Is this why Putin’s approval rating is +80% in Russia for the last 15 years? Please. Putin runs an authoritarian regime, but he is widely popular too..

Russia doesn’t pose a threat to the world.

You’re an economist?!?

No shit. That’s why if you understand ANYTHING about politics you know that BOTH main parties are filthy corrupt organizations. The problem is, no one does corrupt and dirty politics as well as progressive liberals. Liberalism is a disease of the mind. Other parties are almost close to being as corrupt, but don’t come…

Well, I don’t need special animations to understand the cost of war. According to modern day historians, about 3.5 million of Germans invaded USSR in 1941. About half million were lost, as killed, wounded, or prisoners. They were replaced, so by the end of 1941 about four million German troops were involved in the…

Hillary doesn’t really matter... the Democrats won’t do anything to update the arsenal because they have to keep their peacenik base happy. The Republicans won’t do much because they spend the effort invading other countries. Different reasons on the different sides, but the end result is the same- these things aren’t…

Yes, I agree. The only reason there hasn’t been a war between the major powers after WWII is because of nuclear weapons. If you study history, the stretch of time from 1945 up to 2014 is actually probably the most peaceful in all of Europe’s history. Except for the Balkan wars of the 1990s, there hasn’t been any other…

And who can blame them? Its a sound strategy when you consider that MAD makes peer state conflict unthinkable, and a modern navy isnt particularly useful when you’re driving a few tanks into the Crimea. Russia Can keep flexing their muscle inside their own sphere of influence all they want, and those nukes make it…

Oh those liberals.

Yeah Tyler definitely takes at face value everything he’s told by his sources in the defense community. If they say something is the Greatest Threat to Our Freedoms, that’s reported uncritically. He seems blind to the (honestly not very well) hidden agendas of these types.

Ladies and gentleman, this is how slimey a modern liberal is. Did you suck Obama off before or after you made this comment?

That makes sense.

Globally respected? Ha! Best joke all week.

Russia (post-USSR) always placed the top spending priority on its nuclear forces, then air force, land force,and then everything else. As a result, they kept updating missile systems, strategic submarines, etc at the time when the Russian navy is a collection of floating antiques.

Of course he is. And Russia didn’t announce this purely for propaganda. It’s also to let foreign countries who possess nuclear weapons aimed at Russia know ahead of time that test launches will occur. Closer to launch time, the appropriate authorities are informed of the upcoming launch, so that when a satellite…

Your comment is very informing. At times, I wonder if Tyler is just playing on our fears.

None of that means we need ten thousand tanks sitting in the Fulda Gap or Europe and America are doomed.

This isn’t alarming news at all. The eight they launched last year were out of a total 14 planned launches. In 2014 they planned 16. Here is a chart showing this. Planned are in blue, launches are in orange. I predict 2016 won’t be any different.

Russia’s nuclear forces are the single most important part of their military, and will always get full funding. A good example of something flashy is the Admiral Kuznetsov. It's the Flagship, but they don't put much money into it at all.

Thats the point. You only need a handful to accomplish your goals. Each missile can carry many warheads for many different cities. Show up with a handful of missiles and you have annihilated most of your enemies.