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To: mac_truck; Zhang Fei

Russia may have nuclear weapons but they are no longer a superpower.

They have exactly no functioning aircraft carriers, more than half of their ‘active’ submarine fleet is along side and rusting in port, their surface combatant fleet is hurting for spare parts and trained crews, their tank forces are a shell of what they used to be especially now that Ukraine no longer repairs Russia’s tanks, and even their nuclear capabilities are questionable when the procurement section of the RVSN RF is flooded with requests for all things related to corrosion in the silos.

They are a faded power that is struggling to recapture their glory days by predating on their weaker neighbors like Georgia and Ukraine.


52 posted on 12/07/2018 8:25:36 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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They have exactly no functioning aircraft carriers, more than half of their ‘active’ submarine fleet is along side and rusting in port, their surface combatant fleet is hurting for spare parts and trained crews, their tank forces are a shell of what they used to be especially now that Ukraine no longer repairs Russia’s tanks...

Why Russia isn't the expansionist threat that dopey neocons make it to be?

I'll take Globalist Lies and Misnomers for 700 Megan...

56 posted on 12/07/2018 10:27:30 AM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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