sigma wrote:Isaac wrote:Mark my words. We are headed in the direction of replacing soldiers with robots. Though we're not yet there, it's only a matter of time. And once we can invade anyone without the cost of lost lives, I think things will change; we'll invade anyone we don't like. I think Russia's fear become a reality.
edit: Nukes won't help Russia, once we go pure drone. It would be like trying to stop a swarm of African bees with a shotgun. Russia is trying to keep up in the weapons department, but they rely too much on copying U.S. technology. If that continues we'll always have the cutting edge stuff while they'll still be running around in the snow with obsolete AK-47s while fighting robots one of our stupid politicians sent.
I know that the Japanese have a wise proverb - "The real winner of the fight is the one who was able to prevent a fight." In Russian, on the contrary, a close analogue of this saying is - "Who is to come to us with the sword, shall perish by the sword." And in the U.S.?
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hm. you know that's a quote from Jesus, right? (Matthew 26:51-52)
The fact is that the US has been destroying chemical weapons for like 30 years here in Oregon. The problem is that "chemical" weapons are warheads with nerve agent and the like. The stuff is dangerous and most processes don't do a swell job of keeping the stuff contained during destruction. It's a very long dangerous process ...that no one want in the THEIR back yard. You can't just round up 50 years of weapons and drop them in the ground or a burn barrel somewhere and tada! done! and the arsenal HAS been reduced, just not eliminated.
THAT would be foolish.
The whole point of the cold war (in the end) was a peaceful Mexican stand-off. No one wants to pull that trigger, but no one is going to leave the other with an advantage. A very dangerous game of "Agree to disagree".
Russia isn't the only country with "nukes" pointed across their borders. There are subs off our shores to be sure. Humans like war. It's who we are as a species. Some may not like it, but I don't see it ending any time soon. My folk's generation vowed to end war ..lol .. look who's running the show now? Cuz you know, sticking daisies in missile silos will bring world piece.
Oh, My brother used to tell me of the war games that we used to play with the Russian soldiers in Germany before it was reunited. These kinda things happen regularly, we just don't hear about them. Remember the US pilots "Captured" by China a few decades ago?
as it turns out the US marine surveillance and the Chinese Air Force play chicken all the time. It was just that one time when they both got too close and collided.
The same with that tanker that one of our aircraft carriers rammed in the Gulf of Mexico back in, oh.. 84? 85?. You know WHY it hit that tanker? So it didn't ram the Soviet sub that was right next to it. ...and my source on this was a former classmate of mine that was stationed on that Carrier during the incident.
This little demonstration really means nothing.
Actually, usually Russia always warns in advance other countries about large military exercises in Russia. Only the USA not always warns the Russian authorities about the American military exercises. It always causes full combat readiness of all armies in Russia. All know that the next military test, for example, nuclear missiles in the USA about which the American authorities once again won't consider necessary to inform the Russian military, it sometime can badly end. Lord, save all us with you on the stupidity of American politicians.
