The United States Navy agrees with you. That boat has their focused attention.
Posted on 10/29/2014 8:33:33 PM PDT by tcrlaf
Yes they can build an advanced attack submarine only 15 years behind schedule. The Russians can build advanced military hardware - but then again so can the Swedes. Their economy is decrepit, they have negative soft power, and despite nukes and some fancy hardware their military lacks any significant force projection capability. Russia's population continues to shrink, its economy is now a rounding error and Russia's continued prominence on the world stage is even more an anachronism than France's.
Amen, Kaker. Let me cry a little bit while you are shoveling dirt onto the coffin.
Speaking of...how's Vlad doing these days? Heard rumors he's not well.
that sub is totally badass.
The Russians can’t break even with current oil prices, so they might as well use their worthless oil to throw a tantrum.
The United States Navy agrees with you. That boat has their focused attention.
One of our family friends was an F-16 pilot in Alaska in the 1980's and he let on that several "training accidents" were not training accidents at all. Seems it wasn't uncommon for shots to be fired and for planes to be shot down. Meaning that while this current thing may look like boys being boys the fact of it is they're facing off with deadly weapons and at least one side (Russia) probably has permission to fire if they think they can get away with it.
0bama single-handedly brought back the Cold War
He’s sick of America’s “hyperpower” (French journos’ coinage) status and is working to ruin us.
We’ll get to see if Putin cuts off the gas to Europe when the freeze hits.
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