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Russia launches biggest war games since Cold War
BBC ^ | 11 September 2018

Posted on 09/11/2018 2:12:59 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

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To: Magnum44

Not my prophecy.


21 posted on 09/11/2018 9:07:08 AM PDT by TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed (Yahuah Yahusha)
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To: TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed
This is the start of WW3.

Not my prophecy.

Sure sounds like a prophecy

22 posted on 09/11/2018 9:42:14 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: Magnum44

Not mine. Just passing it along.


23 posted on 09/11/2018 9:43:17 AM PDT by TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed (Yahuah Yahusha)
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To: TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed
Not mine. Just passing it along.

Ahhh. So next time why don't you attribute and give credit for your statement, since you now say its not your own.

24 posted on 09/11/2018 9:46:01 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: Magnum44

You might want to visit Byron Searle’s website.

https://byronsearle.blogspot.com/

I suggest starting at the beginning of his August articles. It will give you a better understanding if you read some of his work leading up to what he has written recently.

Blessings to you and your loved ones,

Dan :-)


25 posted on 09/11/2018 10:00:21 AM PDT by TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed (Yahuah Yahusha)
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To: TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed

No thanks, Don’t need any blog primping. If you cant put it into your own words, then it must not be very important.


26 posted on 09/11/2018 10:04:06 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: Magnum44

I forgive you.

You do not know what you are doing.


27 posted on 09/11/2018 10:15:34 AM PDT by TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed (Yahuah Yahusha)
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To: Rapscallion
Russia is training to come at America. They are not friends. Remember that.

I know many Russians. They are wonderfully friendly people. The hostility between America and Russia is manufactured and artificial. Don’t accept it.

28 posted on 09/11/2018 10:27:46 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed
Nut case. I will be sure to ask directions from you when I get worried I might fall of the planet...


29 posted on 09/11/2018 10:50:25 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: dennisw
The Russians spend lots less than us but use their defense money more wisely. If Putin is going to exert law and order on spending anywhere it is in the Russian military.

Has Putin's gov't paid the salaries of his armed services personnel?

30 posted on 09/11/2018 11:16:08 AM PDT by CDB
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Russia and the ChiComs have been conducting annual war games since 2005.

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How Russia arms America's southern neighbors

Ioan Grillo
May 9, 2014

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- Russia's push into Ukraine has put many on edge. But less known is that Russia is also strengthening its military links south of the Rio Grande and re-establishing itself as a power in the region.

Vladimir Putin has been strengthening military links here, and Russia is now the largest arms dealer to governments in Latin America, surpassing the United States.

Russia has even floated the possibility of building new military bases in Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, and putting its warships permanently in the Caribbean.

In the midst of the Ukraine crisis, Russia's top diplomat Sergei Lavrov recently visited Cuba, Peru, Chile, and Nicaragua, where he announced that Russia would also pour money into the new Central American canal project. ..."

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/140508/russian-arms-military-trade-latin-america
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Russia Boosts Arms, Training for Leftist Latin Militaries

Moscow defense minister inks deals with Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua for joint exercises

BY: Bill Gertz
February 20, 2015

Russia agreed to provide military training for three leftist regimes in Latin America and increase military visits and exercises following a visit last week to the region by Moscow's Defense Minister Sergei Shoygu, Pentagon officials said.

Shoygu met with defense and military leaders in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua and signed several agreements on warship visits and military training during the visit, which ran from Feb. 11 to 14. It is not clear whether any new arms deals were completed during the visit.

Defense officials said the Russian leader is seeking bases in the region for strategic bomber flights that Shoygu recently promised would include flights over the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean.

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/russia-boosts-arms-training-for-leftist-latin-militaries/

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KGB/FSB Putin very much wants a 'unified Korea'...under communist NK rule

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Russia and North Korea declare 2015 a ‘year of friendship’

“The biggest cause for concern is the growing military alliance between Russia and North Korea, with the two regimes recently announcing plans to conduct a series of joint army, navy and air force exercises this year.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/11463265/Russia-and-North-Korea-declare-2015-a-year-of-friendship.html

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Russia steps up North Korea support to constrain US

May 17, 2017

“Despite efforts by the United Nations to impose isolating sanctions on North Korea in response to the country’s continued development of nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles, trade between Russia and North Korea soared more than 85 percent in the first four months of the year.”

http://www.dw.com/en/russia-steps-up-north-korea-support-to-constrain-us/a-38867861

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Sept 5, 2017

North Korea nuclear crisis: Putin calls sanctions useless

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said pursuing further sanctions against North Korea is “useless”, saying “they’d rather eat grass than give up their nuclear programme”.

The US said on Monday it would table a new UN resolution on tougher sanctions in the wake of the latest test of a nuclear bomb by the North on Sunday.

Mr Putin also said that the ramping up of “military hysteria” could lead to global catastrophe.

He said diplomacy was the only answer.

China, the North’s main ally, has also called for a return to negotiations. ...”

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41158281

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From the Sino-Russian Joint Statement of April 23, 1997:
"The two sides [China and Russia] shall, in the spirit of partnership, strive to promote the multipolarization of the world and the establishment of a new international order."

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/HI29Ag01.html
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"Joint war games are a logical outcome of the Sino-Russian Friendship and Cooperation Treaty signed in 2001, and reflect the shared worldview and growing economic ties between the two Eastern Hemisphere giants."

http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2005/09/war-games-russia-china-grow-alliance

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Aug 2015

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31 posted on 09/11/2018 11:37:44 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: Drew68; Rapscallion
I know many Russians. They are wonderfully friendly people.

Again spare me. It is Putin holding his people and country back with all this nonsense. There are many wonderful and friendly Chinese people too. Even in Soviet times average Russians were hospitable. Doesn't change the hostile nature of the regime which they themselves are victim to and often powerless to challenge.

32 posted on 09/11/2018 11:39:27 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
JULY 2017...

Trump, in Warsaw Speech, Criticizes Russia’s ‘Destabilizing’ Role in Ukraine, Syria

The president also reaffirmed his commitment to NATO’s mutual-defense pact

Jul 6, 2017

President Trump called Russia a “destabilizing” influence in Europe and the Middle East, and urged it to “join the community of responsible nations,” in his strongest remarks yet against the regime of Vladimir Putin, whom he is scheduled to meet Friday in Hamburg for the first time.

His remarks in Warsaw’s Krasinski Square, which marks the 1944 Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, came after the U.S. agreed to sell Patriot missiles to Poland. The president also used the opportunity to reiterate the NATO commitment to mutual defense, a declaration he did not make during the NATO summit in May, prompting consternation among U.S. allies wary of Russia’s ambitions.

“To those who would criticize our tough stance, I would point out that the United States has demonstrated—not merely with its words but with its actions—that we stand firmly behind Article 5, the mutual-defense commitment,” Trump said Thursday. “Words are easy, but actions are what matters. And for its own protection, Europe, and you know this, everybody knows this, everybody has to know this, Europe must do more.”

Trump has repeatedly said NATO members must spend more on defense—a position in line with past U.S. administrations. But he has been criticized because he appeared to suggest U.S. commitment to mutual defense was predicated on its allies’ defense spending. ...”

https://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2017/07/trump-russia/532761/

33 posted on 09/11/2018 11:46:08 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Again spare me.

Sorry. Nope. Not buying the BS that Russia is some evil enemy that I need to lose sleep over. Not losing sleep over Putin either. I’d take Putin over practically all the leaders in Western Europe.

34 posted on 09/11/2018 2:17:28 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Drew68

If America is over and you hate the West so much, then why stay? There is plenty of space for you in Russia.


35 posted on 09/11/2018 2:29:20 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
If America is over and you hate the West so much, then why stay?

WTF are you babbling about?

36 posted on 09/11/2018 2:31:16 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Buckeye McFrog

[Kind of a waste as we have absolutely NO INTENTIONS WHATSOEVER of EVER invading Russia.

But whatever.]


Russia’s and China’s best-equipped forces are in Northeast Asia. They are buddy-buddy only for as long as China does not make a move on Russian territory. But it will eventually happen. We will probably end up giving Russia a hand, even if Putin is still in power, and it will be way closer than it was in The Bear and the Dragon. Because when Clancy wrote his book, the US economy was 8x the size of the Chinese number. The US economy is now only 60% larger, and China’s $200b defense expenditures are probably higher than the US number when we account for salary differences, Chinese pay being 1/7 the US number. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_past_and_projected_GDP_(nominal)#IMF_estimates_between_2010_and_2019


37 posted on 09/11/2018 5:02:54 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (They can have my pitbull when they pry his cold dead jaws off my ass.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
... we have absolutely NO INTENTIONS WHATSOEVER of EVER invading Russia; again.

--Napolean

38 posted on 09/11/2018 7:44:12 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Drew68
I know many Russians. They are wonderfully friendly people.

What about the others, stupid? The ones you don't know.

Do you see how illogical you are?

39 posted on 09/12/2018 1:21:46 PM PDT by Rapscallion (Iran must get American justice...soon.)
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