CDZ War with Russia?

[Wyatt earp]

Myth of Russian Power | Huffington Post

Did you even read this ridiculous article?

"Yet this narrative ignores two things. The first one is that the US and NATO did not muscle into Russia’s former satellites, but rather they were begged by those countries to expand to include them. The Baltics, Poland and the Vishegrad countries, Romania, Bulgaria and the rest of the Slavic Balkans were not stolen by the West. They took the first opportunity to flee the Russian yoke that history afforded them. Indeed, the Lithuanians and, most famously the Hungarians, tried to move out of Russia’s “natural sphere of interest” long before, with tragic consequences. Nor has NATO more recently tried to muscle into Georgia or Ukraine. Once again, it was peoples that have had enough of Russian domination that tried to choose a different path.

And the second is that the only thing that makes Russia a power is the fact that it has the largest nuclear arsenal in the world. Were it not for this arsenal, any one of the UK, France or Germany could check Russian military adventurism on their own. To say nothing of the US or China. And indeed, Russia needs to throw its military weight around because it does not have much else going for it. The old ideological underpinning of empire, Communism, is gone, replaced instead with crude ethnocentric revanchiste nationalism. And the former industrial and scientific might of the Soviet colossus has been reduced to rubble, replaced by a narrow natural resource-driven economy, controlled by a restricted clique of the President’s friends, while independent entrepreneurialism is either quashed through local political corruption, or absorbed into the black economy."

The fact that satellite countries abandoned the former Soviet Union does not make Russia any less of a military power, and its updated nuclear arsenal backs that up.

Other than their nuclear arsenal their conventional military is no match for anyone in the west, let alone the US. Russia is no threat.

Huh? Again



US Commander Warns NATO Couldn't Repel Russian Baltic Invasion | Military.com



Russia could take over the Baltic states faster than we would be able to defend them," Hodges was quoted as saying in a German-language article by news weekly Die Zeit.

The general said he agreed with an assessment by military analysts who claimed that Russian forces could conquer the capitals of Baltic states Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia within 36 to 60 hours.

 

[Wyatt earp]

Myth of Russian Power | Huffington Post

Did you even read this ridiculous article?

"Yet this narrative ignores two things. The first one is that the US and NATO did not muscle into Russia’s former satellites, but rather they were begged by those countries to expand to include them. The Baltics, Poland and the Vishegrad countries, Romania, Bulgaria and the rest of the Slavic Balkans were not stolen by the West. They took the first opportunity to flee the Russian yoke that history afforded them. Indeed, the Lithuanians and, most famously the Hungarians, tried to move out of Russia’s “natural sphere of interest” long before, with tragic consequences. Nor has NATO more recently tried to muscle into Georgia or Ukraine. Once again, it was peoples that have had enough of Russian domination that tried to choose a different path.

And the second is that the only thing that makes Russia a power is the fact that it has the largest nuclear arsenal in the world. Were it not for this arsenal, any one of the UK, France or Germany could check Russian military adventurism on their own. To say nothing of the US or China. And indeed, Russia needs to throw its military weight around because it does not have much else going for it. The old ideological underpinning of empire, Communism, is gone, replaced instead with crude ethnocentric revanchiste nationalism. And the former industrial and scientific might of the Soviet colossus has been reduced to rubble, replaced by a narrow natural resource-driven economy, controlled by a restricted clique of the President’s friends, while independent entrepreneurialism is either quashed through local political corruption, or absorbed into the black economy."

The fact that satellite countries abandoned the former Soviet Union does not make Russia any less of a military power, and its updated nuclear arsenal backs that up.

Other than their nuclear arsenal their conventional military is no match for anyone in the west, let alone the US. Russia is no threat.

Huh? Again



US Commander Warns NATO Couldn't Repel Russian Baltic Invasion | Military.com



Russia could take over the Baltic states faster than we would be able to defend them," Hodges was quoted as saying in a German-language article by news weekly Die Zeit.

The general said he agreed with an assessment by military analysts who claimed that Russian forces could conquer the capitals of Baltic states Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia within 36 to 60 hours.

The US Army Doesn't Seem Real Sure It Could Stop a Russian Invasion of Europe | VICE News

 

[GaryDog]

Active duty is not the same as "combat pay." And even combat doesn't mean we're at war.

Lots of guys got combat pay in Vietnam whether or not they were combat soldiers, and ........ there was no 'war' declared anyway.

That incursion had to be authorized by legislation. For the purposes of the times, it was a war.

 

[GLASNOST]

Active duty is not the same as "combat pay." And even combat doesn't mean we're at war.

Lots of guys got combat pay in Vietnam whether or not they were combat soldiers, and ........ there was no 'war' declared anyway.

That incursion had to be authorized by legislation. For the purposes of the times, it was a war.

That's not the point at all. The military called it a war, the government called it a conflict ..... and never declared war. I was supporting your notion of the difference between 'combat pay' and 'war'. This is what makes the US a rogue leadership at any given time. War is war. We can agree on that. I am a Vietnam 'War' Vet ('Conflict' Vet?) but Americans are being told that the US has never lost a war because 'war' was never declared in Vietnam. It smells bad.