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Re: starlight (IRAN)

By: Zimbler0 in CONSTITUTION | Recommend this post (0)
Wed, 12 Dec 18 1:49 AM | 278 view(s)
Boardmark this board | Constitutional Corner 		Msg. 21904 of 21975
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SL > Right now, the Russians could cream us, they are so far ahead.


Once again I must disagree.
Low oil prices set back the Kremlins militaristic ambitions. (From reading articles on Strategy page.)

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Assessing Russia’s Reorganized and Rearmed Military

http://carnegieendowment.org/2017/05/03/assessing-russia-s-reorganized-and-rearmed-military-pub-69853

Recent Western assessments of Russia’s renewed military power have led to a wide range of differing conclusions and, taken together, provide a mixed and confusing picture of the scale and nature of the threat. Impressive capabilities demonstrated in Ukraine and Syria have given rise to concern that Western armed forces may find it difficult to cope with an operating environment dominated by new Russian weapons systems for which they have neglected to adopt countermeasures. But at the same time, a number of veteran scholars of Russian military affairs argue that the power of the current Russian military is commonly overestimated, suggesting that it is hostage to many problems inherited from its traumatic post-Soviet degeneration, critically challenged by overstretch, technologically backward, or all three.

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What's the matter with Russia's rockets?
December 2, 2016

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/2016/20161201-whats-the-matter-russias-rockets.html

Yesterday evening in Kazakhstan, a Russian Soyuz rocket blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, carrying a cargo-laden Progress spacecraft toward the International Space Station.

For the first six-and-a-half minutes of flight, everything appeared to be going well. But during the third stage engine burn, Russian flight controllers inexplicably lost contact. For reasons yet unknown, the engine apparently cut out, and the Progress never made it to orbit. It reentered Earth's atmosphere over southern Siberia, and broke apart.

By my calculations—which are outlined at the end of this article—this marks the fifteenth failure of a Russian rocket in 6 years. Of those, all but two were related to upper stages. Seven were tied to the Proton's Briz-M, while Soyuz stages have been implicated five times. Three Soyuz failures involved the rocket's native third stage, and the other two were related to the Fregat.

The current version of the Proton has been around since 2001, and it's often associated with the word "workhorse." Soyuz dates back to the dawn of the space age, when an ancestor of the stalwart launcher sent Sputnik into space in 1957. Both rockets have evolved, but in terms of recent history, Russia's core launch fleet has remained relatively unchanged.

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Re: starlight (IRAN)
By: starlight in CONSTITUTION
Tue, 11 Dec 18 9:06 AM 		Msg. 21889 of 21975

"Ohhhh, but we are in an arms race. WHY? You don't need that many nuclear bombs to wipe out the world.
And do we want to turn the Middle East into glass anyway?"

Peace through strength, but actually using nukes should be avoided, if possible, imho. Right now, the Russians could cream us, they are so far ahead. Space is very important.

There's an arms race because whoever supplies the arms, talking planes and such) has access to the country and does training and helps protect them. So whomever supplies the arms indirectly controls the oil.

Russia has been in a major push to control O&G, world wide. That gives them political leverage or even control over their customers. And, of course the Hildabeast gave a good chunk of our Uranium to them as well. The commies want to control energy to the West. They have cut it off to customers like Ukraine for political leverage already.

I'm not exactly sure where to place China in this picture, but I'm thinking Russia is becoming a proxy agent of China's. China likely have some degree of control over Russia because they fund them. China tries to lock in oil supply and said they want to take over their hemisphere, but are also making inroads in ours. They finance the Russians, whose economy is failing. So I would think they have leverage and are in cahoots. China's currently building infrastructure for some of their oil supplier nations and have people on the ground. I think they get them in debt and then seek to take ownership of their assets. This is still playing out, but it doesn't look good for countries doing business with China, imo.


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