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Vladimir Putin Says Russia's Military Might Has No Match
NBC News ^ | February 20, 2015

Posted on 02/20/2015 1:11:59 PM PST by Jim Robinson

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday other countries should not have the illusion that they can attain military superiority over Russia, Interfax reported.

"No one should have the illusion that they can gain military superiority over Russia, put any kind of pressure on it. We will always have an adequate answer for any such adventures," he was quoted as saying in an address he will present next week on the Defenders' of the Fatherland Day holiday.

The report of Putin's comments came the same day British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon said that Putin posed a "real and present danger" to the Baltic nations...

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: eurasianunion; military; neosovietrevanchism; putin; russia; saberrattling; ukraine
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To: molson209

a la’ Hitler, who flooded the Berlin subways to keep the Russians out, killing some 95K loyal Berliners. Germany wasn’t good enough for the great Hitler so he said.


61 posted on 02/20/2015 2:13:03 PM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: molson209
Maybe Putin is dying and wants take as many people as possible with him

"Is Vladimir Putin hiding a $200 billion fortune?"

62 posted on 02/20/2015 2:15:52 PM PST by ansel12 (Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
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To: John S Mosby

That big vehicle it sits on, made in Belarus, is actually kind of impressive in its own right. Russia also uses versions in anti-aircraft systems.


63 posted on 02/20/2015 2:16:44 PM PST by GeronL
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To: Gay State Conservative
If I was a resident of Latvia,Lithuania,Estonia,Finland or Poland I'd be checking airline schedules and highway maps right now.

Either carry your go back or an anti-tank missile. You're going to need one or the other.

64 posted on 02/20/2015 2:18:00 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Darth Obama on 529 plans: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.)
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To: KarlInOhio
Either carry your go back

"Go bag". Not go back.

I hate autocorrect except when it corrects my typing to match my thinking.

65 posted on 02/20/2015 2:21:24 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Darth Obama on 529 plans: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.)
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To: Jim Robinson

“Obama has replace the military brass with fellow travelers (and homos).”

That may explain why the Pentagon announced today what normally would be considered top secret war plans for Iraq.


66 posted on 02/20/2015 2:27:41 PM PST by odawg
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To: John S Mosby

During the last few years of the reign of Czar Nicholas II, attention was being paid to southern Siberia, that swath traced out by the Trans-Siberian railway. His Prime Minister, Pyotr Stolypin, was a proponent of offering incentives for groups of eastern Europeans to move to southern Siberia to farm, to occupy the land and raise the economic level there. Relatives of my Grandfather took part in this movement and emigrated to the Irkutsk region in 1910.


67 posted on 02/20/2015 2:29:34 PM PST by CMB_polarization
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To: ansel12

“I’m really curious how you guys have decided that our GIs are now the dregs of the earth that are suddenly incompetent, and can’t fight.”

The JAG runs the military. That, and when the military is more concerned about crushing Christianity and promoting homosexuality and a myriad of other liberal causes, we can expect nothing else.


68 posted on 02/20/2015 2:32:45 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Jim Robinson; GeronL; MeganC; Greetings_Puny_Humans; yldstrk; GraceG; elhombrelibre; ansel12; ...
Soviet Tigers do not change their stripes.

http://youtu.be/D4x_OmqGs40?t=12m5s

That is from May of Last Year by the way.

69 posted on 02/20/2015 2:33:44 PM PST by KC_Lion (The Issue is Not The Issue, The Issue is The Revolution.)
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To: molson209

..wants take as many people as possible with him


Certainly within the realm of possibility. Thanks for your reply!


70 posted on 02/20/2015 2:49:18 PM PST by jttpwalsh
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To: Jim Robinson

The only reason why the Russians during the Soviet Union era had a credible nuclear deterrent was their ICBM force with nearly 1,500 launch sites—we now know that their ballistic missile submarine force were not paragons of reliability and they didn’t have a big bomber force like the USAF did up until the end of the Cold War.


71 posted on 02/20/2015 2:49:49 PM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: CMB_polarization
When the United States adopted the term “Homeland Security” after the attack on the World Trade Center, the expression bothered me no end. “Homeland” made me think “fatherland” and that made me think of Nazis.

That also creeped me out and made the hair on the back of my neck raise up. I could not believe someone, especially from the Republican Party, would create such a named agency.

I have been leery of our ever expanding government since I was a teenager and when DHS was created I decided we had become something other than a free nation where the individual reigned supreme.

72 posted on 02/20/2015 2:50:50 PM PST by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: KC_Lion

Yes, Putin brought back the old military parades on May Day in Red Square


73 posted on 02/20/2015 2:54:16 PM PST by GeronL
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To: Jim Robinson

Pfft. Putin lacks one thing. Our tranny brigades courtesy of my Obama.


74 posted on 02/20/2015 2:56:21 PM PST by Viennacon
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To: CodeToad

The question in post 59 is for you also.


75 posted on 02/20/2015 3:50:29 PM PST by ansel12 (Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
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To: Jim Robinson

In an ultimate military showdown the only thing that matters is nuclear throw-weight and quality.

Armies, navies, supplies, wealth...none of that matters when the balloon goes up.

My ranking of various nuclear powers throw-weigh and quality is thus.

Russia
USA
Israel
France
Britain
India
Pakistan
N.Korea
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Iran (way at the bottom)


76 posted on 02/20/2015 4:17:48 PM PST by Bobalu (If we live to see 2017 we will be kissing the ground)
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To: Bobalu

Russia
USA
China
Israel
France
Britain
India
Pakistan
N.Korea

Good grief! I left off China.... wish it could be left off the list.


77 posted on 02/20/2015 4:21:35 PM PST by Bobalu (If we live to see 2017 we will be kissing the ground)
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To: SandRat

The “Rodina” is Mother Russia.


78 posted on 02/20/2015 5:24:14 PM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: Jim Robinson

It’s easy to thumb your nose at the big dog when he is heavily chained. The problem is when the next “owner” of the dog unlooses the chains (and figuratively, the dogs of war). Remember what happened when Reagan won - the nose-thumbers did a very quick turnaround...


79 posted on 02/21/2015 3:45:40 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Jim Robinson

Putin is full of his bad self. Jerk.


80 posted on 02/21/2015 7:04:36 AM PST by SaraJohnson
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