right about NATO and Russia’s nonsense of pretending to be scared. It makes no sense because NATO doesn’t have the power to fight with Russia. Russia and its supporters both chide and mock the West for being weak and then claim they’re afraid of NATO. They do the same thing about our efforts to place anti-ballistic missiles in Europe to defend against Iran. Russian knows the number of missiles they have are so great that we could never stop them with the effort NATO and US would make. Yet they raise a fuss as if the effort were directed at them, knowing full well that it’s not.


39 posted on 09/07/2014 12:08:22 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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