I don't see any relation - current regime hates Stalin anyway. And Putin is tired of being compared to him. Russian civilians do that, because he is really weak before the slightest image of Stalin. And modern Russian movies sponsored by ministry of culture are criticising and dumping on that era as a whole.
So here's the question:
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Hyperbole. War is not "inevitable".
It would be prudent to order another one to the area quickly and quietly as to not get caught with our pants down. One to the North Atlantic would be a smart play as well.
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This clearly fearmongering on a very gross scale. According to this https://russianforces.org/navy/ Russia has 11 SSBNs with 656 warheads. The US has 14 Tridents SSBNs with 24 Trident missiles each and 10 warheads on each missile makes 3360 warheads. Slighty more than Russia which nwever in history was the submarine danger silly movies like "Hunt for Red October" suggest. Furthermore Russia has 17 nuclear powered SSNs compared to 29 Los Angeles Class, 19 Virginia Class and 3 Seawolf Class boats, together 51 SSNs. Not to mention the four Ohio class converted SSGNs. Nowhere is the russian navy near apoint where she "is all over the NATO warships ready to sink them". Quite the opposite would be the case if the russian navy would ever venture to the high seas. Concerning the CSGs there are three of them floating and another three could be raised very quickly to deployment ready status. But nothing of this will happen.
Japan was holding talks with the US right up to the exact moment Pearl Harbor was attacked.US, Russia to hold talks on arms control, Ukraine on January 10
The United States and Russia will hold much-anticipated talks in January, a White House official told AFP Monday, with the rivals due to negotiate on nuclear arms control and mounting tensions over Ukraine.
excuse me, but I wonder why this kind of news is not enought to downgrade the Defcon Level to 5. To postpone the summit on 12 and 13 Jannuary it's like saying: "ok, ok, we are ready to war, the situation is very serious, but before, let's eat Christmas cake, uncork the champagne on New Year's Eve, celebrate the Befana on 6 Jannuary, then just a week of work in order to realize that holidays are actually over... and we are finally ready to discuss the situation as soon as possible!".
it seems pretty obvious to me that it is a sort of mummery between US and Russia and that at certain levels they have already been agreed on something completely unknown.
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Not from the US or NATO, no. And although I am not 100% positive, I don't think we could even if we wanted to since they are not a NATO nation state.
Ukraine is capable of building them, I think MRBMs are getting stationed in NATO countries after a russian invasion of Ukraine.
id say this is to ensure no combat in nato borders, we already stated the consequences we intend to give out if the russians invade the ukraine and they are sanctionsRemember how one of my supporting arguments about the US not getting involved militarily in Ukraine was that we didn't have a CSG in the Med to support such an operation?
SECDEF Orders U.S. Carrier USS Harry S. Truman to Stay in Mediterranean to Reassure Allies - USNI News
A U.S. carrier strike group is lingering in the Mediterranean Sea rather than journeying to the Middle East on orders from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, USNI News learned on Tuesday. USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75), Carrier Air Wing 1 and its escorts are now operating in the Ionian Sea between...
