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Russia's collapsing military-industrial complex

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MassuhDGoodName:
A word to the wise:

Adolph Hitler and his entire Reich leadership laughed and sneered at the Russian Red Army 70 years ago, with numerous self-serving propaganda articles of the type similar to this one by Reuben Johnson.

First of all, I question what credentials Mr. Johnson has in his life which would establish his being an authority on the capabilities of the modern Russian military.

Such opinions as these he offers serve only one thing:  to lull those of us in the West to sleep, so that we consider "the Russkis" to be of no importance; posing no threat to our security.

The armed forces of The Third Reich were the most advanced and powerful the world had ever witnessed, of unquestioned technical and numerical superiority.  Its leadership publicly boasted that the entire Soviet Union would be crushed within two weeks time of a full on Nazi invasion.  At the time of the invasion, the USSR was caught sleeping, its armed forces technologically and numerically inferior, as were its overall standard of living and economy.

A more carefully researched view of history than the one offered here by Mr. Johnson, might afford some here a slightly more "healthy" respect for Russian national pride and Russian national capabilities.

I state this because it was not the highly advanced U.S. Army which defeated Nazi Germany.

It was in the fact the Soviet Red Army which not only repelled the mightiest fighting force the world had ever seen, but then staged a full on counterattack which did not stop until it had surrounded all of Berlin and seized half of Nazi Germany.

Hitler was crushed at Stalingrad by the very Russians who were under a starvation level siege by the Nazis.

Seems that "the size of a dog in a dog fight" is less important than "the size of the fight in the dog".

briann:
THis article isn't accurate.  Its ignoring the fact that Russia's economy is flourishing with the high oil prices, and a few other economic reforms.

Russia's military is just beginning to flex its muscles.  Just you wait and see.

MassuhDGoodName:
I fear that a strong Russia is going to team up with a Superpower Communist China with the expressed intentions of doing us in.

briann:

--- Quote from: MassuhDGoodName on June 02, 2008, 12:06:10 AM ---I fear that a strong Russia is going to team up with a Superpower Communist China with the expressed intentions of doing us in.

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Yes... I'll agree with that worry.

Bruicy Kibbutz:

--- Quote from: MassuhDGoodName on June 02, 2008, 12:06:10 AM ---I fear that a strong Russia is going to team up with a Superpower Communist China with the expressed intentions of doing us in.

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Nah sharing is caring each country can share the wells, just like frontlines fuel of war

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