Hmmmm...
Posted on 09/22/2017 8:05:33 PM PDT by Candor7
I doubt that very much as well.
Considering they supply a good bit of gas and energy to europe.
Someone has to explain the strategic advantage to doing so. It’s a blatant act of war and for what, exactly? And how do they think this will play out in the end?
It’d make more sense for them to invade into the middle east instead of eastern europe.
At this point, what difference does it make?
Solution in such a scenario: We will defend and recover NATO members countries from the Russians in direct proportion to their historical financial commitment to NATO. Oh, you didn’t spend the 2% you were supposed to for the past 30 years, instead you only spent .02%? Too bad, guess 90% of your populace needs to learn Russian.
Also, the methods used to recover the country will be determined by the historically stated preferences of said member nations. Those nations espousing “soft power” over all else will only have ‘soft power’ used to recover them. After all, you wanted us to only use that with others so I’m sure you’ll be fine with us using only that to try to free your people.
Hmmmm...
Isn’t that end of the world show scheduled for tomorrow?
Hunt For Red October then you must read Red Storm Rising. The Sum of All Fears is also a good one as a third book but if you read all three do so in the order above.
If the Ruskies can clean out the Muzzies from Europe, that ain’t such a bad thing.
Vlad has already missed the deadline by two days.
Thanks a lot fellas! Red October first it is, then the others in the appropriate order!
“Who would want to try to rule the French?”
It’s kind of like herding cats. You try to get them to go somewhere and they give you the blank stare of FU. And then look surprised when you get pissed.
rwood
Russia can barely afford to keep its military running.
After seeing the rot in the US Navy I’m not at all sure we could win an offenseive war against Russia. The army’s been hit harder by the PC crap than any other branch.
Talk about your "embarrassment of riches"! </sarcasm>
I, mean, if this was actually going to happen, which I highly doubt, maybe just a quick call from our President:
“Hi, Vlad. Um, don’t lay a finger on Eastern Europe, or you’re all dead. They’ve had enough from you guys over the years. But if you want to just head straight to Western Europe, Britain exempted, eh, whatever. Tired of those guys.”
The Sum of All Fears is a good book, unlike the terrible movie.
My first boss when I got to DC was a very good friend of Clancy. He knew Clancy before he became famous and actually gave him the story idea for Sum of All Fears. My boss also was the reviewer for the chapter that describes the bomb design and he and Clancy worked together to make sure the description would not allow anyone to actually make a working device.
At least someone is serious about combating islam.
BenLurkin: Agreed. Putin is a good bluffer when it comes to serious opposition, and I don’t necessarily mean NATO troops, etc.
The youngin’s at FR don’t seem to know about atomic land mines. Yep, those little goodies who can take out a couple of miles of territory in one explosion, as in right in the middle of an invasion force, or air dropped amongst them, etc.
There used to be A-mines in Germany (I suspect the Fulda Gap had them and in surrounding areas), but since my source has passed away, I can’t guarantee that is where they were.
Land mines are put underground in known or suspected invasion routes, lying like dormant little critters until awoken by an electronic signal, and then, Ka-Boom.
It was a shame that we didn’t use them in Vietnam, just below the DMZ from the Gulf of Tonkin to the Ho Chi Minh Trail routes. A couple of them going off inside So. Vietnamese territory would have wiped out 3 NVA divisions in seconds. Now that is a real moral destroyer.
Yeah, I know we didn’t have the guts to do it. Nor did we take out the port of Haiphong, as an NVA senior military defector told me which would starve his troops in-country. They couldn’t live off the land and if we bombed the hell out of the HCM Trail in a sustained campaign, they would have been cut off from about 90% of their supplies.
Divisions cannot live off the land. Eventually they’ve got to move towards food supplies or starve. And our air power would be waiting for them.
Damned. I wish Westmoreland or Abrams or Cushman or whoever was the Secy of Defense in 1970 was at that meeting we had with these NVA field commanders. Hell, I wish Nixon was there too and I didn’t get to mention that to him in our briefing at the White House because of time constraints.
However, I’m sure it got to key members of his National Security Council, the knowledgeable ones on Vietnam, as well as the Kissinger cowards who prevailed and doomed SE Asia to communist domination and genocide.
Sometimes you just have to sit down and listen to the enemy. You’d be surprised what you might find out.
I’m sure you saw the images of Kim Dung Un standing next to his supposed hydrogen bomb...
What did you think...did it look plausible? unlikely? possibly workable but crude???
They can have it.
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