Russia has the 2nd most nukes and we should be weary of them. However, they have the GDP of Italy and have almost zero power projection. They provide no threat to the US, or to Eastern Europe at all other than nukes. The DNC media hypes Russia to scare their audience, but its all just an act to take advantage of the gullible.
Fun fact, the only drydock in Russia capable of servicing their aircraft carrier sank in October 2018. Russia attempted to purchase two helicopter carriers from France a few years back since they no longer have the ability to construct anything larger than a destroyer, but France sold them to Egypt instead.
"wary" :)
With respect to the media hyping Russia, that is in order to deflect our attention from China, who is not only a valid threat to us in the next couple decades, but is the only largely Communist power left on earth, and thus the last great hope of our media.
Not a threat in the conventional sense. They cOuld be a huge threat in many other ways. They as stated above could also be ome a great ally. Since Europeans are the new commies on the block.
As far as I know, and have read, Russia was never really about projecting force. Adm. Kuznetsov is for war, like most of their fleet. Sadly, Kuznetsov is so old, and in such a state of disrepair, it doesn't even do that very well. Remember, in Syria, Kuznetsov was there but it was only for Russian television. It launched a few missions, but inevitably had to be dragged home where it has been in repair since. I could be wrong by my take is that Russians have long relied on perimeter defense in the form of missiles, which is why they have the absolute scariest of surface to air missile systems in the world. Couple that with their "eye-watering" level of electronic warfare (a US commander said that during the Obama/Killary Ukraine coup) and you have some pretty formidable defenses. And now that they've shown the world they can launch cruise missiles and hit targets hundreds of miles away, you have to come away with the idea that they've adopted a model of efficiency considering their economy. Now, this isn't saying it's fool-proof at all but when you're in dire straits, you have to do what you have to do.
Is Russia a threat in a direct war? Well, not in the US. No one is a direct threat in a US land invasion. In Europe? Hell yes Russia is a threat. The zerg by itself is still a valid tactic. Russia started the push-back of ISIS in Syria once their foot was in the door. They didn't play by the same rules Obama tied the US hands with (the globalists wanted Syria as their latest acquisition which is why we let ISIS spread, and in many cases, allowed their funding as well as trained them...well, we trained "rebels" who then turned their money and weapons over to ISIS).
And that's just in a direct war. This doesn't take into account their covert and long-term stuff. I mean, look how many kids like the idea of socialism today. Look at Reddit. People out-right calling for violence against people with whom they disagree.
edit: Oh and we also can't dismiss their submarine force
Force projection is part of warfare, and much of their long-range bomber force has been reduced to a gaggle of tarmac queens. The problem with the Russian military is that they don't have near the funding that the US one does. Many of their soldiers are also one-year conscripts because of that.
Russia is out for themselves to a point.. but they are against the cabal running the US.. we figured this out I think about 4 or 5 years ago.. I can't remember what happened but my friends and I were like WOW.. okay. Something about exposing them. But this was before Pres T got in!
Hey Dude, Russia and China have way more technologically advanced aircraft carriers than the US.. you can tell by the high-speed, low drag ramp at the end of the takeoff runway, can you imagine all of the extra lift they get from those! Who needs nuclear power, aegis theater radar, and sea sparrow missiles.. when you can have a.. uh.. ramp!
Fires in a ship repair environment are very common and almost impossible to completely prevent. There is a lot of welding, painting, flammable cleaners and solvents and all kinds of stuff...it's pretty much working in a powder keg.
My brother in law who is in the U.S Navy told me the other day that Russia is mostly concentrating on their subs, not surface crafts. They have very advance submarines.
Russia has been developing long range undersea cruise missiles powered by radioactive decay (the same thing that powers some satellites in space, far from the sun), if I have been hearing right.
They might not be a threat to conquer us, but they can hurt us badly in a serious war.
Nah man russia could defanitly fuck us up, highly doubt they could win unless they want to completely destroy Russia (and possibly the world) in the prosses. They have some pretty trippy nuke tech. One of America's biggest weaknesses is our power grid which I believe Russia could take down rather easily if they truly wanted to. If our power grid went down the US would go into a state of chaos only after a few days. Our military would still be active of course but with the country in a state of martial law (probably after a week of verry little to no power) they will be slightly diatracted opening the door for a well placed Satan 2 or status-6 to go off. I have long believed their are only 2 ways the US will ever loose.
1-we destroy ourselfs from the inside (see democrats and current state of the left for example)
I hear they were using it to house a server farm that was aggregating names of deceased Americans so that millions of russian operatives in the US could vote for Trump. It's been working overtime, then overheated and started a fire.
Russia is a rival, let by a wily and capable and deadly leader. We should co-operate with them, where we can, and trust them exactly as far as we can throw them.
People think America has a problem with political embezzlement? If Putin wants so much as a country road built he'd better come down and do the finances himself, otherwise he'll end up paying who knows how much money for nothing to ever happen.
We pay cruddy contractors to do cruddy work, they pay nonexistent contractors to do no work.
Many ways to wage war. Cut off gas to countries at their most critical time of need, find useful idiots to pay off to try to destroy their own country, have a worldwide intelligence network that can sell sensitive data to the highest bidder, develop a team of cyber warriors, etc. There's still a spymaster in charge of the country. I think it is unwise to underestimate him.
In the area of "Federally Recognized Threats" I recall when the US Govt said we must fight in Viet Nam, before the NVA Navy sails into San Francisco! I thought that a 'bit much' even then! Same/same here, I think
I do not think it is a threat. Russia is a candidate to be a great US ally unfortunately that Obungo had to destroy that relationship.
Right? I don't think it would be so bad to have warmer Russia relations.
Russia invading Crimea destroyed that relationship
Crimea is rightfully theirs though.
Says who? Cossacks seem to disagree. Russia has a history of territorial expansion. Have to put a stop to it or they will keep expanding.
the Ukrainians aren't even real people. Read history books.
Here's the thing:
Russia is too dang white.
Snow white. Siberian white.
White nights.
Caucasian white straight from the Caucasus Mountains.
Pink cheeks and blue eyes white.
And they like being white and want to keep it that way.
Furthermore, they like Christians. Western civilization.
And we know that white people are bad.
Christians are bad.
Capitalism is bad.
Western civilization is very bad.
And Putin is draining his own swamp, just as Trump is.
To make matters worse, they tried communism and didn't like it very much.
For all the reasons above, they cannot be allowed to be friends with us.
And the Deep State is going to protect us from the evil white Russians for our own good -- by any means necessary.
Russia has the 2nd most nukes and we should be weary of them. However, they have the GDP of Italy and have almost zero power projection. They provide no threat to the US, or to Eastern Europe at all other than nukes. The DNC media hypes Russia to scare their audience, but its all just an act to take advantage of the gullible.
Fun fact, the only drydock in Russia capable of servicing their aircraft carrier sank in October 2018. Russia attempted to purchase two helicopter carriers from France a few years back since they no longer have the ability to construct anything larger than a destroyer, but France sold them to Egypt instead.
"wary" :) With respect to the media hyping Russia, that is in order to deflect our attention from China, who is not only a valid threat to us in the next couple decades, but is the only largely Communist power left on earth, and thus the last great hope of our media.
Russia says the US is decadent.
They are decrepit, dilapidated, largely defunct.
I'd rather be decadent.
They are correct.
They wouldn't be decrepit if our Deep State would allow us to play with them.
I like Russia.
I like Putin.
Together, our nations could make the world safe from communism.
But we'd have to kick the commies out of the US first.
>I like Russia. I like Putin.
Based dystopian nuclear shithole and based murdering KGB goon?
Not a threat in the conventional sense. They cOuld be a huge threat in many other ways. They as stated above could also be ome a great ally. Since Europeans are the new commies on the block.
"Always a new boogeyman." I find that to be very true.
As far as I know, and have read, Russia was never really about projecting force. Adm. Kuznetsov is for war, like most of their fleet. Sadly, Kuznetsov is so old, and in such a state of disrepair, it doesn't even do that very well. Remember, in Syria, Kuznetsov was there but it was only for Russian television. It launched a few missions, but inevitably had to be dragged home where it has been in repair since. I could be wrong by my take is that Russians have long relied on perimeter defense in the form of missiles, which is why they have the absolute scariest of surface to air missile systems in the world. Couple that with their "eye-watering" level of electronic warfare (a US commander said that during the Obama/Killary Ukraine coup) and you have some pretty formidable defenses. And now that they've shown the world they can launch cruise missiles and hit targets hundreds of miles away, you have to come away with the idea that they've adopted a model of efficiency considering their economy. Now, this isn't saying it's fool-proof at all but when you're in dire straits, you have to do what you have to do.
Is Russia a threat in a direct war? Well, not in the US. No one is a direct threat in a US land invasion. In Europe? Hell yes Russia is a threat. The zerg by itself is still a valid tactic. Russia started the push-back of ISIS in Syria once their foot was in the door. They didn't play by the same rules Obama tied the US hands with (the globalists wanted Syria as their latest acquisition which is why we let ISIS spread, and in many cases, allowed their funding as well as trained them...well, we trained "rebels" who then turned their money and weapons over to ISIS).
And that's just in a direct war. This doesn't take into account their covert and long-term stuff. I mean, look how many kids like the idea of socialism today. Look at Reddit. People out-right calling for violence against people with whom they disagree.
edit: Oh and we also can't dismiss their submarine force
Force projection is part of warfare, and much of their long-range bomber force has been reduced to a gaggle of tarmac queens. The problem with the Russian military is that they don't have near the funding that the US one does. Many of their soldiers are also one-year conscripts because of that.
Historically Russia has never into Navy very well either. They turned that around with their sub fleet, however.
Somebody tell Mitt Romney and the rest of the democrats...1985 called, they want their foreign policy back.
Russia is out for themselves to a point.. but they are against the cabal running the US.. we figured this out I think about 4 or 5 years ago.. I can't remember what happened but my friends and I were like WOW.. okay. Something about exposing them. But this was before Pres T got in!
No we don't, Hollywood is too cucked to acknowledge China is who we should fear. That's a billion customers they would miss out on!
Last time it ventured out, you could follow it from 50+ miles by the smoke trail it left behind...
C H I N A
The Russians put that thing to sea with ocean going tugs because it is such a disaster.
I've been on one of their battleships the Vladivostok, It was a rusty bucket of bolts. I snuck up to the bridge and peeked in definitely low tech.
Send Hilary over there to cough all over it
Hey Dude, Russia and China have way more technologically advanced aircraft carriers than the US.. you can tell by the high-speed, low drag ramp at the end of the takeoff runway, can you imagine all of the extra lift they get from those! Who needs nuclear power, aegis theater radar, and sea sparrow missiles.. when you can have a.. uh.. ramp!
The only dry dock they have big enough to hold it for repairs/refits, sank
Fires in a ship repair environment are very common and almost impossible to completely prevent. There is a lot of welding, painting, flammable cleaners and solvents and all kinds of stuff...it's pretty much working in a powder keg.
Source...worked in ship repair environment.
My brother in law who is in the U.S Navy told me the other day that Russia is mostly concentrating on their subs, not surface crafts. They have very advance submarines.
In space they are probably closer to parity, along with the ChiComms. That battleground is critical as we are so tech dependent for defense.
If their ICBMs work better than that, they do....
Russia has been developing long range undersea cruise missiles powered by radioactive decay (the same thing that powers some satellites in space, far from the sun), if I have been hearing right.
They might not be a threat to conquer us, but they can hurt us badly in a serious war.
Just because they are not doing as well as we are does not mean they are not a threat. They have nukes. They will always be a real threat.
Nah man russia could defanitly fuck us up, highly doubt they could win unless they want to completely destroy Russia (and possibly the world) in the prosses. They have some pretty trippy nuke tech. One of America's biggest weaknesses is our power grid which I believe Russia could take down rather easily if they truly wanted to. If our power grid went down the US would go into a state of chaos only after a few days. Our military would still be active of course but with the country in a state of martial law (probably after a week of verry little to no power) they will be slightly diatracted opening the door for a well placed Satan 2 or status-6 to go off. I have long believed their are only 2 ways the US will ever loose.
1-we destroy ourselfs from the inside (see democrats and current state of the left for example)
2- mutual assured destruction
I hear they were using it to house a server farm that was aggregating names of deceased Americans so that millions of russian operatives in the US could vote for Trump. It's been working overtime, then overheated and started a fire.
Thank God the dems are against voter ID!
Al-Qaeda didn't even have an aircraft carrier.
Russia is a rival, let by a wily and capable and deadly leader. We should co-operate with them, where we can, and trust them exactly as far as we can throw them.
Wow, actual news, useful news!
Must be the Russian version of Carl. Damn him.
People think America has a problem with political embezzlement? If Putin wants so much as a country road built he'd better come down and do the finances himself, otherwise he'll end up paying who knows how much money for nothing to ever happen.
We pay cruddy contractors to do cruddy work, they pay nonexistent contractors to do no work.
Many ways to wage war. Cut off gas to countries at their most critical time of need, find useful idiots to pay off to try to destroy their own country, have a worldwide intelligence network that can sell sensitive data to the highest bidder, develop a team of cyber warriors, etc. There's still a spymaster in charge of the country. I think it is unwise to underestimate him.
In the area of "Federally Recognized Threats" I recall when the US Govt said we must fight in Viet Nam, before the NVA Navy sails into San Francisco! I thought that a 'bit much' even then! Same/same here, I think
Aircraft carriers are obsolete anyway. At least against well-equiped countries with good anti-ship missiles and hypersonic glide weapons.
Aircraft carriers are not a threat to major world powers with the advent of modern hypersonic cruise missiles.
Great for bullying small countries though.