Vann7 wrote:I don't understand much about economics , probably never will.
But can someone please explain me why the Orangutan in the kremlin
Mr Putin is not taking seriously its defense budget?
The times Russians are living today,their danger ,is at the level of Operation barbarrosa When Nazis declare war on soviet Union and invade it. Just
days or weeks earlier ,when it was know ,war was 80% to 90% chance to happen. You just have know americans firing the first shots ,threatening the
lives of Russian soldiers in Syria.and saying there will be more.
So first question is 1)why Russia spend only 2% or 3% of its GDP on its military.Why not 20% or 30% or 40% ? Russia could be in a world war 3 in a matter of days or weeks in many fronts , not only in Syria and Ukraine ,but kaliningrad ,Serbia ,Tajikistan,Armenia. So if my country was withing weeks
of a nuclear war ,then why in hell just spend budget so little in defense? I mean Russia could had cancel the stupid FIFA and save there a dozen of billions $USD.
Second question is 2) What kind of budget Russia could get for defense if it knew ,a nuclear war was 50% of happening with NATO ?
If it was by me.. i will had like 40% of the budget at least ,in defense ,to cover ARmy ,airforce,Navy and for the militarization of Space. and completely
move out of all international sports ,cut funds to all pensioners that are not Russian citizens and significantly reduce the the expending in electricity and roads and paralize all housing projects and have everyone working in the defense industry building tanks or planes.
But it is spending much more than 3%. Russia's military industry fraction of the GDP is grossly understated due to very low prices and
lots of de facto barter transactions. I have posted on this many times. How can one justify $2 billion for a singly Soryuu diesel-electric sub
from Japan and $2 billion (pre 2014 exchange rate) for
six Project 636.3 subs from Russia. It does not matter whether one has
AIP and the other does not. The AIP system does not jack up the cost of a sub by a factor of six. The 636.3 subs are world class and
not junk. There are many such other cases.
So the effective expenditure on the military is at least 10% of the official GDP and likely higher. The official GDP is understated since
the proper accounting for the military sector is not done. PPP adjustments are biased to civilian sector prices so miss the Russian military
industrial scale completely.
You can name call all you want, it just shows your lack of IQ, but Putin has done a great job fooling NATO about Russia's true military
potential. Back in 2004 it was basically common knowledge in Washington that Russia is a second rate regional power. Hence the
surprise about Russian cruise missile strikes on jihadis in Syria. If he was spending 40% of the GDP, i.e. 200% of the actual government
revenues, on the military he would be an moron. It would destroy the economy and likely feed massive waste and corruption while
keeping NATO in a panic. Thus NATO has lost its window of opportunity to take out Russia. And every year the gap is spreading so
that by 2030 NATO will be licking Russia's boots. The US ABM shield is a cheap violation of the INF and in now way gives Uncle Scumbag
nuclear primacy. Russia properly bitches about the ABM to leverage US idiocy for its own natural security interests. The Washington
hubris filled windbags have given Russia carte blanche to develop weapons systems that totally defeat the ABM.
The Saramat has the capacity to basically deliver the MARVs via any trajectory around the whole planet. The USA can't place its
ABM rockets at every longitude and latitude and it will not be effective at terminal stage warhead interception anyway.
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