re: Russia Unveils New Main Battle Tank, Among Other Things

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Tigeralum2008

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Putin is capable of dancing under the Eifel Tower whenever he wants.

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Well if France is all he wants...

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Don't believe the hype. Russia's military is in serious trouble.

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For every blogger out there writing about the Russian military being nothing more than a cheap copy of the Red Army from 30 years ago, there are an equal number of authorities out there who write that the Russian Army is in far better shape now than it has ever been since the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Putin has watched with alarm how Nato has expanded to Russia's borders, how the US and some of its NATO allies bomb and invade countries without first seeking UN approval (Iraq in 2003, Serbia in 1999), and brazenly participates in regime change (See Undersecretary Nuland and the Ukraine crisis of 2013-2014), and as a result has started to invest heavily in Russia's military and has started to punch back (e.g. Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014-2015).

Clinton and Bush forgot the fundamental reason for NATO, which was to keep the Germans down, the US in, and the Russians out. Expanding NATO to include the Baltic republics along with former Warsaw pact countries did nothing to enhance US National security, it simply expanded the list of countries that we obliged to go to war for in order to defend, without their being able to contribute much of anything to the common defense.

Final thought on Russian air technology

Russia has had some muscular hardware designs over the years. Some effective and some like the dude at the gym who outlifts everyone but would stroke out if he ran a mile.


I randomly thought of this meme yesterday and raffed:

apaches will love em.

Russia is the GOAT terrible, shitty country full of assholes.

Those vehicle markings remind me of the old GI Joe vector logo.

Thank you all for this thread. passed the time at work tonight! Also did some research on my own and learned a few things.

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Europe & the US better pull their heads out of their asses or the nightmare we dreaded in the 80's, a Soviet invasion of central Europe, could be a real threat within the next decade.

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France has said recently that anyone attempting to invade will get the nuke dropped on them. They literally don't give a frick about M.A.D. I'm more worried about those poffers trying to deal with if by themselves.