Posted on 05/08/2022 8:53:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Maybe a couple. Most have deteriorated. The Soviet Union fell apart 30 years ago. So how many of them have they maintained?
“So how many of them have they maintained?”
4,219.
Yeah, like anyone knows the answer to that question.
;-)
Here is some Congressional testimony that touches briefly on the topic:
https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Richard04.20.2021.pdf
The bottom line is that Russia takes civil defense for civilians seriously—as a part of its nuclear strategy.
The US does not.
It is active participation in a foreign war without benefit of Congress or WRITTEN Presidential approval is what it is.
Moscow has acknowledged at least 12 general officers were killed
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Unless announced today, the Orcs have only announced one general killed.
At a point, Vlad just says "Screw this", boards his helicopter and heads for the Russian Cheyenne Mountain, where he's gonna mash the button.
And then when the fallout settles we can look at each other and say "See, he really was nuts."
The Russians have planned for the fact that some of their nuclear weapons may not function as planned.
That’s why they have 6000.
If the first one or two don’t work, the third or fourth one will still get the job done.
Or be one of the top honchos.
“They fought one of the most brutal campaigns in the history of warfare, and prevailed.”
Only because the United States propped their country up with our technology, resources, and manufacturing so they could keep fighting. Otherwise they would have been overrun.
“We’re the closest right now to a nuclear war as we have ever been during my lifetime (53 years).”
Not really, since the Russians actually issued an order to launch their weapons (by mistake) in 1983. We are nowhere near that point right now. Not by a longshot.
I’m appalled by it. Apparently the Dems have to tell everyone what we are doing as a follow on to Obama’s 2012 message for Putin “ ‘After My Election, I’ll Have More Flexibility’.”
And Obama’s people are back in the government and telling Biden what to do and say.
Thank the late? Prof. Leon Goure of the University of Florida for exposing the Soviet’s massive CD program in the 1970s. The U.S. Govt tried to silence him but failed.
Leon is one of America’s “Cold War” heroes. He was a professor of mine at his special seminar on Strategic and International Affairs in the mid-70s.
Don’t forget that Russia/SU also invaded Poland, Norway and Finland on their own, incurring severe casualties there.
The U.S. gave Russia about 8,000 railroad engines and boxcars/flatbed cars during WW2 as well as hundreds if not thousands of aircraft including the P39 Aircobras.
Because economics don't matter during war. It's the only way to salvage any chance in NOV.
But ordinary Russians were no more like Stalin than ordinary Americans are like Obama. Even though I know the facts, I think of my county, and can't image it being ravaged as Europe and Russia were during WWII.
welp, thanks to the democrats, they’ve imported some folks who know how to live in a cave!
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