I dunno about that. I think Giap got all of the US Mil he could handle. And Hitler didn't even have the US on his radar.
Putin is just a 2.25 World Despot taking advantage of a War Weary US and a feckless EU.
True, but the US underestimated Hitler at the start.
JACK- Did we hijack your thread enough!? Sorry bro! VG and I will discuss off forum. LOL
The ICBMs are a non-factor because using them is an End Game with no End Game. It's hard to push him around because Germany, France, and The UK have little to no will to push him around.
Critics point to the Russian "occupation" of Crimea as evidence that no fair vote could have taken place.
Where were these people when an election held in an Iraq occupied by U.S. troops was called a "triumph of democracy"?
Why does the U.S. care which flag will be hoisted on a small piece of land thousands of miles away?
Because of energy dependence or apathy?
ICBM's I don't see being anything more than a feasible threat. sure, he ...could, but they'd be heading back his way as well.
Dictators all have one thing in common: they want to remain dictators living off their people. nuclear war would put an abrupt end to that.
highest probability of a CBRN on american soil is a clandestine terrorist attack supplied by one of the aforementioned countries... which I think we will certainly see in our lifetime.
Ukraine's security chief says that the country will hold joint military exercises with the United States and Britain.
Andriy Parubiy, the secretary of the National Security and Defense Council secretary, said Wednesday that Ukraine will hold maneuvers with the countries that signed the 1994 Budapest Memorandum. He didn't give any specifics.
The document was signed by the U.S., Britain and Russia to guarantee Ukraine's territorial integrity after it had surrendered its share of Soviet nuclear arsenals to Russia.
Ukraine has accused Russia of breaching the agreement by taking over the Crimean peninsula.
That puts it into a better perspective. But he still has ICBMs so it is much harder to push him around.
This. You can't push Russia.
Hitting a moving target on an ocean isn't what ICBMs do. If he used a small tactical device against a Vessel or Group of Vessels I would expect the response would be NATO, in fairly short order, dismantling the entirety of Russia's Conventional Military Capability.
Well, I'm sure you can, I was just gaming it in my head and asking here because we have a few really well informed members that excel at war theory.
If he were to hit our fleet, would it be difficult to maintain air superiority? What's their airforce like these days? Do we have any bases in that region?
All of Western Europe is filled with Airbases. Not to mention massive bases in The Baltics and Poland. The threat of military force from Russia isn't all that credible. There are some near term economic levers Russia can pull vis a vis Natural Gas it supplies to Europe. However that's winning the battle at the cops of the war. If Europe starts fracking and importing gas from the US, North Africa, and Canada it's economies
Will hum right along on e those supply chains are ironed out. What will Russia do without a market easily reachable by pipelines? The Russian economy is a one
Trick Pony. Kind of a House of Cards propped up by oil and gas cash. Any force they exert on the Gas and Oil market will hurt Europe in the short term but has the potential to undo Russia in the mid to long term.