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Russia creates two brigades of Arctic troops
Reuters ^
| Fri Jul 1, 2011 5:17pm BST
| Thomas Grove
Posted on 07/01/2011 7:43:10 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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If only the United States had some large untapped Arctic oil reserves ...
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posted on
07/01/2011 7:43:12 PM PDT
by
Pan_Yan
To: Pan_Yan
Good strategy on the part of the Russians? Somebody should tell them to net search “shale gas”; maybe they’d save the cost of a few brigades worth of troops.
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posted on
07/01/2011 7:50:40 PM PDT
by
MSF BU
(YR'S Please Support our troops: JOIN THEM!)
To: Pan_Yan
Getting ready for the coming ice age?
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posted on
07/01/2011 7:52:39 PM PDT
by
doc1019
(You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.)
To: Pan_Yan
Much like the plot of this NBC miniseries in 1982, except the Russkies came to Alaska. An "allstar" cast including David Soul, Cathy Lee Crosby and Rock Hudson as the president.
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posted on
07/01/2011 7:55:45 PM PDT
by
buccaneer81
(ECOMCON)
To: Pan_Yan
Little known fact: In the former Soviet Union, the orders, “Quick, March!” and, “Double Time, March!” were prohibited officers and non-coms as being too dangerous to the men’s frozen wedding tackle.
Fact.
To: buccaneer81
I remember that mini-series. David Soul’s character apparently had secret orders releasing him from grooming standards. Looked more like a hippie with that mop.
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posted on
07/01/2011 8:44:02 PM PDT
by
Ax
To: buccaneer81
I still have this on VCR. Sad.
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posted on
07/01/2011 8:45:30 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(On a long enough timeline the inflation rate for all fiat currencies approaches infinity.)
To: Pan_Yan
Not long ago a Russian sub put a Russian flag on the sea floor below the north pole claiming it as their territory. This makes sense given the oil that is probably there.
To: Pan_Yan
"If only the United States had some large untapped Arctic oil reserves ..."
The Arctic belongs to Canada. Canada has stated its intention of defending and keeping it through PM Harper, and we will join Canada in that effort.
Anyone who doesn't realize by now that the world is already fighting over oil will be surprised in the near future. Due to waves of propaganda from globalist trade interests, many are distracted from the fact that China, India and many other countries will continue to increase consumption of oil.
As for Russia, she can't even refine the oil that can be harvested there, yet. Russia is only wanting to keep Arctic oil from other countries and start another fight (with help from her SCO partners, including China, of course).
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posted on
07/01/2011 8:59:23 PM PDT
by
familyop
(Rome was burned in a day--twice.)
To: familyop
...and we will join Canada in that effort.Uh... ´Better check with barry first.
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posted on
07/01/2011 9:05:45 PM PDT
by
onedoug
(If)
To: Ax
Kind of like Alan Alda in "MASH." That hair in civilian life in 1952 would have gotten him a beating, never mind in the US Army.
To: onedoug
"Uh... ´Better check with barry first."
Duh, checked. Barry already has us at war for oil for the Euro-peons. The currency, trade and oil wars are going to be fun.
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posted on
07/01/2011 9:12:27 PM PDT
by
familyop
(cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-' 96)
To: Pan_Yan
Didn’t the Rooskis claim all the oil in the Artic about a year ago?
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posted on
07/02/2011 12:19:54 AM PDT
by
WKUHilltopper
(And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
To: buccaneer81
I remember that mini-series as an 80s lad.
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posted on
07/02/2011 4:45:10 AM PDT
by
wally_bert
(It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
To: wally_bert
Too bad we don’t have a Putin here. Yeah, Putin is tough, say what you will, but he loves his country and he has a lot of country to defend. He knows the USA has no intention of invading Russia, we aren’t his problem, his problems are on his vast borders. His priority is getting Russia to be a major power again. There is definitely a storm brewing on our planet, and a major conflict (WW III) can happen anywhere. He knows this, and knows Russia has a wealth of natural resources. He also knows if anything ever happens Russia will probably become involved one way or another. Those missiles are his finger shaking at the world powers implying, lay of mother Russia.
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posted on
07/02/2011 7:42:36 AM PDT
by
Bringbackthedraft
(The storm clouds of war are on the horizon, 1939 is again approaching us.)
To: MSF BU
The two Brigades of troops are to reclaim the vast untapped oil reserves, of Alaska. Pretty obvious, there is nobody to defend from. It is also why they need to finish development of the nuclear missile.
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posted on
07/03/2011 8:23:07 AM PDT
by
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
To: American in Israel
Eh, they’ll be invading at just a time when advances in shale fracturing render it significantly less valuable. Applications of ‘fracking’ may even open up shale oil reserves and if that happens the US (and Israel among others) will become significant oil players again.
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posted on
07/03/2011 1:50:51 PM PDT
by
MSF BU
(YR'S Please Support our troops: JOIN THEM!)
To: Bringbackthedraft
Russia’s biggest problem is south of Siberia. You think we have problems with Mexico?
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posted on
07/03/2011 1:52:37 PM PDT
by
MSF BU
(YR'S Please Support our troops: JOIN THEM!)
To: Bringbackthedraft
His priority is getting Russia to be a major power again. Can't happen until the Russian birth rate goes up.
To: MSF BU
Eh, theyll be invading at just a time when advances in shale fracturing render it significantly less valuable.Eh, I suspect that Russia and China will not stop with Alaska, the advances in shale fracturing render the mainland significantly more valuable than before.
That is the nuclear missile part of the news article.
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posted on
07/03/2011 6:18:45 PM PDT
by
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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