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Originally posted by Alien Abduct
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by xlb40
When you have defense systems that move at the speed of light (which is 299 million miles per second) you can pretty much successfully render conventional nuclear warfare useless
186 thousand miles per second.
An effective defensive laser system is far off. Laser systems have one major problem. Clouds, even haze, quickly render them ineffective.
Are Russia's ICBM launchers close to their borders?
edit on 11/30/2011 by Phage because: (no reason given)
#1. The United States military as we all know is decades ahead of us civilians.
#2 It seems the Russians might very well have some intelligence on the fact that the new upgrades are far more capable than the United States leads on.
That being said and judging by how reactive Russia is to the situation I think we could reasonably assume that indeed there is something very advanced being built over there, and its nothing that we as citizens have access to nor even have information about for that matter.
-Alien
Originally posted by Rebel21
honestly if a world war 3 broke out i think most small countries would float away from the united states. An example of this is when the bad earthquake hit haiti a few years ago they refused our help because they felt like we wanted something in return. Also lately ive been paying attention to the elections and ron paul has some interesting ideas about the middle east. All i know is i want China and canada on our side.
Originally posted by Alien Abduct
Originally posted by Rebel21
honestly if a world war 3 broke out i think most small countries would float away from the united states. An example of this is when the bad earthquake hit haiti a few years ago they refused our help because they felt like we wanted something in return. Also lately ive been paying attention to the elections and ron paul has some interesting ideas about the middle east. All i know is i want China and canada on our side.
Which small countries would you deem paramount or important or even significant enough that we would need them to win a world war?
-Alien
Originally posted by leosnake
reply to post by Shenon
after Putin become president in 2112 everything will be much worse
United States due to its unreasoned policy of arms now help Putin to come to power
Originally posted by nightbringr
Originally posted by leosnake
reply to post by Shenon
after Putin become president in 2112 everything will be much worse
United States due to its unreasoned policy of arms now help Putin to come to power
Dont kid yourself. Putin is and has been the real power in Russia all along.
Originally posted by nightbringr
Originally posted by Alien Abduct
Originally posted by Rebel21
honestly if a world war 3 broke out i think most small countries would float away from the united states. An example of this is when the bad earthquake hit haiti a few years ago they refused our help because they felt like we wanted something in return. Also lately ive been paying attention to the elections and ron paul has some interesting ideas about the middle east. All i know is i want China and canada on our side.
Which small countries would you deem paramount or important or even significant enough that we would need them to win a world war?
-Alien
Depends how you define "win". If by bombing the s#@t out of everything and saying you win, fine. If you actually plan to occupy countries to gain hedgemony over their resources, your gonna need a LOT of help. Mandatory conscription might help.
edit on 1-12-2011 by nightbringr because: (no reason given)
Russia threatened a nuclear strike against Poland after a landmark deal to site American global anti-missile shields in the country.
Only 24 hours after the weapons agreement was signed Russia's deputy chief of staff warned Poland "is exposing itself to a strike 100 per cent".
General Anatoly Nogovitsyn said that any new US assets in Europe could come under Russian nuclear attack with his forces targeting "the allies of countries having nuclear weapons".
He told Russia's Interfax news agency: "By hosting these, Poland is making itself a target. This is 100 per cent certain. It becomes a target for attack. Such targets are destroyed as a first priority."