Nukes make all of this irrelevant
Russia isn’t going to invade Europe.
Russia isn’t going to attack the US.
Russia is probably more Christian than we are. They would probably be a better ally to us than most of the EU, if we would let them.
The saying goes: don’t put all your arrows in one quiver. The whole navy thing could be a ruse.
I told them they should have bought the Extended Warranty, but did they listen?
China can pick it up cheap on Craig’s List...they are already driving around another fixer-upper they got from the Russkies...
Historically Russia has been a land power. She has not really needed a blue water capable navy.
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Russia has four main strategic assets: a substantial nuclear arsenal that could devastate the United States virtually without warning; vast natural resources, especially of strategic metals and oil and gas; a large export arms industry that often equips the world’s bad guys; and membership on and veto power over UN Security Council action. In sum, Russia is capable of being a major aggravation to the United States and her allies — and frequently is.
Maybe we can buy it and rename it the USS Pelosi?
Oh, you make Putin mad. You not like Putin mad.
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Pitiful, inn't it?
What is the total number of launches and landings on that ship’s flight deck? I’m guessing not many.
I think it’s pertinent to see Russia as a primarily landlocked nation.
Any significant coastline it has is on the Pacific adjacent to Japan which has a significant navy fleet. Eastern Russia has never been highly populated or protected because there just isn’t much there worthy of an invasion. 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.
Russia has had small fleets in the Black Sea - but getting through the Bosporus is always a problem. 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).
That is why the Russian Military has always been largely based on tanks and infantry - they had some of the best tanks in WWII and enough men to keep calling up new recruits directly to the front consistently throughout the war despite huge losses.
I’m all for starting rumors to take over the LSM....I HEARD from a reliable but anonymous source who heard it from a patron in a Russian bar that Trump is going to let Putin borrow some of our aircraft carriers. If Putin doesn’t accept that offer, Trump will promise to pay for the building of new ones.
They are pouring money into their arctic naval forces with new nuclear heavy and medium icebreakers coming on line almost monthly, plus their floating nuclear power station ship Akademik Lomonosov is now headed to the arctic.