Posted on 03/05/2014 6:22:09 AM PST by secretsexposed89
Everywhere one looks today, signs of a resurgent Russia are omnipresent. Although Vladimir Putin has undoubtedly worked hard to craft this image, it is a mirage. Russia is doomed over the long-term, and its short-term maneuvers arent enough to compensate for this fact.
Traditionally, Russian power has rested on four pillars: population, energy, weaponry and geography. Three of these are diminishing.
The backbone of modern Russian power has been its massive population. Nowhere was this better demonstrated than in WWII. Russia no doubt played a leading role in orchestrating Hitlers demise, starting with its legendary stands in Leningrad and Stalingrad. However, Stalin sapped the military might of Nazi Germany less because of the strategic or tactical genius he possessed, and almost entirely through his willingness to expend the lives of his citizenry.
According to some estimates, the Soviet Union lost somewhere between 22 and 28 million people during WWII. To put this in perspective, the United States and Great Britain each lost less than half a million people and even Germany only lost between 7 and 9 million lives during the war. Nonetheless, for nearly half a century after the war the Soviet Union could credibly threaten the much richer West solely because of the sheer number of men it could put under arms.
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Well, as a citizen of this Doomed Country I will make sure to translate this fine article and demonstrate it to my fellow orcs of Mordor. It is good to know that elves of The West have such great concern for our future.
It’s good to see yet another expert of my country’s history and military strategy, mr. Moonshine.
Ask the expert anything. You might learn something useful.
It is. That’s one of the many reasons why this article is BS. Another is that their energy production is not declining. They are just starting to frack.
Please offer your assessment of the article, I am quite interested.
Might be better to say America is doomed.
Russia just gave Egypt 2 Billion in Military aid.
What a Obama world.
Scum barrel says stop talking bad about his president.
Newsmax
Scarborough: Criticizing Obama Comforts US Enemies
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 09:09 AM
By: Wanda Carruthers
Harsh criticism of the president, whether it comes from Republicans or Democrats, only serves to comfort enemies of the United States, talk show host Joe Scarborough said Wednesday.
How? Will 0bama hold his breath until his lips turn purple to make Vlad surrender?
Russia:
Population
- 2013 estimate 143,700,000[3] (9th)
- Density 8.4/km2 (217th)
21.5/sq mi
GDP (PPP) 2014 estimate
- Total $2.678 trillion[4] (6th)
- Per capita $18,996[4] (57th)
GDP (nominal) 2014 estimate
- Total $2.215 trillion[4] (7th)
- Per capita $15,717[4] (49th)
US:
Population
- 2013 estimate 317,620,000[5] (3rd)
- Density 34.2/km2 (180th)
88.6/sq mi
GDP (PPP) 2013 estimate
- Total $16.724 trillion[6] (1st)
- Per capita $52,839[6] (6th)
GDP (nominal) 2013 estimate
- Total $16.724 trillion[6] (1st)
- Per capita $52,839[6] (9th)
Source: Wikipedia
I know Russians who say they won WW2 not the ‘allies’.
Russia doesn’t hava monoploy at throw bodies at the enemy. My father, a Korean War vet, said the Chinese would throw wave after wave to take a hill. The only thing that would save your units life was getting ammo to the machine gunners carried in buckets like water to a fire. It was a mass flow problem of lead vs. human flesh.
Oh, hardly! I do not presume to be able to absorb even the smallest fraction of the wisdom you posses. But i am proud to say that i constantly encounter great experts! They are not hesitate to remind me of my coutnry’s terrible past, bleak present and apocalyptic future!
China hasn’t changed, except they’re becoming much, much better armed.
Americans cannot buy things in China. They can only “invest” as minority owners.
So in reality, Americans cannot invest in China.
Americans can only look for majority Chinese investors, then log on as minority users. Across the economy.
China is buying, and investing, we are selling out. Both parties are selling out America.
Yet we continue to sell off AMERICAN manufacturing, and further weaken America.
Both parties are selling America out.
Stand up and bring back American manufacturing.
Bring back American work.
That was then. Now, every dead Chinese soldier will have been the ONLY child of some Chinese couple. How long can the Chinese leadership do that before parents, with nothing left to lose, rise up in rebellion?
All nations will fall to the mighty Barack Hussein Obama! haha
That policy has recently been repealed, to the best of my knowledge.
Just saying.
That’s why Russian claim to European descent is so ridiculous: they are Asians in every respect but appearance. Fortunately, their fertility rates are nowhere close :)
Kind of like the movie Red Dawn: “There WERE 1.3 billion Chinese.”
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