WAT? DON’T THEY KNOW THE COLD WAR IS OVER? WHY CAN’T WE JUST SPEND ALL THAT MONEY ON EDUCATION DERP

Russians worked to defeat Nazis the way a forest burns to defeat fire.

F-117 and B-2 haven’t performed their role? Are you fucking retarded?

Wow. This isn’t the normal knowledgeable foxtrot crowd. One Trillion dollars is the cost of the F-35 program over the LIFE of the program - development, procurement (buying the actual planes), training, scheduled upgrades and maintenance for a couple decades.

Are you trolling or just vastly under-informed?

“Bwahaha xD oh man I love the putinbots on here. You guys have gone so far off the end of the disconnected/troll spectrum you can’t even be taken seriously anymore. You do you, buttercup.”

“Healthcare? Education?”

We were fighting two countries at the same time.Also,Do the words Lend/Lease mean anything to you? Without the U.S. you'd be speaking German by now.

There is a country in the Far East called China. And both aircraft have actually performed missions they were built for. And today it takes a decade to put a modern combat aircraft in service. And you are horribly shortsighted; who says that there won’t be a full scale war in the near future?

Bwahaha xD oh man I love the putinbots on here. You guys have gone so far off the end of the disconnected/troll spectrum you can’t even be taken seriously anymore. You do you, buttercup.

So by your logic Russia is stupid to be buying new nuclear boomers because they were never used?

Well I’ll be sure to tell Crimea and Georgia that everything’s OK, since your family isn’t worried about it. Do your friends in Japan worry about China’s artificial islands in the South China Sea, or can we write those off as well? How about your cousin in South Korea, can he tell us if Seoul really needs to keep…

Yes, the cold war ended decades ago. China is not building islands to claim territory that isn’t theirs, and Russia did not invade Ukraine. Just ask 2012 Obama. LMAO

China with it`s vast regional ambitions is rising and a hopelessly declining Russia is trying to claw it`s way back in to relevancy - high tech weaponry is a must considering how much those two are investing in to countering US.

Best way to beat invading Nazis is to use local nazis.... they have some sort of affinity.

If it’s reported by RT and it’s about Russia or Ukraine, I don’t believe it. Actually, I’ve grown accustomed to reading their headlines in reverse meaning as a way of getting to the likely truth. In this case: Russia Probably Won’t Revive Its Ultra High Performance Alfa Class Submarines. That seems right to me.

That’s the big question of course. I wouldn’t count on oil prices staying low forever though, especially with Russia increasing it’s influence in the middle east. They could be positioning themselves to eventually drive up the cost of oil for their own benefit, either through conflict or just shrewd politics.

The first thing that strikes me is that with world Petro dollars down and Russia spending fair amounts of resources propping up Assad, where are they going to get the revenue for something as expensive as cutting edge submarine technology?

That's exactly what the paper said. I'm not sure why you think I'm being disingenuous. A conflict in the Balkans looks nothing like Vietnam and you know it.