...Romania is taking dramatic steps to modernize its military
The gypsies really need that upgrade.
Posted on 10/17/2015 2:56:48 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
Romania is taking dramatic steps to modernize its military. Driven by fears of Russian aggression, worries about older weaponry and equipment, and a not-completely-altruistic desire to protect neighboring Moldova, the government is committed to increasing its defense spending over the next decade.
A document recently obtained by the Romanian news site Profit.ro reveals that the government is planning to use a national emergency procedure that will allocate more state funds to domestic defense companies. The document argues that the country's lack of investment in its defense industry "could significantly injure the basic interests and security of the Romanian state." This is the same style of rhetoric used in spring 2014, when Romania canceled the debt of 15 defense companies to keep them out of bankruptcy.
In short, Romania wants to be ready should Russia attempt to repeat its shenanigans in Ukraine and Crimea on Romanian territory, in Moldova, or in Transnistria. Romania was former member of the Soviet bloc and now belongs to NATO. Moldova was formerly part of the USSR, but is not a NATO member. Separatists in Transnistria — an unrecognized breakaway republic that splintered from Moldova after the dissolution of the Soviet Union — are supported by Russia, and observers worry that the Kremlin might eventually annex the territory from Moldova as it did Crimea from Ukraine.
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Timely story of interest to those of us concerned about Russia’s strength, aggression and Putin’s ambitions to reconstitute a USSR 2.0.
Eff’ing Obola’s weakness (and flexibility w/ Putin after the 2012 elections) has endangered far more than Americans.
Excellent video showing how Obama was wrong about absolutely everything.
“But but but, Putin is harmless, he loves children and likes to plant unicorn shaped flowers in his magical garden. He has no ambitions”
- resident putin sympathizers.
Blah, blah, blah.
The fact is, Woodrow Wilson created chaos, or conditions for chaos to emerge, from the Rhine to the Volga and from Helsinki to Baghdad, and we are still dealing with the consequences 97 years later.
The general civilizational alignments that existed in 1914 were the result of 1000 years of organic evolution. They were destroyed and replaced with theories.
The European question resolves itself to this: "Where does the border between Germany and Russia lie?" The middle Eastern question resolves itself to: "Who can govern and pacify the Sunni tribes?"
I could picture voices like that at the height of the Cold War, but I am surprised you advocate for surrender now after Reagan already won it!
I have been a consistent advocate for American victory.
Interesting.
Now, 6 years later, our biggest enemy and problem is still radical Islam.But now we have a stronger Russia to help us out. Our next president,Trump will have to partner up with Putin. He's already said he can get along with him.
Face it, imo, Putins favorability on FR has gone from 0 to 50%+. And he earned it.
Likewise, turning Galicia and Lodomeria over to Russia (from Austria) was a mistake, and is the root of the current crisis in the Ukrainian-Ruthenian region.
The distinct Slav polities are too small to manage alone (possibly excepting Poland), and are again being subsumed into a German-run system (which is probably not strong enough to recapture Lemberg). The former Ottoman satrapies of Moldavia and the Bukovina never really fit in with the Romanian state, the gross enlargement of which at the expense of the Magyars was another colossal mistake.
It's going to take a bit of doing to prevent another general war over all this crap.
Oh, so the blacks and the women were smart and saw through how wrong Mitt is so he was only left with the votes of working white males, who are unquestionably dumb and can not summon the mental capabilities to bow to Czar Putin?
Oh sure. Thanks Vlad for the help.
If that is true then I can't understand why you want to give Finns, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Poles and Romanians into slavery under Kremlin?
Things have changed, but not toward what calls for surrender. Here is an iconographic.
Well, Obama DID communicate to Putin that Obama would have “more flexibility” to help Putin after Obama’s reelection.
Bye-bye, “Transnystia”...
Well, Obama DID communicate to Putin that Obama would have “more flexibility” to help Putin after Obama’s reelection.
Bye-bye, “Transnistria”...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJGb_gg4Cuw
During the hectic split-second timing of a campaign, this is a man who took time out to sit beside an old friend who was dying of cancer. His campaign managers were understandably impatient, but he said, “There aren’t many left who care what happens to her. I’d like her to know I care.” This is a man who said to his 19-year-old son, “There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life on that rock, with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then you have a real start.” This is not a man who could carelessly send other people’s sons to war. And that is the issue of this campaign that makes all the other problems I’ve discussed academic, unless we realize we’re in a war that must be won.
Those who would trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state have told us they have a utopian solution of peace without victory. They call their policy “accommodation.” And they say if we’ll only avoid any direct confrontation with the enemy, he’ll forget his evil ways and learn to love us. All who oppose them are indicted as warmongers. They say we offer simple answers to complex problems. Well, perhaps there is a simple answer—not an easy answer—but simple: If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based on what we know in our hearts is morally right.
We cannot buy our security, our freedom from the threat of the bomb by committing an immorality so great as saying to a billion human beings now enslaved behind the Iron Curtain, “Give up your dreams of freedom because to save our own skins, we’re willing to make a deal with your slave masters.” Alexander Hamilton said, “A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” Now let’s set the record straight. There’s no argument over the choice between peace and war, but there’s only one guaranteed way you can have peace—and you can have it in the next second—surrender.
Admittedly, there’s a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson of history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face—that their policy of accommodation is appeasement, and it gives no choice between peace and war, only between fight or surrender. If we continue to accommodate, continue to back and retreat, eventually we have to face the final demand—the ultimatum. And what then—when Nikita Khrushchev has told his people he knows what our answer will be? He has told them that we’re retreating under the pressure of the Cold War, and someday when the time comes to deliver the final ultimatum, our surrender will be voluntary, because by that time we will have been weakened from within spiritually, morally, and economically. He believes this because from our side he’s heard voices pleading for “peace at any price” or “better Red than dead,” or as one commentator put it, he’d rather “live on his knees than die on his feet.” And therein lies the road to war, because those voices don’t speak for the rest of us.
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