william the wie
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If you go to RT, RC World and Stratfor you will get a long list of relatively high tech weapons Russia is rolling out this spring. What is not included in those analyses is:
The US defense R&D budget has been minimal for a while.
China is having economic problems that will make it difficult for it continue to compete with either Russia or the US in the world arms bazaar. Chinese retirement age is 55 for women and 60 for men thus creating huge fiscal drag to cite just one factor and there are many factors working against further Chinese growth.
The collapse of oil prices began in July of last year and was expected for years prior to that.
Russia needs a new shtick to support it's economy now that oil is likely to collapse for the foreseeable future. It looks like the primary fallback position is selling arms.
As to the above I am willing to debate those points in other threads but what I am wondering about is how quickly will Russia be seen as a threat to US security and US military and industrial threat and start affecting US election results?
The US defense R&D budget has been minimal for a while.
China is having economic problems that will make it difficult for it continue to compete with either Russia or the US in the world arms bazaar. Chinese retirement age is 55 for women and 60 for men thus creating huge fiscal drag to cite just one factor and there are many factors working against further Chinese growth.
The collapse of oil prices began in July of last year and was expected for years prior to that.
Russia needs a new shtick to support it's economy now that oil is likely to collapse for the foreseeable future. It looks like the primary fallback position is selling arms.
As to the above I am willing to debate those points in other threads but what I am wondering about is how quickly will Russia be seen as a threat to US security and US military and industrial threat and start affecting US election results?