Russians are coming! Everybody get out of the streets!
Posted on 09/24/2014 10:14:40 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom
Goldman Sachs has an office in Moscow. So do Citigroup and Morgan Stanley. JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America Merrill Lynch, too.
Russia was supposed to be a growth market for Wall Street. It is quickly turning out to be a potential financial nightmare and a political hot potato.
With the deteriorating relationship between the United States and Russia over Ukraine, and a series of punitive sanctions clearly slowing Russia’s economy, Wall Street banks are facing a conundrum: Should they stay or go?
Wall Street’s involvement with Russia has long been a source of controversy. Some critics contend that Western banks have quietly helped enrich the government of President Vladimir V. Putin while he ran roughshod over the rule of law, often confiscating assets from political opponents. [...]
(Excerpt) Read more at dealbook.nytimes.com ...
These are not bizzare claims. You are avoiding the issue and prove that you cannot converse in common industry practice about military strength. You have proven my point and are not a compentent military analyst. Your assessments and opinions are not worth the bandwidth post on. Lay off the booze it is showing.
So you got nothing.
Please explain this post about the the russian military today versus 1987, and give some real facts, use some sources.
To: ansel12
“The Russian military is weaker and smaller.”
That really is not true anymore.
15 posted on 9/24/2014 11:27:24 AM by DarthVader
Post 28 does not measure all the intangibles. They are only numbers and quantities which do not measure things like survivability, lethality, measure of effectiveness, reliability and maintainability. If you cannot talk in these terms we will not talk. Here is a little reading assignment for you from WWI which shows a classic example of this in practice and shows how mere numerical superiority is no guarantee of victory. This is a summary (from Princeton even) of one of the greatest naval battles of all time which proves my point. This is not over analytical but a summary of all the things I mentioned. Pay attention in particular to the battle cruiser action. Look up other sources and learn:
https://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Battle_of_Jutland.html
No, seriously, quit laying it on with a trough and post some facts, some sources for your bizarre claims.
It should be easy to find the sources that told you that the Russian army isn’t smaller and weaker now, but is actually stronger and more powerful than it was in 1987.
Here read this and learn. This is even better as it shows Fleet composition and more detail:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jutland
You have to learn how to crawl before you can walk and walk before you can run. There is lots of research and analysis that goes into this but this is the way it is done. I will not deal with your ad-hoc methods of analyses and give them credibility.
No seriously, no articles on the battle of Jutland, post your sources and some facts to support your freakish and bizarre claims.
It should be easy to find the sources that told you that the Russian army isn’t smaller and weaker now, but is actually stronger and more powerful than the USSR forces were in 1987.
Here is a even better one to prep you. This is the Battle of Zama between Hannibal and Scipio Africanus during the Second Punic War. Note the advantage of numerical superiority again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Zama
FU
I am not posting sources to someone who does not understand the science period. If you cannot function in the analysis it is a waste of time.
Yeah, it’s my fault that during the course of an entire day, you can’t find sources that support your whacky nonsense.
This conversation is finished
There was never a conversation, you couldn’t explain your first silly post to me.
To: ansel12
“The Russian military is weaker and smaller.”
That really is not true anymore.
15 posted on 9/24/2014 11:27:24 AM by DarthVader
ESAD
Russians are coming! Everybody get out of the streets!
Wow, talk about some strange stuff, an FSB operative trying to spread propaganda that the Cold War was an illusion of the West and America and President Reagan and for those of us involved in it.
You are really something, clumsy and obvious, but it is so very russian.
I’m not propagating a thing, just trying to have fun or it is becoming tense here. Cold War was real and you are still into it, my friend ansel. You really need to improve your sense of irony as well.
Why shouldn’t it be tense here, we are military veterans or currently serving military and NATO troops, talking to an FSB operative from the Russian Army, as they are invading Ukraine and threatening NATO, and the West is having to prepare for possible war with you to defend civilization again.
Mocking the dangers you presented to America and the entire world only 20 odd years ago, is pure propaganda from a currently serving Russian Special Ops operative.
Those A$$holes deserve it. The McKinseyites, along with the big bankers, kept singing the praises of the BRICs. Now that India has a conservative government, they are on the mend.
The others never met the fundamental test for a functioning market - ability to enforce contracts, right to private property, right to assembly and free speech.
I haven’t heard the acronym BRIC in about 5 years now. Idiots.
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