Posted on 12/21/2019 1:01:27 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
Guess you never have heard of Kaliningrad Oblast...
Those dummies shouldn’t be spending money on a carrier anyway...it is a status symbol to them and nothing more. What a piece of crap.
Thanks for the ping, Chode, and...Merry Christmas!
and Merry Christmas to you my brother!
a vanity project for sure...
Concur.
Russia and the United States are natural allies. And we used to be allied until the Bolsheviks came along.
“” “” In WWII Russia did not even engage in war with Japan even though Japan was an AXIS power, because they knew they would be wiped out.”” “”
ROLFMAO!
“” “” The Baltic fleets face ice problems half the year and the same problem of being far too removed from the open seas without having to pass through enemy waters.
This is one reason why Russia wants Crimea, but what they would really like is to have Estonia and other Baltic States back (not likely to happen).”” “”
How Estonia is solving an ice and remoteness problems?
The economic value of Baltic countries for USSR were merchant ports. It continued after their independence before Russia developed own ports in the Baltic to save on transit fees.
“In WWII Russia did not even engage in war with Japan even though Japan was an AXIS power, because they knew they would be wiped out.”
Not really the case. In 1939 General Zukov and the Red Army administered a first class ass whipping to the Japanese Army at Khalkhan Gol. This defeat convinced the Japanese that their plans for the conquest of Eastern Siberia were DOA. To protect their Northern flank the Japanese signed a truce and non aggression pack with the Soviets. When the Japanese attacked the Americans, Brits, French and Dutch in the South Western Pacific area, the Soviets knew that the Japanese would not move against their forces in the far East. Stalin felt comfortable pulling several hundred thousand troops from Siberia and using them to launch a counter attack against the Germans outside of Moscow in 1941. The Japanese strictly followed the terms of their treaty with the Soviets, as did the Soviets, until August 1945. The Soviets unleashed almost a million men and 2,000 tanks against the Japanese, completely crushing them in the final weeks of WWII.
Great line.
During the Cold War each carrier was said to have 100 nukes on board...
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