Title: Russian Navy: It's Not the Size of The Boat That Matters Source:
[None] URL Source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBBOHz_rgQA Published:Aug 16, 2020 Author:Russian Bear Post Date:2020-08-16 14:52:29 by Horse Keywords:None Views:3849 Comments:49
Poster Comment:
What you need to understand is the difference between the the US and Russian military budgets. Russians see defense spending as a way to protect Russians. American rulers see defense spending as a way to rob the American people by the tens of trillions of dollars. Dr Mark Skidmore told us that $21 trillion had gone missing from two federal agencies - HUD and DOD. He once told a funny story. The US Army has an annual budget of $122 billion. So much money had gone missing that the US Treasury sent them a check for $800 billion. Guess what happened? The $800 billion went missing too!!
Both the needs and capacity of Russia and the USA differ. At least in the present day.
The US needs to project military might as a way of preserving the dollar as the world reserve currency. This requires things like aircraft carriers and bases all over the world. Big ships are required for that. The fall of the USSR means Russia has been forced out of the capacity of empire. They are now on the defensive with a NATO country now bordering Russia. With a budget on par with Italy, they no longer have the capacity to do anything other than build defensive weaponry. Russia spends far more on their military than the USA as measured as a % of GDP, but of course that's still far less in raw spending than the USA does.
Because of that, they need to be frugal and smart about their spending, so they focus on appropriate weapons accordingly. Ergo, it ends up being missiles galore, both anti-aircraft and anti-ship (including submersive nuclear drones with a 3k mile range), as well as, reportedly, these strategic nukes that have "unlimited range" and able to maneuver around anti-missile defensive positions. Reputedly their S-500 anti-aircraft missiles are capable of taking out incoming ballistic nukes.
The USA, by contrast, probably suffers from extreme overconfidence, and understandably so, as the USA is the current world superpower. The ability to deficit spend with no real checks & balances has created an environment of waste on systems that may or may not be useful or effective.
The biggest national security threat the USA faces is not Russia. Not Iran, North Korea or even China (though I rate China as the foreign country that is the biggest threat). The biggest threat is the national debt and deficit. If the dollar collapses, then the USA ceases to be a world superpower. With just 5-6% of world's population, we'll have about that same amount of say in world affairs, and that is after the country gets back on its feet again, which requires and end of marxist socialism that is currently taking hold.
Interesting stuff in this article, not that I agree with every point. Hell, I found it because I was trying to back up my idea that most US wars since WWII (lol, I know, none of them are "wars", Congress, declarations, and all that) were for the sole purpose of supporting narrow business interests of well connected elites. Vietnam had nothing to do with fighting Communism, it was about getting tin for 5 cents a ton cheaper than we could buy it on the free market.
I told friends and fellow students that JFK would be assassinated so we could have a war in Vietnam. The major profits are still coming in to the Banks who launder a trillion a year for drug and ex traffickers and illegal arms sales plus $500 billion a year in offshore political bribes. The other reason to kill JFK was Ben Gurion wanted him dead so Israel could have nuclear weapons.
Israel Killed JFK And Has Ruled America Ever Since.