Text 20036, 46 rader
Skriven 2008-08-23 04:24:18 av Bob Ackley (1:300/3)
  Kommentar till text 19934 av Herman Neut (2:280/1141)
Ärende: Russia attacking Poland
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Replying to a message of Herman Neut to Bob Ackley:

 AP>>> Since Poland said yes to our missile defense system... do you
 AP>>> think Russia would have the balls to actually attack Poland?
 AP>>> They are making  some very threatening statements.

 BA>> If Putin does decide to do that I wonder what Bush minor could
 BA>> possibly do about it - short of letting fly a couple of thousand
 BA>> nuclear tipped missiles.

 HN> If Putin does attack Poland? No doubt that means an new global war.
 HN> (NATO)

Can't be a conventional war, the US doesn't have the troops to fight the 
Russian army nor does it have the transport capacity to move them there or
supply them after they arrive.

 AP>>> Unfortunately the US is barely in a position to patrol it's own
 AP>>> borders  much less protect anyone else.

 BA>> The US military is pretty well tied down in southwest Asia, and
 BA>> will be for the forseeable future.  The numbers of US troops
 BA>> needed to fight the Red Army (and the supplies to support them)
 BA>> simply don't exist.

 HN> What is "Red Army"? (There isn't a Soviet army any more;-)
 HN> There might be a short of US troops today (many more NATO members have
 HN> a shortage of troops, like my country has) but US has still an
 HN> overkill with nukes. So has the ex-USSR. But possible the readyness
 HN> is of such calibre that using those weapons is more dangerous to
 HN> Russia itself.

 BA>> In point of fact, should Putin decide to send the Red Army into
 BA>> Poland, I don't see any military reason for them to stop short of the
 BA>> North Sea and English channel They might hit a few speed bumps along
 BA>> the way but the forces - short of those nuclear tipped missiles -
 BA>> that could stop them don't exist.

 HN> So the only way to stop Putin's army is to nuke Putin's homeland. And
 HN> than? Just: "Goodbye Earth Globe!"

Or let him have Europe.  And then the middle east, and south Asia, and Arabia,
and Africa.  Not necessarily in that order.

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