To: Jacob Kell
Though a leopard changes its spots, it is still a killer. Russia "collapsed" during the cold war, but never changed its ways. It never reduced its fleets, and has drastically increased its Nuke Ballistic Subs and missile systems. China has been building its Army and military systems more in the last five years than the 50 years before that. Africa is awash in new Russian and Chinese small arms and has become mostly Marxist. These same arms are the weapons that the Taliban carry, and the Palestinians, and Iraq, and Iran, and Syria and North Korea and Indonesia and
Prepare to be bitten...
To: American in Israel
Russia "collapsed" during the cold war, but never changed its ways. It never reduced its fleets, and has drastically increased its Nuke Ballistic Subs and missile systems.On the former...you are entirely incorrect. They've gotten rid of the Typhoon-class, and their proposed new SSBN class has had the misfortune of having its missile system cancelled.
6 posted on
12/15/2002 9:40:35 PM PST by
Poohbah
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