This wasnt supposed to happen, I dont think.
POLITICO:
President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia has got a strong edge in designing new weapons and that it has become the only country in the world to deploy hypersonic weapons.
Speaking at a meeting with top military brass, Putin said that for the first time in history Russia is now leading the world in developing an entire new class of weapons unlike in the past when it was catching up with the United States.
The Russian leader noted that during Cold War times, the Soviet Union was behind the United States in designing the atomic bomb and building strategic bombers and intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Now we have a situation that is unique in modern history when they are trying to catch up to us, he said. Not a single country has hypersonic weapons, let alone hypersonic weapons of intercontinental range.
The Pentagon and the U.S. military services have been working on the development of hypersonic weapons in recent years, and Defense Secretary Mark Esper said in August that he believes its probably a matter of a couple of years before the U.S. has one. He has called it a priority as the military works to develop new long-range fire capabilities.
What we have to ask is: are futuristic military weapons even relevant anymore?
Right now, it appears to me that all global power gains are being made using psychological warfare. In particular, the US has gotten really good at using internet media to stir up populations into rioting against their own governments, and then using Western media to back up the fake revolutionaries as fighters for freedom and democracy.
The US has thrown revolutions to take over huge parts of Russian territory.
Theyve taken both Georgia and the Ukraine. Now there are people rioting in Belarus.
And in Moscow.
Russia appears to have absolutely zero ability to counter any of this.
This is probably because the US currently has an ideology that it is pushing: anal sex and tattoos.
Russia, which used to have communism, does not currently have a clear ideology to sell to the world.
The obvious thing for Russia to do would be to push traditional Christianity and traditional Christian values as a counter vision of mans position in the universe to that being presented by the West.
I dont really understand why theyre not doing this. It just seems so obvious.
During the revolution in the Ukraine, it would have been very easy to have the Russian-backed establishment that got overthrown represent Christianity against the Western values of gay sex. They would have gotten a lot more support. As it stood, the president who was overthrown represented nothing at all other than Russia in a vague sense, I guess primarily as an ethnicity and linguistic identity.
Of course, the Ukraine ended up with gay sex parades immediately after the revolution.
If the population had known that anti-Russia means gay sex parades, they probably would have been much less comfortable with the revolution.
Theres also the whole immigrant flood issue, which is a massive cultural dividing line. And everyone is aware that Russia isnt allowing itself to be buried in refugees, but Russia never makes it a point to play this up on the world stage.
I mean they do have this value system. It is both the last Christian country and the last white country in many senses (yes, you have Poland and Hungary, but theyre already in the EU and its only a matter of time before they go full anal/Islam). Why they dont market themselves as this, I just cannot really grasp.
It is definitely amazing that Russia, still a relatively poor country that is under constant bombardment by the West, and is actually still recovering from the fall of the Soviet Union, was able to pull ahead of the US in terms of development of military technology. I dont mean to try to negate that massive accomplishment.
But I do wish that Russia would be more aware of the development of this new battlefield that has emerged over the last 15 years, which is an ideological battlefield. If they got into the game, it wouldnt be hard to win it.
Right now, the US is able to be everything to everyone. They promote radical Islam in the Middle East, they promote neo-Nazism in the Ukraine, they promote British imperialism (I guess) in Hong Kong. If Russia took a hard stance as a defender of the traditional values of Europe on the global stage, it would be the perfect counter to all of this.
An amazing and historical thing happened in 2015, when Angela Merkel was flooding Germany with Moslem rape gangs: people marching against the invasion broke out with chants of Putin to Berlin, Merkel to Siberia.
#1: Pinguinite To: Ada (#0)
The US is focused on projecting its military might worldwide with the F-35 and lots of naval ships. And of course, the military industrial complex is just interested in making money by inventing all kinds of cool weapons that cost a lot but are often not particularly useful in real life military situations. So in missile tech, Russia has pulled ahead because they don't have to worry about all this other might-projecting weaponry.
Pinguinite posted on 2019-12-27 11:36:53 Reply Private Reply
#2: Lod To: Pinguinite, Ada, 4 (#1)
RU is also product and results driven, not profit(s) like the MIC here, who care less about great products than great profits.
Lod posted on 2019-12-27 12:12:08 Reply Private Reply
#3: Lod To: Pinguinite, Ada, 4 (#1)
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Lod posted on 2019-12-27 12:20:15 Reply Private Reply
#4: Cynicom To: Pinguinite, Lod, All (#1)
True...
Two thoughts come to mind on that subject.
1. Why is China building aircraft carriers at a 24/7 furious pace??? same with India????
2. If Russia is NOT building to project, rather to PROTECT, whom do they fear?
Cynicom posted on 2019-12-27 12:59:36 Reply Private Reply
#5: Ada To: Cynicom (#4)
1. China is protecting its trade routes. Have no idea what's on India's mind.
2. Russia fears us because we are surrounding them with our bases. (Russia's navy appears to be even worse than our 7th fleet.)
Ada posted on 2019-12-27 17:06:02 Reply Private Reply
#6: BTP Holdings To: Ada (#5)
It is not just that but Russia is incensed with NATO encroachment into areas like Ukraine which have been historical areas of Russian influence. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2019-12-27 18:01:12 Reply Private Reply
#7: Cynicom To: Ada (#5)
Think about that.
We have been on Russias borders for 75 years. Not one of those bases is offensive in nature, they are PUNITIVE by nature. Russia knows that and understands it. They have been contained from adventures.
Russia has NO common border with the US. They understand there will never be any offensive invasion from any of those bases.
In contrast Russia has a 2500 mile border with China and other Asian countries with billions of Asians looking for food and a place to live. Currently there are 4 billion, 600 million Asians. Russia is the largest country in the world, with population of 145 MILLION.
The US is an ocean away from Russia. Russia would be happy if we stayed on the Asian mainland FOREVER.
Geo/politics is a dull subject but very enlightening.
By 2050 India will have more hungry people than China.
Cynicom posted on 2019-12-27 18:25:29 Reply Private Reply
#8: IRTorqued To: Lod (#2)
sans the MIC this best economy ever can not stand up and all the gift wrappers were let go just in time for christmas.
IRTorqued posted on 2019-12-27 18:45:45 Reply Private Reply
#9: BTP Holdings To: Cynicom (#7)
That is if India and Pakistan get into a shooting war over Kashmir.
One of the reasons we are in Afghanistan is so we can take out the Paki nukes if they become more unreasonable. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2019-12-27 19:14:57 Reply Private Reply