tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890852736639676808.post2267162759081184851..comments2024-01-13T07:38:36.064-05:00Comments on Target Liberty: The Difference Between Russia and Italy (Even Though They Have the Same Size Economy)Robert Wenzelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14296920597416905488noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890852736639676808.post-24552537520128336792017-01-14T20:55:27.199-05:002017-01-14T20:55:27.199-05:00The US military industrial complex has been pushin...The US military industrial complex has been pushing for a massive and expensive nuclear weapons modernisation program. This item on its own is a likely source of current official Russphobia. There is historical precedent with the Bomber Gap and Missile Gap in the late fifties and early sixties. It's deja vu all over again. Russia has a large nuclear arsenal and needs to be negotiated with. earth that washttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03635503399458271477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890852736639676808.post-12346221924628434882017-01-11T16:48:55.473-05:002017-01-11T16:48:55.473-05:00Then you're just being ODD!
Nukes are irrelev...Then you're just being ODD!<br /><br />Nukes are irrelevant. How does Russia leverage their nukes to push the US around? The nuke threat is last ditch only. It's an empty threat. They will never use them and the US knows it. Doing so is ensured suicide!<br /><br />So warfare in the 21st century is regional, incremental, asymmetric and attritional... i.e. war-by-proxy. The USG is fighting Spencer Fanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18403526865526817137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890852736639676808.post-16505258097503348152017-01-11T16:25:14.660-05:002017-01-11T16:25:14.660-05:00This does not address my point at all that Italy h...This does not address my point at all that Italy has no nukes and Russia has 7.300.Robert Wenzelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14296920597416905488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890852736639676808.post-54568630852197501552017-01-11T14:31:55.927-05:002017-01-11T14:31:55.927-05:00RW, to give some context here... the US spends an ...RW, to give some context here... the US spends an average of $20B per year to maintain its nuclear arsenal. The entire Russian military budget was $70B in 2014.<br /><br />Think about that. Do you believe Russia is going to spend almost 1/3 of its military budget on nukes? And if it does, what's left for proxy wars? Not much.<br /><br />OTH, the US spent $600B or so (2015 est)! And with only Spencer Fanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18403526865526817137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890852736639676808.post-17439139764515675272017-01-11T14:00:57.614-05:002017-01-11T14:00:57.614-05:00RW: Note to the slow.
I'm supposed to resembl...RW: Note to the slow.<br /><br />I'm supposed to resemble that remark? Thanks! ;)<br /><br />RW, Russia's not going to use nukes against the US. Doing so means their own certain destruction. Get a grip, dude.<br /><br />The only context that makes sense in the real world is conventional war... more particularly, proxy wars. Russia can't go toe-to-toe with the US in regional conflicts.Spencer Fanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18403526865526817137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890852736639676808.post-57450089587511139132017-01-11T12:16:15.296-05:002017-01-11T12:16:15.296-05:00Sure, you'll hear this from Trump supporters a...Sure, you'll hear this from Trump supporters and libertarians trying to be reasonable or objective. You won't hear it from U.S. intel community or MSM or McCain or any of the war hawks and neocons or NATO.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com