Putins rising power

[Kangy]

god willing, japan will inade china again, and in WWIII, gemany will invade the middle east

You'll need all the divine power you can get for that one.

:thumbs:

 

[kirovman]

http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaileditorial.asp?fileid=20041216.F01&irec=3

Very scary stuff. Putin could be a major threat to the world in a few years. My theory: Back before 2001, Putin warned the United States that Iraq was planning a terrorist attack against america. When 911 came, it influnced us more to focus on Saddam. Putin played it smart and decided to stay out of the war. By doing this he gained support from anti-war countries but he still had the support of America for the information. Now, the men that America sent to Iraq that were stationed in foreign countries were mostly from Asia. The number of men there is now reduced. With Putin gaining more and more power everyday, coming close to pure power, he could pose a serious threat to Asia. As you probably know Russia and China have scheduled war games. Imagine what would happen: Two powerful countires both with a supply of nuclear weapons and little U.S. support in Asia.

Putin's a smart guy. He will do everything in Russia's interests, and currently Russia's interests are not in threatening world peace. I'm not sure if he is genuinely anti-war, but i am not sure whether the current German and French leaders are antiwar either.
Being a politican takes a double personality, your PR personality and your real one.
Putin is smart, and he has a good PR personality.
His country is developing but it is nowhere near the threat posed by the soviet union. I suggest forget Russia as a threat. They pretty much want to be friends with the world. Same like every country. If you have no relations, you will soon be isolated and collapse. Every country looks out in it's own interests.
Russia is history in terms of superpower status. Maybe in the future it will rise again, but that will be long after the US has fallen to a lesser position. Russia will sooner be the west's ally than it's enemy.

No, I see Russia conflicting with China before Russia will conflict with the US again. Russia is very scared to have a rapidly developing and potentially expansionist neighbour. There are a lot of Chinese people in east russia, so I'm sure China would have no trouble claiming Siberia and saying "yeah it always belonged to us" just like with Tibet and Xinjiang. Especially with all that Oil and gold potential in Siberia. Give that another 50 years at least though.

Grrr, I just forgot how much I hate writing political articles(or any other article for that matter). It requires me to be so meticulous.

 

[Razor]

Russia is in no fit state to go to war with flipping Lapland, let alone anyone else. There flagship is falling to pieces, there soldiers haven't been paid in years and are slowly wandering off with as many supplies as they can carry, the warning radars are lying in a state of disrepair, what soldiers there are, aren't trained very well at all, there best fighter aircraft (the best the world actually has to offer) is in so little supply, none of the aircraft could be afforded to be lost.

To go to war with anyone, Putin would need to sort out the Russian military, to atleast the level it was in 1990. And it would take a lot longer then a few years to do it.

 

[Gray Fox]

I thought the F-22 was the best fighter, then the eurofighter, then the russian fighters that do have the best manouvrebility.

 

[K e r b e r o s]

Every country believes its the best. However, none of they're best equipment has ever gone toe-to-toe. I'm still of the confidence a Challenger or Leopard II could dish out some severe punishment to an American Abrams.

 

[Operation Ivy]

Every country believes its the best. However, none of they're best equipment has ever gone toe-to-toe. I'm still of the confidence a Challenger or Leopard II could dish out some severe punishment to an American Abrams.

and the Abrams can do the same to both of those tanks.

Remember the all western tanks are basically the same, expesically the Abrams and LeoII because Germany and the US were going to make the MBT-70 for both countries but it failed and thus both countries took parts from the MBT-70 and poof u get the Abrams and Leo
Also the crew is the most important thing, tank can be replaced a crew cant.

 

[K e r b e r o s]

True. This is also why the Iraqi Ground Forces emploring T-70's and T-80 Beryoza's, were still smashed. Blame that on a coordinated army, but they'res still evidence to suggest enough, that the Russians did'nt infact have enough time to train Iraqi crews.

The Abrams, and an unarmored Leopard, remind me of either a Panzer, or Tiger Tank. Its a sickening love I have for those lines of weapons ...

 

[Operation Ivy]

yea tanks rule :farmer:

 

[GiaOmerta]

No, I see Russia conflicting with China before Russia will conflict with the US again. Russia is very scared to have a rapidly developing and potentially expansionist neighbour. There are a lot of Chinese people in east russia, so I'm sure China would have no trouble claiming Siberia and saying "yeah it always belonged to us" just like with Tibet and Xinjiang. Especially with all that Oil and gold potential in Siberia. Give that another 50 years at least though.

I completely agree.

As for Western Armor, we've been fortunate not having two major Western nations fight against each other within the last 40 years or so. Wither it be the American Abrams, the British Challenger or the German Leopard they pretty much dish out the same damage and rely on the same strategies.

A friend of mine has a British Scorpion tank. Fastest tank in the world. They were allowed to offically rigged it up to 51 mph. After the Guinness World Records guys left they played around and got it up to around 90 mph. Anything above 90 mph is kind of dangerous for a tank.

 

[Eg.]

i think i saw ur friend on boys toy on teh history channel, brit?