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Bi_3 wrote:
elliseamos wrote:
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One sign the Russian economy remains under severe pressure is that inflation in Russia is more than double the rate in the U.S. That's creating pressure for Russians to move their money out of the country, said Frankel of the Harvard Kennedy School.
Russian Central Bank can't loosen their policies or all this value disappears. But they can't keep things the way they are because it's too expensive. Seems like a matter of time before something gives, no?
I am not educated enough on this topic to respond, but here's some recent links that imply a different take:
Russia selling Ukraine deliberately bad arms has got to be reason enough for India to think twice about their deals.
Also, simultaneously has to mean huge deals for US arms dealers, especially with NATOs announcement today to expand their personnel/equipment.
India is pretty reliant on Russian cruise missiles and aircraft engines. They'd probably have to switch to entirely different airframes. They went with the Rafael if I'm not mistaken, but they can't replace their entire force with this one model.
Most of NATO aircraft procurement now is European countries upgrading to F-35s and then transferring some of their F-16s to Eastern European countries. I don't think there is a capacity to replace former USSR aircraft as well. Greece and Turkey are at the back of the queue waiting for replacements for their F-4s, are they going to be jumped in line?
This whole business does seem to justify the F-20 Tigershark, a shame we didn't proceed with it. Good opportunity for the Gripen, no idea what their production capacity is like.
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Joined: Thu January 10, 2013 2:19 am Posts: 8890 Location: SOUTH PORTLAND
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan agreed Tuesday to lift his objection to Sweden and Finland, paving the way for the two Scandinavian nations to join the alliance as soon as this summer. The leaders of the three countries signed a trilateral memorandum on the sidelines of the NATO Summit in Madrid confirming Turkey would support Sweden and Finland's accession after weeks of negotiations over counterterrorism and arms exports
Joined: Thu January 10, 2013 2:19 am Posts: 8890 Location: SOUTH PORTLAND
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The Pentagon announced another arms shipment to Ukraine on Friday that is valued at around $400 million, bringing the total military assistance rolled out since February to over $7 billion.
The Pentagon announced another arms shipment to Ukraine on Friday that is valued at around $400 million, bringing the total military assistance rolled out since February to over $7 billion.
_________________ "The fatal flaw of all revolutionaries is that they know how to tear things down but don't have a f**king clue about how to build anything."
The Pentagon announced another arms shipment to Ukraine on Friday that is valued at around $400 million, bringing the total military assistance rolled out since February to over $7 billion.
I can't help but think this is a justification to slow roll support. Does the West want a frozen conflict in Ukraine as Russia has in Georgia and elsewhere? Handing out HIMARS 4 at a time has a certain look. We could have flooded Ukraine with M109s and just chose not to.
The one thing the Air force is really for is dumping all the A-10s on Ukraine so they can finally be rid of them.
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