Clark Griswold Posted November 15, 2014 Posted November 15, 2014 Right after we get all the resiliency training finished up. That'll show 'em. Sweet Baby Jesus, if someone showed Putin that video, he'd probably authorize a pre-emptive nuke strike just on principle. That's how we won WWII - hug it out and our enemies will become frenimies.
Clark Griswold Posted November 15, 2014 Posted November 15, 2014 Good article on a strategy not just flinching tactics to deal with Putin's Russia. How to Defeat Putin We should help rebuild a free Ukraine that will undermine totalitarianism in Russia. 1- Lower energy prices worldwide. 2- Rebuild and support Ukraine. 3 - Begin to or try to pull away client states in the Western Hemisphere (Cuba, Venezuela, etc.) 4 - Rinse, Lather, Repeat.
McDonut Posted November 17, 2014 Posted November 17, 2014 Thought I recognized that author. He also writes a bunch on space exploration, especially on colonizing Mars. Huge Mars hardon.
Prosuper Posted November 17, 2014 Posted November 17, 2014 Good article on a strategy not just flinching tactics to deal with Putin's Russia. How to Defeat Putin We should help rebuild a free Ukraine that will undermine totalitarianism in Russia. 1- Lower energy prices worldwide. 2- Rebuild and support Ukraine. 3 - Begin to or try to pull away client states in the Western Hemisphere (Cuba, Venezuela, etc.) 4 - Rinse, Lather, Repeat. We outspend them and build weapons that bankrupt them trying to counter them.
Majestik Møøse Posted November 17, 2014 Posted November 17, 2014 We outspend them and build weapons that bankrupt them trying to counter them. It's too late, we're already outspending ourselves. 1
Clark Griswold Posted November 17, 2014 Posted November 17, 2014 We outspend them and build weapons that bankrupt them trying to counter them. Collapse or at least put a dent in petroleum / NG prices - no money means no power. New weapons would be good, particularly a new BVR AAM (even longer than AIM-120D sts) and a mucho expanded EW & SEAD-DEAD capability. It's too late, we're already outspending ourselves. No way - there's still some more paper we can print.
Clark Griswold Posted December 15, 2014 Posted December 15, 2014 (edited) Nyet on flying with transponders on for Russian jets... 'Foreign military aircraft' nearly collides with passenger plane over Sweden and intercept of Su-34s from a Dutch F-16... Edited December 15, 2014 by Clark Griswold
Clayton Bigsby Posted December 17, 2014 Posted December 17, 2014 With the Ruble crashing, the Russians can stop being dicks anytime now... Karma, baby!
Ram Posted December 18, 2014 Posted December 18, 2014 The Russians will never stop being dicks. They can, however, eat a whole bowl of 'em, for all I care. And for dessert, I would like to suggest that they eat an entire fleet of cocks. 3
Clark Griswold Posted December 19, 2014 Posted December 19, 2014 The Russians will never stop being dicks. Probably. Russia is remaking itself as the leader of the anti-Western world
Guest ThatGuy Posted December 19, 2014 Posted December 19, 2014 (edited) I think the burning question that is on everyone mind and for those of us who have interacted with the Russian juicy girls while in Korea can ask the one real question. When is the US going to allow Russian/Ukrainian women to come over here more freely? I don't mean the dudes either.. LOL. Just the ladies. Those women are down for their men and can drink with the best of us. I had a friend who married a Russian lady and paid tobbringhher overaand her kid. I met her and shesseemed cool. But it didn't work out after all that money he paid to get her over here so they got a divorce. Sounded like she didn't want to work or something. Edited December 19, 2014 by slick999
Tank Posted December 19, 2014 Posted December 19, 2014 ..........? I'm guessing one to many Russian Vodkas.... 2
Clark Griswold Posted December 27, 2014 Posted December 27, 2014 If you've got 15 minutes this is a good summary of why Russia is the way it is. Understanding the Russian mindset
Milchstrasse Posted January 25, 2015 Posted January 25, 2015 (edited) Here's a pretty intense video of pro-russian separatists shelling the city of Mariupol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISnzgvOpWL0 Here's another: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKZswlhkhKs Edited January 25, 2015 by Milchstrasse
HuggyU2 Posted April 21, 2015 Posted April 21, 2015 Tipping the balance of power in the Middle East? https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2015/04/russian-weapon-could-tip-balance-middle-east/110533/?oref=d-channelriver
dvlax40 Posted April 21, 2015 Posted April 21, 2015 Might be a good time to bring up the realignment of the bomber fleet.... anyone else see the signs pointing towards coldwar 2.0 (SAC TAC MAC return)
deaddebate Posted August 27, 2015 Posted August 27, 2015 Â https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Transcripts/Transcript-View/Article/614654/department-of-defense-press-briefing-by-secretary-james-and-gen-welsh-on-the-stSECAF James: And indeed, Russia's military activity in the Ukraine continues to be of great concern to us and to our European allies. And I think Secretary of Defense Carter put it quite well last week when he said that our approach to Russia needs to be strong and it needs to be balanced. Now, rotational forces and training exercises help us maintain our strong and balanced approach, and we will certainly be continuing these in the future. For the Air Force, an F-22 deployment is certainly on the strong side of the coin, and so today, we are announcing that we will very soon deploy F-22s to Europe to support combatant commander requirements, and as part of the European reassurance initiative. Airmen who are a part of this inaugural F-22 training deployment will train with our joint partners and our NATO allies across Europe as part of our continued effort to assure our allies and demonstrate our commitments to security and stability of Europe. But for operational security reasons, we cannot share with you the exact dates or the locations of this deployment.[...]Q: General Welsh, can I ask you a couple of things? First on the F-22, if it's part of the European reassurance initiative, then straight up, is this not a message that the Air Force is delivering to Putin and the Russians? [...]CSAF Welsh: Yes ma'am. I would tell you the F-22 deploying to Europe is just a continuation of deploying it everywhere we can to train with our partners. We're going to be doing a training deployment, we'll operate with a number of different air forces. We'll get the F-22 into facilities that we would potentially use in a conflict in Europe, things like the bases where we do aviation attachments, to places where we do air policing missions. They'll train with some of our European partners. They're there primarily for an exercise, training with our European partners. So this is a natural evolution in bringing our best air-to-air capability in to train with partners who have been long and trusted ones.
panchbarnes Posted October 28, 2015 Posted October 28, 2015 What can possibly go wrong w/ this plan?https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/11961836/Nato-considers-sending-4000-troops-to-Russian-borders.html and then this:https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sec-carter-direct-u-s-action-ground-iraq-syria-n452131Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Tuesday that the U.S. will begin "direct action on the ground" against ISIS forces in Iraq and Syria, aiming to intensify pressure on the militants as progress against them remains elusive. And then there is also SCS, it's no wonder we are recalling people back to AD.
panchbarnes Posted October 29, 2015 Posted October 29, 2015 Â https://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/russian-aircraft-approach-uss-ronald-reagan-prompting-us-fighter-jet-scramble-1.375709The Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group and South Korean navy ships steam in formation during an exercise Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015, in international waters to the east of the Korean Peninsula. Two Russian aircraft flew within one nautical mile at a height of 500 feet, prompting the carrier to launch four fighter jets in response. The Russian aircraft left without further incident.
Clark Griswold Posted April 25, 2016 Posted April 25, 2016 (edited) More good news. https://warontherocks.com/2016/04/outnumbered-outranged-and-outgunned-how-russia-defeats-nato/ While not likely (IMO) still food for thought.  What is more likely is what they did / are doing in Eastern Ukraine, a new Hybrid War using "little green men", info, cyber, and lawfare while the West dithers on what to do, they establish facts on the ground and it is done with no real chance of it being reversed anytime soon. BBC on the "little green men" in Ukraine. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26532154 Why not establish a policy like Kennedy did during the Cuban Missile Crisis Except this time establish it as the policy of NATO, the EU, US and as many allies as we could sign up to regard the use of destabilizing clandestine action either leading to military conflict or not as attack requiring escalating responses to include direct military action. Establish that it will be the sole prerogative of Allied Nations to determine when they or their Allies are under attack and use escalating diplomatic, economic, informational, electronic retaliation all while increasing your readiness and posture for direct action.  On the next aggressive flyby or intercept, do a show of force with a suspension of commercial air & naval activity for 2 weeks, give travelers 72 hours to get out of dodge.  If that is not loud enough, take the amp to 11, and seize assets. The West wants to avoid war and not be bullied then it needs to use what it can short of going to war to get the bully to respect them Edited April 25, 2016 by Clark Griswold 1
guineapigfury Posted April 25, 2016 Posted April 25, 2016 The Russians are shrinking in both population and economic power.  If they want to exhaust themselves with military ventures they cannot afford, I suggest we don't interrupt them while they're making mistakes.
di1630 Posted April 25, 2016 Posted April 25, 2016 If NATO needed to fight, they'd have a hard time getting fighters there because they'd need to deconflict the their air show schedules first. Make no mistake. If the US didn't stop it, Putin could roll into Europe no problem.
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