300million to rebuild an aging aircract carrier is “big money”?

Russian Navy placed a contract to order something like 50 Mig-29K.

They demanded a billion for rebuilding the ship, and later another billion. I believe the costs of air wing was not included in those contracts. Indians still argued this wasn’t a bad deal because nobody else would sell them an aircraft carrier for approximately 2B.

On PPP-adjusted basis, the Russian GDP is close to Germany’s and nearly twice the size of Italy’s. See the CIA world fact book, or the world bank figures.

Russian military is now a mixed force with less than 300,000 out of its 750,000 personnel being conscripts. Some branches, like the Russian Northern Fleet will no longer rely on conscripts at all.

Please shut up. UK is no longer a member of Europe.

The Nazis would have been defeated by the USSR, with or without the American help.

One reason why most of Europe may not pay two percent of its GDP for defense is because its global objectives aren’t as robust and far-reaching.

Peace.

Indeed. We have military bases in Korea and Japan. American servicemen all over Europe and the middle east. And yet, scores of illegal aliens can cross our borders any day, and we don’t have enough icebreakers to cover for some kind of an emergency in the Arctic.

I don’t care about those damn icebreakers. We don’t have millions of illegal immigrants crossing the border of Alaska through the Arctic sea. On the other hand, these crossings are happening a lot on the USA-Mexico border. Not only people cross the border both ways, but also guns, drugs, and whatnot. But the American…

I suspect that the issue here is that the military contractors have very little gain in this endeavor, and that’s why there is so little lobbying in this regard. It’s far easier to order more F-35s or aircraft carriers.

Terrell is posting while drunk as usual, so he has trouble hiding his russophobia in this state.

Trump’s wall is estimated to cost between 20 and 30 billion USD, which is between 1/20th and 1/30th of Pentagon’s annual budget. Considering that the “wall” actually serves the purpose of securing the USA borders, as opposed to Pentagon’s policing the rest of world and doing actually very little to protect the USA…

Compare the size of the Russian Arctic coastline against Alaska. Of course, Russians will need more ships.

Almost nobody is crossing the border illegally from the coasts. Makes sense?

Every statement you make is wrong. First of all, USSR did not lose the cold war. USSR was never defeated. Instead, the Soviet leadership simply decided to end this engagement because it was not worth it. The big problem with the way the Gorbachev administration handled the end of the Cold War is that he basically…

Yes, I am an RT troll because nothing I post checks out with any published sources on the history of Ukraine or Russia or USA. Why don’t you go read something before you post gibberish online, you tool?

You are right to notice that this post is not about Russia bashing. However, if you look at Terrell’s post history, it’s hard not to see a ginormous Russia bashing and xenophobia. This particular article is just a part of the Russia scare going on. The whole thesis and the supporting arguments of Terrell are flawed…

Trump’s position on Russia has always been to normalize the relations of Russia. That doesn’t mean to support Russia or to condone what Russia is doing. Trump’s position is that it’s entirely mad to start a new Cold War in Russia over a spat in Ukraine, a country where the USA has been stirring up the pro-west…