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I see a successor scenario . the major issue with can Macho Muscovy be ruled by 2 czars ...Putin will chose one of his henchmen - that is, someone upon which he has his "claws".
I mean by that he controls the person. He will do this because he has disturbed (polite word) far too many who would like to get even with him.
His daughter has bought a very nice place (vineyard and all) in Bordeaux. I'm sure "daddy" funded the purchase. He could always go there - he has an ambivalent attitude towards France, and they to him.
Besides, the weather is so much nicer in southern-France than Moscow.
We shall see ...
Why do you keep spamming the word "horde" when speaking of RUSSIANS?
It is a stupid thing to do since the RUSSIANS defeated the Horde.
Some think that they actually "won the war".
Hitler had come close to Moscow (8 to 10 miles) and would have taken it had the Russians not stopped him. Its relevance to the Russians is profound and Hitler's threat of taking it produced the right effect in the Russian army. They literally changed the war to their advantage. (Of course the Russian Army death-rate was the largest of WW2 - they paid dearly in lives for their part of the victory.)
Let's not forget the Russians took Berlin and was the reason why Hitler committed suicide - Stalin's troops were just outside of Berlin. I think - but don't really know - that both Eisenhower and Churchill did not expect the Russians to rush into Berlin. But the German divisions fighting them had had "enough".
As history supposedly says it happened ...
I see a successor scenario . the major issue with can Macho Muscovy be ruled by 2 czars ...
I don't think that they will feel safe in France
"When a member of a Chechen clan is killed, even in a street brawl the vendetta can pass through the generations, obliging the men on both sides ..."
I see a successor scenario . the major issue with can Macho Muscovy be ruled by 2 czars ...
I don't think that they will feel safe in France
"When a member of a Chechen clan is killed, even in a street brawl the vendetta can pass through the generations, obliging the men on both sides ..."
So the mi-17 being a utility helicopter similar to a blackhawk in utility and a chinook in lift capability but not much actually offensive use is going to show them how?delivering to Ukraine mi-17/etc. is a strong signal to Moscow horde , the LO say to the oriental barbaric hordemen if you attack again, you are gonna die ....
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BREAKING: Swedish Minister is prepared to send the Swedish military to Ukraine, as Moscow is preparing for war. Poland "hybrid war on behalf of Moscow
BREAKING: Swedish Minister is prepared to send the Swedish military to Ukraine, as Moscow is preparing at the border. "hybrid war on behalf of the Kremlin." Warsaw has dispatched 12,000 troops to police the border. Minister of Defense Peter Hultqvist (S) is prepared to send the Swedish military...debatepolitics.com
I actually did not know american forces used them, I know we bought them for afghan forces because the blackhawk was struggling with lift capacity in the high heat of the afghan mountains and the mi-8 and mi-17 helicopters were much more tolerant to such conditions.I looked it up and it looks like our forces in Afghanitstan did use Mi-17s in limited scale.
agreed , but today the situation is different. do you agree ?
Lebanon is an eastern Mediterranean country that is composed of mostly Muslims and Christians. The main two religions are Islam with 61.1% of the citizens (Sunni, Shia, and a small number of Alawites and Ismailis) and Christianity with 33.7% of the citizens (the Maronite Church, the Greek Orthodox Church, the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, Protestantism, the Armenian Apostolic Church). The Druze are about 5.2% of the citizens
"When a member of a Chechen clan is killed, even in a street brawl the vendetta can pass through the generations, obliging the men on both sides ..."
And Bush gave Russia South Ossetia and Trump gave Russia a free hand in Syria. Not standing up to Russia is bi-partisan.
MARVELOUSLY MIRACULOUS
Standing up to Russia (ie Putin) is child's play. Even if they started a war, they would never finish it - they just do not have the economic ability to do so. (Methinks.)
The reason Europe does not impose upon Russia is because of its predominant supply of oil, which is sent by a new undersea pipeline (see here). And Putin knows how to squeeze the you-know-whats of a country dependent upon its oil - and Russia needs badly the oil export-income.
Russia is in the pits economically. See its economic spin downwards here:
And it is difficult to see the Russian economy doing anything marvelously-miraculous to get back up to its GDP-level of the decade's beginning. Those were the "good ole days" and they are long gone.
It will take a bunch-of-miracles to get back to those GDP-levels - and its present dictator is no glowing economic-genius.
That is for sure ...
Great Post ! +1 from me: "its present dictator is no glowing economic-genius."
November 9, 1989: The Berlin Wall—that separated communist East Berlin from democratic West Berlin for nearly 30 years—falls. The years 1989-90 see the collapse of communist regimes in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, Benin, Mozambique, Nicaragua and Yemen.
• December 25, 1991: With the resignation of Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union is dissolved. New Russian President Boris Yeltsin bans the Communist Party. Communism soon ends in Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Congo, Kenya, Yugoslavia and other nations. China, Cuba, Laos, Vietnam remain under communist rule. North Korea remains nominally communist, although the North Korean government doesn't call itself communist.
The 'brilliant deputy'
Valentin Yumashev played a key role in Vladimir Putin becoming president of Russia. The former journalist turned Kremlin official rarely gives interviews, but he agreed to meet me and tell his story.
Mr Yumashev was one of Boris Yeltsin's most trusted aides - he went on to marry Mr Yeltsin's daughter, Tatyana. As Mr Yeltsin's chief of staff, in 1997 he gave Mr Putin his first job in the Kremlin.
A. Golts : "Moscow can bring in (near border) Ukraine 100 000 solders just in 2 -4 days. " Putin´s horde will attack, ´cos they don't have much choice (economy , demography, etc.) , much like Japan in 1941....
This puts the border tension between Belarus and Poland in a new light. A distraction, maybe? The author is very correctly pronouncing 'Kyiv'
"WHO rules EAST EUROPE commands the Heartland Who rules the heartland commands the World Island Who rule the world island commands the WORLD"
very good post , 2 thingsIn no time in history has this above occurred. In fact, when he wanted to subdue the eastern-countries, Napoleon did not have the slightest problem fighting his way to Moscow.
It was in Moscow that he made his great-mistake. The Russians had burnt down Moscow rather than hand it over to him on a platter. He had no way of feeding the massive Army he had brought with him and it was winter when he arrived.
Upon returning to France, he was prey to the British who exiled him to Elba where he died. Brilliant military-men keep winning battles until they lose them. Then they retire.
It's time for Putin to retire and enjoy his ill-got billions. But like others of past history, he wont. So, they will have to find some other way to "retire him" ...
PS: He really likes France and French culture. He'd be safer retiring to the vineyard that he helped his daughter buy than remaining in Russia - where he has made a great many enemies ...
very good post , 2 things
1) Muscovite army collapsed as well , Muscovy was simply too poor and It couldn´t feed a big army, I ´d recommend you to read Muscovite historian Evgeny Ponasenkov
2) dont forget that Napoleon liberated Muscovite slaves (90%) of population
3) backward , very poor Muscovy was literally a colony of Germanic people in 19c. (mostly French speaking )
my present to you
whats about "Javelin anti-tank and anti-armor missiles"?
given that other European countries that also employed guillotines stopped doing so in the 19th century.
Not exactly "high tech" there. A 25 year old system, and nothing really special or game changing.
And it may be called an "anti-tank weapon", in reality it would be almost useless against any tanks in the Russian military it might face. Might as well give them some LAW rockets.
One small "local" atomic-bomb upon an entire division of tanks and they all become useless in a split-second.
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