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To: ansel12

This is NOT good news. Zero has GUTTED the military. The US no longer has the capability to engage Russia and win.


10 posted on 11/26/2014 8:15:59 AM PST by appalachian_dweller (Live each day as if it's your last. It might be.)
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To: appalachian_dweller

Would be better to move all those “antique” A-10’s there. That was their primary job after all.


11 posted on 11/26/2014 8:18:52 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (You can't spell liberal without label.)
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To: appalachian_dweller

It’s great news, the military isn’t gutted and Russia is no match for NATO.

Get a clue, 142 million population Russia is not the powerhouse that you think it is and I don’t know where you guys came up with that Soviet propaganda, as Russia lacks the ability to fight a large war, conduct large invasions, lacks air power and a real Navy, and still depends largely on 1 year draftees who are poorly trained and equipped.

“Despite the smaller number of U.S. troops in Europe, the military balance there is far more favorable to NATO today than it was when nearly 10 times as many American soldiers, sailors and airmen were stationed on the continent.”

“Consider the situation today. East Germany no longer exists, while Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and every one of Russia’s other erstwhile Warsaw Pact partners are now members of NATO. So are Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which in 1989 were parts of the Soviet Union itself. In 1989, the Red Army had almost a half-million troops and 27 maneuver divisions (plus enormous quantities of artillery and other units) on the territory of its three main allies. Today, it has a total of seven divisions in its entire Western Military District, all of which are based on its own territory. Indeed, the entire Russian army today boasts about 25 divisions, fewer than it had forward deployed in its Eastern European allies during the waning days of the Cold War.

Today, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Germany alone field more divisions than Russia has in its Western Military District. These countries are backstopped by the rest of NATO, including, of course, the United States.”


15 posted on 11/26/2014 8:23:53 AM PST by ansel12
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To: appalachian_dweller
Reminds me of the Berlin crisis on 1961 where we faced off against 10 Soviet tanks at the Berlin dividing line for 24 hours.

Problem is Putin can bring up 500 tanks in short order causing Obama to wet his pants.

16 posted on 11/26/2014 8:24:43 AM PST by AU72
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To: appalachian_dweller

nonsense!


93 posted on 11/26/2014 10:13:29 AM PST by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: appalachian_dweller

Oh bullshit.


168 posted on 11/27/2014 11:33:07 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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