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To: MercyFlush
Russia doesn’t have the capability to project significant power to Cuba or Venezuela. And neither Cuba nor Venezuela have functional facilities in place to adequately host Russian forces.

Yet. Germany didn't have the capability to do anything while the French were rubbing their noses in it in the 1920s, but we all know how that turned out.

29 posted on 01/13/2022 9:53:16 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

In ten years Russia will have even less capability to project power across oceans than they do today. Russia has a large number of ships but most of them are alongside, in extended years-long refit, and they count small boats like RHIBS as ‘ships’.

They have a predominantly littoral surface fleet and a declining submarine fleet.

Conversely, the US Navy is a focused blue water navy with little to no littoral components. The US Navy abdicated the littoral role to the Coasties after WW2...which is why the USGC often gets deployed to shallow water theatres such as the Tigris-Euphrates delta.

In short, the Russians can threaten to send troops to Cuba and Venezuela all they want. Now let’s see them do it.


68 posted on 01/13/2022 10:44:06 AM PST by MercyFlush (DANGER: You are being conditioned to view your freedom as selfish)
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