Actually, IIRC, Russia still maintains the largest mounted calvary in the world.
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I won’t be able to note all the REPLACEMENTARIAN silliness for a while.
I need to finish some grading and get off to the univ.
It’s easy to verify facts. There is no modern Russian cavalry.
The Soviet Army retained horse cavalry divisions until 1955, and even at the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, there was an independent horse mounted cavalry squadron in Kyrgyzstan. ( Wikipedia)Even if it were Russian (which it is not), a squadron is hardly sufficient to mount a campaign against an enemy.
So, you have been suckered into this “Russia is going to attack Israel on horseback” fantasy?
World horse population estimated at 58 million
“The figures for Europe show the Russian Federation as having the most horses, at 1,319,358, … Other than the Russian Federation, countries with horse population totals over one million included: China (7,402,450); …”
In the fantasy world of literalist futurism, future Israel will be invaded by an army from the east consisting of 200 million men on horseback.
Now the number of the army of the horsemen was two hundred million; I heard the number of them. (Rev. 9:16)But according to statistics, the entire world population of horses is only one fourth of that needed number, and many of those 58 million horses are not suitable for use in war. (Although that won’t much matter against a modern army such as Israel since no horse will be suitable.) China only has 7.5 million horses today? Where will these other 192.5 million horses come from “real soon now”? Maybe these are really fallen angelic beings on fallen angelic horses.
It’s just another case where modern futurists don’t want to be confused with pesky things like reason, logic, facts, truth, etc, not to mention the Bible. These things all get in the way of their preconceptions.
(Written eighteen posts ago) Another fabrication?