Hawktawk wrote:Yeah well that is part of the problem with Russia. They have a third world economy and far and away the most sophisticated lethal modern nuclear arsenal, the best subs, most launching programs, superior hypersonic missile capability. They have learned in proxy wars in iraq and syria they cant stand up to the big green machine on the ground in conventional warfare. I dont think they want to even try.
Not sure who all may have read the article on the commander in chief thread about russia working on satellite killer missile, may already have the technology developed. Blind us.The potential for a nuclear pearl harbor than could devastate america, decapitate it with a first strike on a flat footed overconfident foe is very real.70 % of our arsenal is a sitting duck, 100%if they can blind us. Beyond that Putin and the chinese premier meet regularly and Putin has discusses a military alliance.
I've never understood the dismissal of the peril posed by russia.
Break it down for us. Explain to us why Russia wants a World War. What it gains. How it plans to invade and take advantage of a World War. If you provide a good analysis of why Russia benefits from a World War or how they expect to win, some of us might listen.
Our view of Russia is based on the following:
1. Russia does not benefit from a world war, has no allies strong enough to back them, and will be destroyed while having the a population, economy, and culture insufficient to power them back to prominence.
2. Russia doesn't have a strong enough Navy to invade anyone at sea. They are a mostly land-locked nation. So their target is nations that have already broken off from them they haven't been able to control which would further stretch their resources.
3. Russia relies on foreign trade for oil, minerals, and other natural resources it trades mainly with Europe and China. Its already weak economy would be absolutely decimated in a war with just about anyone.
4. Russia's political standing is weak as well given the primary form of competition in the modern day is economic. There is little reason for any nation to support a bid by Russia to expand militarily except perhaps North Korea.
Russia is not the powerful nation it was in the 80s when it was expanding the U.S.S.R. It's a heavily land-locked nation with a shrinking population and a national resource based economy without a strong technological service sector or manufacturing base with little support.
We're not dismissing Russia, so much as the clear proof is that Russia is not expanding power, not economically powerful, and relies heavily on supposed enemy nations for their economic well being such as their trade with Germany. Some of us wondering why some American politicians are trying to rebuild Russia as the boogeyman when they are no longer the expanding Soviet Empire of the past and China is the second largest and growing economy in the world with four times our population, a clear desire to control information including rewriting America out of history, the power to force American companies and entities like the NBA to comply with their laws and information control including shrugging about Hong Kong being forcibly controlled, and their expanding military with enough of a population size to in the most extreme of scenarios kill every American in America and repopulate our nation without blinking an eye.
You looking at Russia while this behemoth known as China continues to grow by stealing technology, forcing other nations to comply with it, using its economic power to crush opposition to its crimes, and even basically caused a global pandemic through its irresponsible handling of a virus including lying about its numbers and the spread is like someone worried about a mouse while King Kong is about to rampage across the nation.
.Barr already gave John Durham who is investigating the russian investigators SC powers to saddle Biden with that throughout his administration.