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Submitted by Zachary Zeck via The Diplomat,

Russia has announced that it will increase defense spending by some 18 percent this year despite its worsening economic outlook.

According to a report in Jane’s Defence Weekly, the Russian Federal Treasury announced late last month that “Expenditure on National Defense” will rise from 2,101.4 billion rubles ($58.2 billion) in 2013 to 2,488.1 billion rubles in 2014. This is projected to be about 3.4 percent of Russia’s GDP but over 20 percent of government spending. Another 16.5 percent of the government budget will go to national security and law enforcement.

By contrast, in 2010 defense spending only accounted for 12.6 percent of total state spending while defense and security only accounted for about 25 percent compared to the nearly 37 percent of spending they will make up in 2014. Jane’s notes that spending on “education, housing, social care and healthcare will all fall” as a result.

The increase this year follows what some estimate to be a 31 percent increase in defense spending between 2008 and 2013. Moreover, Russia intends to continue expanding its defense budget in the years ahead. According to the Jane’s report, the Russian Federal Treasury anticipates the defense budget to grow by more than 33 percent over the next two years. Thus, according to current forecasts, by 2016 the Russian defense budget will be around 3,378.0 billion rubles ($95.6 billion).

The rapid increases in defense spending are not unexpected. Indeed, Russia began trying to modernize its military forces in 2008, around the time of its war with Georgia, and announced a decade-long military rearmament program two years later. Under this rearmament program, Russia intends to spend 23 trillion rubles ($723 billion) over the next ten years to modernize its armed forces. The goal is to achieve a 70 percent modernization rate by 2020. Russia’s conventional military power rapidly deteriorated following the collapse of the Soviet Union, forcing Moscow to increasingly rely on its nuclear arsenal to meet its national security needs.

Before assuming the Russian presidency for a third term, Vladimir Putin laid out the case for Russia’s military modernization in an article in Foreign Policy magazine. In the piece, Putin argued that given the current international environment, “Russia cannot rely on diplomatic and economic methods alone to resolve conflicts. Our country faces the task of sufficiently developing its military potential as part of a deterrence strategy. This is an indispensable condition for Russia to feel secure and for our partners to listen to our country’s arguments.”

Nonetheless, it’s far from clear that Russia will be able to meet its military modernization goals given the darkening economic outlook for the country. Already, the massive military rearmament program has elicited significant criticism from certain sectors of Russian society. With a worsening economic outlook in the short-term due to Western sanctions, and in the long-term due to Russia’s excessive reliance on energy exports, it’s quite likely that the ambitious modernization goals set out for 2020 will not be realized.

 

 

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Tue, 04/08/2014 - 22:12 | 4637874 TeamDepends
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We will Barry you.

-Krushchev

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 22:14 | 4637883 knukles
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Now it all makes sense.
Nikita, Barry, Ukraine, the collective "we"...

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 22:30 | 4637924 Fortunate Fool
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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"

 

It seems that Vlad forgot that military spending brought USSR to its knees... It can spend as much as he wants now, the country will pay dearly for it later.

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 22:39 | 4637956 666
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It's not how much one spends on the military, it's what one does with what one has. Russia invaded and occupied Crimea practically overnight with virtually no casualties on either side and minimal expense. Imagine what would have happened if the USSA invaded Crimea: massive air strikes, tens of thousands dead and wounded, many friendly fire deaths, $50B spent in the first month or two of an extended conflict, etc.

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 22:54 | 4637995 markmotive
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The less Americans know where Ukraine is, the more they want US intervention

 

http://www.planbeconomics.com/2014/04/the-less-americans-know-where-ukra...

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 22:58 | 4638019 SafelyGraze
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warspending by foreign countries will never ever make us overextend our own debt

ever

you can count on that

hugs,
ronald reagan, restorer of the gold standard 

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 03:23 | 4638458 Wile-E-Coyote
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Yes; iron fist in a velvet glove.

America itches to use its weaponry when in most cases the threat would be enough. The long term problem with this is you show adversaries your capabilities and they can prepare accordingly.

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 04:54 | 4638506 Lebensphilosoph
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Russia did not 'invade' or 'occupy' Crimea.

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 13:09 | 4639792 dizzyfingers
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666

Yep, would have been expensive!  http://rasica.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/cia-silver.jpg

 

 

 

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 00:05 | 4638180 Antifaschistische
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I'm not going to pretend I even have a theory about what's going on....

...however, the "Art of War" ....IS the "Art of Deception".

I would be surprise if Russia was making it look as if they were increasing Military Spending just to suck the US White House in spending more, and accelerating the implosion/bankruptcy of the US.   Barry wouldn't see that coming.

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 00:30 | 4638229 CrashisOptimistic
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Sigh.

Military spending did nothing.  Oil price fell when Alaskan oil arrived on the markets that killed Soviet revenues.

As for this new military spending, not particularly difficult a thing.  Just get oil up $10/bbl and get Ukraine errr the EU to pay Ukraine's gas bill and it will all be paid for -- by their enemies, and how much more genius can you get.

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 01:11 | 4638283 MrPalladium
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The babble in the article about opposition from "significant sectors" of Russian society is obvious BS. Putin's popularity is at an all time high. The only ones bitching are employees of CIA front NGOs and Soros NGOs.

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 10:05 | 4639009 tonyw
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Putin has a good understanding of his standing within Russia, e.g. gay marriage - when/if the population changes its mind he will also change his view.

Of course all of this does not make him a saint, just someone standing up for the interests of his country (which may or may also be his interests:-)

This babble is just to convince the sheeple, look he's a real bad guy we just have to do something about it.

Never mind the psychopaths the US is supporting, they don't even get reported on in the MSM.

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 12:45 | 4639692 dizzyfingers
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Fortunate Fool

And so will we, and we're stone broke. 

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 22:12 | 4637875 MeMadMax
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They increased spending long before ukraine or any other crap. 

 

They have a bunch of rusted metal for a navy so they decided it was time to paint that shit....

 

^.^

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 22:20 | 4637893 Aussiekiwi
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Right, and recent American actions have given Putin all the justification he needs to present to the Russian people for why they must if necessary endure some hardship to enable Russia to defend itself again, nice one.

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 00:32 | 4638231 CrashisOptimistic
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As I pointed out above, this is no stress at all.

An oil price increase of $10 and gas paid for (finally) will fund it all.

 

How much more smart can you get than having your military spending paid for by your enemies?

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 22:13 | 4637877 knukles
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So if Roosha rearms its a drag on their economy.  If America rearms its fiscal stimulus and jobs

Makes sense.
Calling Paul Krugman

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 22:36 | 4637945 NoDebt
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Damned good point.

I guess it's only stimulus while you have the "world's reserve currency" and can print up whatever you need to fund it.  Otherwise, it's a drag.

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 23:04 | 4638045 james.connolly
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Once upon a time in MIC, white hair-lips engineered stuff @NASA, ...

Certainly since Eisenhower's time on the USA was a MIC/PIC ( military/prison insdustrial complex)

But post 1980's white kids don't code, now its all done by asians/russians,...

So the high-tech mil/pic must now steal its technology.

Study TRIFFEN DILLEMA this is all spilled out being RESERVE CURRENCY doesn't make you STRONG, in its ZEAL to owning the WORLD the USA has ended up having nothing.

This is why Russia/China don't want to be RESERVE-CURRECNY, they  just want to OWN all the GOLD, thank you very much.

>>>

 

I hate to peat and repeat, but it appears that some still don't get the TRIFFEN-DILLEMA in its simplified form.

A reserve nation must ...

1.) Export its jobs and thus kill/control its own citizens

2.) Force the world by gun point to trade in its reserve, thereby pissing off the world and murdering world citizens

Being reserve currency, and the ability to create INFINTE FIAT for free, should in the mind of a MORON make you strong and have the best shit, ... but as clearly seen here the USA ranks bottom in all, intelligence, music, science&math,...

Sure a Reserve-Currency means that bankers are billiionaires, and cops/mil are millionaires, but that doesn't make a 'civilization', it only makes  a PRISON.

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 23:28 | 4638111 Anusocracy
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+1

" but as clearly seen here the USA ranks bottom in all, intelligence, music, science&math,..."

WWII and the reserve currency gave the US a huge advantage through a brain drain vis a vis the rest of the world. That will be winding down and the US will approach the idiocracy event horizon at an even faster rate.

Also, the reserve currency status has an effect on the economy similar to giving food aid to countries in need - it undermines the domestic production of food. Luckily for the farmers, it's only for a few years, not the decades the US has had the reserve currency.

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 01:09 | 4638277 james.connolly
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That's been Jim Roger's THESIS forever that the FARMER's will be rich, ...but honestly,

Let's play this thing out, once the FIAT goes ZERO the MIL/COP's will be stealing from the farmer's, also much of little people farming is now gone, and its all CORP AG BIZ, which are the guys controlling the cops/mil.

Certainly when the USD collapses food becomes dear, ... but I'm not really sure what 'farmer' means anymore sadly in the USA.

I don't know how far  you are from 'farming' I myself own a few farm's, and I can tell you that most are owned by CORPORATIONS, and not by little people.

Sure if the SHTF then the little people will have no choice but to go live in the bush, and 'farm' until they get kicked off by the MAN.

Also with FARMING in the USA, much of the water table is gone, most timber is gone,  most of the top-soil is gone,

This is NOT your grandfathers america.

 

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 01:10 | 4638282 TheReplacement
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Don't forget the Russian arms industry.  If they want to keep selling versus having countries like China develop their own weapons they need to have a demonstration.  MIC is MIC, bankers are bankers, politicians are rats, and it's all just business, nothing personal.

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 22:19 | 4637889 ramacers
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the russians (people) know their stalingrad (ww11) looms ...

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 22:24 | 4637903 Againstthelie
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Where is the criticism that USrael spends more than the next three or five biggest military spenders combined?

Isn't Zeck Jewish?

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 22:36 | 4637923 socalbeach
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Zachary Zeck is Zachary Keck.  Don't know his ethnicity/religion, but he seems like a pseudo-intellectual tool.

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Zachary Keck Curriculum Vitae

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 13:02 | 4639077 fallout11
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More than the next 13 combined, as of last year:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2013/01/4A8078449E794...

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 22:25 | 4637904 sangell
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Its not just money, more than ever technology matters in military gear. It used to be the USSR would go to great lengths to acquire through espionage, western technology only to find by the time they had reverse engineered it and placed it into their military kit it was obsolete. They are probably going to be reduced to trying to steal technology again as the West places sanction on military and dual use exports.

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 22:32 | 4637929 Againstthelie
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You seem to have slept the past ten years or so.

USrael is the regime that spionages against "friends" and robs all industrial, military and privacy data and transfers it as fast as possible to it's ruling nation.

It is not even capable to build a functioning jetfighter anymore.

And if the Russians would not shoot them up, the master stealers of the world would simply starve to death in the ISS.

 

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 22:38 | 4637953 NoDebt
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That's an ECONOMICALLY VIABLE functioning fighter to you, mister!

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 22:49 | 4637978 james.connolly
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USA/ISRAEL can create INFINITE FIAT for FREE, but all they have to show for it is little tokens of virtual reality called "USD" that has no legal tender value to the real world.

You would think by be reserve currency masters of the earth that the USA would be the ones OWNING the ISS, but not,

The sad truth is that MONEY and FAUX FIAT doesn't BUY PASSION, or LOVE, or BRAINS, it only buy's an FSA (Zombie Nation).

So now Israel/USA are stuck with 100's of millions of FSA Zombies on the DOLE, and they have to steal CHINESE technology (FREESCALE KL-02), just to be in the game.

Fucking pathetic,... so after killing +100 MILLION people to make the USD what it is a CURRENCY of DEATH, ... what do they now have to show for it? NADA

Even buying the MALAY's to look the over way during the first 7 hours the MH-370 went missing the USA/ISRAEL had to pay in GOLD, as USD is not longer accepted even in COVERT-OPS.

Fucking Pathetic.

Tell us DIPLOSHIT, .. what is your next move, other than cheap demonizing the opposition, and complete failure to look in the mirror?

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 23:56 | 4638161 Anusocracy
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The US is also using Russian RD-180 rocket engines for the first stage of the Atlas V.

Russia has had better rocket engine technology for decades.

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 00:58 | 4638266 sangell
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That's going to change and soon. In fact it was a big selling point by Space X in its testimony before Congress. Ridiculous for us to be subsidizing the Russian space and rockey industry.

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 22:32 | 4637931 Ralph Spoilsport
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"Remember russian pilot Victor Belenko who defected to Japan in his MIG-25 Foxbat fighter back in 1976? U.S. military officials were stunned when they examined what they thought was the most advanced fighter jet in the world. The Russians, it turned out, were still using old-fashioned vacuum tubes instead of state-of-the-art transistors and computer chips. For all their vaunted military reputation, the Soviets seemed incredibly backward. Eventually though, it dawned on the Americans that the Soviets had figured out the old tubes would be less vulnerable to the electro-magnetic pulse of a nuclear blast than some newer components. The MIG-25 fighter was equipped with thousands of miniature vacuum tubes, and most of them are still available, since the russians literally made millions of them for military stock. Data of these tubes is pretty hard to find on the web, because the cyrillic transcription of their numbering is not consistent. Kindly people here in Europe have collected them, and some can be found at Elektronikinfo or at Franz Hambergers Röhrentabellen. Any preconceptions against russian quality? Look: These tube were designed to work in a combat fighter even at a nuclear bomp drop. Or ask an audiophool for the reputation of the russian 6C33 power triode, the one which was used in the MIG's power supply."

http://www.keyboardpartner.de/hammond/t-mod-skill4.htm

 

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 22:42 | 4637961 james.connolly
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This is crazy shit all of us rock and roll muscians know that TUBE-AMPS rock, and transistor amps suck dick.

Russians know music, ... the Western folks only know noise, static, and DIPLOSHIT.

 

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 22:50 | 4637982 Ralph Spoilsport
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All hail the 6L6GC. Unless you are into Marshalls that is.

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 23:03 | 4638042 sangell
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F-4 and our 'century series' fighters had vacuum tubes too back in the 1960's. The F-4 carried no guns either but it was decided to equip it with 20 mm cannons to make it better able to dogfight with MIGS. Unfortunately the recoil shock of 20mm cannon fire was tough on those vacuum tubes so solid state electronic became essential. Seems to have worked as the Israelis shot down ALL of the 90 or so Syrian Migs over Lebanon with cannon fire from their US built fighters.

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 01:14 | 4638291 Kirk2NCC1701
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These days, tubes are also a lot harder to hack than digital tech.

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 12:08 | 4639526 dizzyfingers
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Ralph Spoilsport  Maybe the new budget is about manufacturing millions more of these? Ominous...

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 07:55 | 4638658 flapdoodle
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Fortunately or unfortunately, technology has been comoditized in the past twenty years, and in some areas what is developed commercially is likely better than what the MIC has (high volume computerized anything for example - the MIC has a tendency to make things overly complex and/or have too many tasks shoehorned into one weapon system - good examples being Bradley fighting vehicle, or the F-35.This complexity makes roll out take a long time and expensive to change if technology leaves parts of a weapon system obsolete)

What folks forget is that the Russians/Soviets had big problems getting high tech gear thirty years ago and had to do stuff from scratch, which lead to two different outcomes: really clever use of what they had (the good), and poor copies of Western stuff (the bad).

In some cases though, their copies were better than what the West had come up with - an example being their copy of the B1)

By a coincidence of timing, the ex-Soviet arms designers/manufacturers have had access to a huge swath of technology from materials to computers - I suspect they have put this technology to good use, all the while maintaining the design discipline for which Soviet weaponery is known, resulting in weapons that are relatively simple, cheap, and very effective.

Who knows...maybe heavily hardened Sony PS2 motherboards power the Iskander for example...

 

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 22:28 | 4637912 DarthVaderMentor
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Putin is doing Obama just like Reagan did Gorbachev.

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 23:19 | 4637954 813kml
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Do you mean up the anal sphincter without lube?

If so, then I agree.

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 01:19 | 4638297 Colonel Klink
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So in other words, Obama has Putin right where he wants him!

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 01:29 | 4638313 813kml
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It might get painful shortly, but for now he's just Putin in the tip.

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 01:19 | 4638298 TheReplacement
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Disagree.  Reagan and Putin sort of have similarities.  Obama and Gorbachev, not so much.  I believe Gorby tried for a soft landing to protect the people.  The cold war was ended.  Obama appears to be petal to the metal and nosing over into the Grand Canyon deliberately.  Evey concievable bad ending scenario looks like a strong possibility now.

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 01:44 | 4638325 813kml
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The Cold War ended in name only, the tactics shifted to financial rape and pillage by the West.  Gorbachev was too trusting in Western promises, and Obama is too trusting in American exceptionalism.  The short bus was already close to the cliff, but Obama hubris and blunders allowed Putin to jump in the driver's seat and put the hammer down.

Different circumstances but the result will be the same:  Empire collapse

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 01:55 | 4638339 Two-bits
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Right you are. Russia has always been the enemy.  NATO's very existence is reliant on Russia being the enemy.  

 

Your -ism is worse than our -ism.

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 06:15 | 4638546 eurogold
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+1000 Spot on 813 !

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 22:30 | 4637916 navy62802
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Because they don't give a shit. How do you defend against someone who doesn't give a shit?

I say just wait it out. But we all know that American politicians cannot be that rational.

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 22:37 | 4637918 Dr. Engali
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I knew this was a mother pathetic piece from the diplomat just by the title. Russia's military expenditures are a drop in the bucket compared to what we spend. We spend more in ine year than Russia plans on spending over the course of the next ten, and Zack wants to pretend like Russia is the threat.

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 22:37 | 4637949 YHC-FTSE
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Jinx. You owe me a coke (with some rum please). :)

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 22:46 | 4637974 Dr. Engali
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You're on. I'll take mine with some Crown Royal.

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 22:49 | 4637980 NoDebt
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Putin knows he can't out-spend the US or out-technology the US.  So he's applying pressure where we are weakest- ground forces (with substantial anti-aircraft capability and the "great nullifier" of a nuclear deterrent). 

Ukraine is his demonstration of this.  We'd LOVE to go to war there and push Russia out, but he knows we will not.  No political will and no justification for boots-on-the-ground conflict.  If we thought we could kick over Ukraine like we kicked over Grenada back in the 80s, you can be sure we'd do it in a cold minute.  So he presents the credible threat of an ugly, protracted ground war.... exactly what's needed to back us off.  He forced us into exactly the situation we didn't want to be in.  It worked.  

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 01:20 | 4638300 Colonel Klink
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Oddly enough I don't seem to fear the Russian government.  I fear my own government much much more!

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 02:02 | 4638348 Two-bits
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Using easy numbers, lets say the USSA spends $10,000 for every Ruble that Russia spends on defense.  

In the next year, how much more will that one gold backed ruble buy than those 10,000 units of inky fabric?

 

You're argument is valid as long as the $ is the World Reserve Currency, and we are both in agreement that it won't be for much longer.

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 22:30 | 4637921 YHC-FTSE
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I had a bet with myself this would be another zippity zionist zeck effort when I saw the headline.  This fucker will not be happy until everyone is killing each other. If he isn't inciting fear , paranoia, and hate, he must not get paid in shekels.  What a complete fucking worm of a creature.

Of course he forgets to mention that all this is peanuts compared to the Pentagon's budget. How convenient.  

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 13:11 | 4639113 fallout11
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Zeck is correct on one account, that the Russian military has been engaged in a strident top-down-dictated modernization effort since the war in Georgia back in 2008. Putin personally directed the last spiral, beginning in 2009. The Russian military establishment is extremely conservative and old fashioned by nature and there were significant pushbacks, delays, and compromising, but a lot of progress has been made in the last 5 years, even at the grunt level. New uniforms (first use of mixed synthetics by the Russian army ever), new helmets, new body armor, new loadbearing gear, restructured lighter and more rapidly reactive battalions replacing the old garrisoned-in-place regiments, better food, revamped barracks, wider use of weapon mounted optics, new IFV's (BMP-3's) etc. A lot of the waste and corruption formerly endemic within their military has been crushed, sometimes openly (to generate support for the reforms and make examples). 

Compare the troops seen in Crimea today vs those in Georgia in 2008, night and day difference.

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 22:49 | 4637940 813kml
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Sigh, more Diplomat propaganda from Zachary Dreck.  I suppose it will be easier on the recruiting drive if the unwashed masses think the Commies are chucking spears from horseback.  Not sure it will help, I don't think there are many military-age men under 300 lbs nowadays.  Maybe they can all be drone "pilots", they won't even have to leave mommy's basement.

As an aside, was the unnecessary remake of "Red Dawn" a couple years ago merely coincidental?  The original was watchable but not that great, hardly begging for a reboot.  An example of the Hollywood propaganda machine turning out more patriotic fear-schlock?

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 00:35 | 4638235 CrashisOptimistic
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He's a kid who makes no money and knows nothing.

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 22:34 | 4637941 are we there yet
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Putin wants domestic popularity, he will not invade east Ukraine. The body count would destroy his domestic image.

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 22:37 | 4637948 james.connolly
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Does anybody know if Zachary, or anybody at DIPLOSHIT actually read's ZH? If they do, here's a question for our experts at DIPLOSHIT.

We IRISH would like to to know, how the "Repubic of CHINA" aka TAIWAN aka USA colony, feels about 200+ dead Chinese mainlanders that TEAM-DIPLOSHIT has murdered? What's it feel like to have so much blood on your hands?


>>>

Murder of 250 CHINESE/MALAYSIANS in Broad daylight and the Unicorns say “Never Mind�. Boeing uninterruptible autopilot could have taken over this plane anytime, post 2011 all boeing aircraft were converted via the post 2007 ruling to adopt anti-terrorist technology. Nobody needed to blow up the plane. The plane contained crew from the Freescale Semiconductor who would need to be debriefed to get passwords. KL-02 was going to Israel. The plane was carrying UKRAINE GOLD to be used to BUY the MALAY government. The Plane carried a CIA/TALBEBAN drone sold to CHINA, to keep CHINA quiet.

>>>

 

This story puts all blame on USA, when in fact its a MOSSAD/CIA operation to create a COUP in MALAY to destabilize their government. MALAY waited 7 hours until the plane landed in diego garcia, before they called it in as ‘lost’, that is telling that they were involved, they should have reported the plane lost at 1:30am. CHINA is silent, because blood is on their hands. Malay is silent same. USA is acting stupid, because that the nature of the USA to be Israel’s stupid female dog.

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 23:08 | 4638062 Rock On Roger
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They flew to Diego Garcia, dumped the special cargo then sank the plane in the deep.

If they can kill buildings in NYC then a simple plane in the Southern Ocean is no problem.

 

Stack On

 

You know, marduk amen ra god and his buddies...

 

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 22:38 | 4637952 ebworthen
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The way the U.S. is going with it's rampant hypocrisy and theft by Wall Street and Washington, besides raping the Constitution and the rights of individuals, may be very bullish for Russia (eg. - expatriation to Russia).

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 22:41 | 4637959 Son of Captain Nemo
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So Zack (The Dick) Zeck...

Just how is it the U.S. will double it's defense spending budget to absorb all those new GDRs that will be needed to protect the 900 to 1,000 military installations assets worldwide and at the same time maintain and grow of course the service and repair to all those aging 2nd Generation aircraft and ships the Navy and Air Force will need in it's "front line defense" on the borders of Eastern, Europe, Asia and the Middle East in the wars of choice it will again be initiating here shortly?

Certainly aren't going to complete the task with the Almighty USD?

Sure hope the poppy fields in Afghanistan and the oil fracking here at home can pay for all the jobs and taxes that go with it that we've outsourced to the rest of the World that won't be able to pay for the military we will need to fight in those next set of World Wars.

 

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 22:45 | 4637972 earleflorida
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moar 'red herring'... please

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 23:22 | 4637983 SgtShaftoe
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Well yea, they've been snubbed as not being the next currency emperor (China).  What would you do?  They're only being rational.

 

Though this is all a misdirection from the END of the nation-state as we know it. 

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 23:00 | 4638029 Pairadimes
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Putin will need to manufacture a steady stream of enemies in order to ensure support for this ongoing level of investment. Lucky for him, the US happens to have the most strategically inept gang of foreign policy makers in the history of western civilization ready to bend over and assume the position.

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 00:37 | 4638236 CrashisOptimistic
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No he doesn't.

Wake the fuck up, people.  All he has to have is a few dollars more per barrel and he can spend whatever he wants and get his fucking enemies to pay for it.

This isn't the 1970s.  Or the 1980s.  Or the 1990s.  This is the era of scarcity, and what little of it there is -- THEY HAVE.

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 23:04 | 4638047 Jack Burton
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This spending level hides the reality that Russia gets much more bang for it's dollar than the USA. Personel costs and benefits, haelth care and pensions are threatening to eat up the entire defense budget as the large professional military ages and nears retirement, this also adds to costs for new personel as replacements. Russia has a much leaner personel cost structure, this simply means more money goes for real weapons. And the weapons do not have all the built in costs of the bloated corrupt US system.

While Russian spending levels are a joke compared to the USA levels. They get a much more productive return for each dollar. Add to that that Russia is a mainly defensive force prepared to fight on home territory without the cost of empire, again, in this sense, Russia gets huge benefits in real defensive military strength. Will the USA tries to hold 1/2 of planet earth in it's empire.

So, America can prevail anywhere and everywhere, except if they attack Russia on it's own lands, or borders, then the multiplier effect of Russia's internal lines of communication and purely defensive weapons trump USA invasion potential.

The lesson here is, don't go into the bear's den and bait him, you might not come out.

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 23:35 | 4638123 Rock On Roger
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And Russians fight harder than bears,

And they can still fly to space...

Americans can only hitch a ride.

 

Stack On

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 00:02 | 4638176 yogibear
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Barry wants to put his efforts into Obama phones and EBT cards.

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 00:03 | 4638134 813kml
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All good points, except I would argue that US spending levels are a joke compared to Russian levels.  You are right that US military spending will have to increase even more just to maintain current operational readiness, but that may be impossible with the quickly unfolding deals that threaten dollar hegemony.  That's what scares me most, I think US empire is close to the point of use-it-or-lose-it regarding its military toys.

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 02:31 | 4638400 q99x2
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In the age of globalism it is OK to be an ex-patriot. Myself I'm headed to the UC system close enough to get under Napolitano's desk when the SHTF. I figure she's got one of the safest places in the US. When you look out and see those mushroom clouds think of me and Janet under the desk. Hope she has a big desk. Maybe we'll be under the conference table.

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 23:46 | 4638142 Manipuflation
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On an analytical basis you are correct Jack as you usually are.  You forgot one thing though, how many guns do private American citizens have?  No one really knows but the number is enormous.  Yes, we know that many Americans are worthless but not all of them are.  There is a damned good reason why you do not see Blackwater in the streets here and that reason is because they do not want to die young.

The other lesson to note is, don't shit in your own nest.  

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 00:18 | 4638207 Libertarian777
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don't worry, our weapons are so advanced (and expensive) by 2050 we will only need (and can afford) 1 military fighter. (not type... literally just 1 fighter).

The Airforce gets to use it during the morning, the Navy during the afternoon and the Marine Corp during the evening.

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 01:31 | 4638316 TheReplacement
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Bet they forget to put in a cupholder again.

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 02:14 | 4638369 I Write Code
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Absurd, Jack.  You really think there are no rent seekers in Russia?

Probably 65% of any defense budget is sucked off directly by Putin his own self.

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 13:29 | 4639891 dizzyfingers
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Jack Burton

Going to require drtoiud US population reduction pretty soon. CIA funding pig- and bird-virus research in Asia?

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 23:47 | 4638143 Haager
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Ramp up spending when economy is worsening - and it simply stays within their borders, that's from the 1x1 handbook. And about the 'cuts' on socials and education: afaik they're shifting priorities within these sectors not actually cutting nor increasing the budget.

Tue, 04/08/2014 - 23:47 | 4638145 yogibear
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Don't underestimate the Russians. Hilter did and his skull ended up with Stalin.

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 00:11 | 4638194 Joe A
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Ho ho, wait there. Only America has the right to high defense budgets.

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 00:16 | 4638201 Libertarian777
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HOLY SHIT

They spending $723 billion over TEN years! that's almost as much as the USA! USA! USA! spends... in one year...

 

oops.

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 00:28 | 4638223 Manipuflation
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No, we(THEY) spend more than that per year but your point is duly noted.

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 02:06 | 4638354 Blizzard_Esq
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Labor is a lot cheaper over there. The US spends most of its budget on the 4+ million military people in civilian and military positions under the Department of Defense. 

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 06:54 | 4638584 1stepcloser
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Their NSA doesn't have to listen to everyone...Just the gays ...way cheaper.  

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 00:26 | 4638217 Manipuflation
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Meanwhile, back in the Statist states we have some of this...  Is this real?  I have a really bad feeling it is real. 

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/police-shoot-kill-man-watering-lawn-family-awarded-6-5-million/

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 00:33 | 4638232 franciscopendergrass
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Vlad, comrade. Don't do it, man.  Back away from the military expansionism.  Remember the USSR.  It didn't work.  Back away from the printing press.  Stop using the printing press to expand the military.  You don't want to end up like the USSA.

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 00:39 | 4638240 CrashisOptimistic
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Most of that military spending will be on a giant thumb and forefinger.

He'll use it to close the spigot just slightly.  Then he'll get $130/barrel, paid by his enemies, drained from his enemies, while his people stockpile food (no, not gold, food).

In the meantime, his enemies will be in freefall from that price. 

Why worry about tanks when you have a spigot?

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 01:33 | 4638318 TheReplacement
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Where does Russia get its food?  How about China? 

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 06:28 | 4638559 Incubus
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WHO RUN BARTER TOWN, BITCH???

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 00:50 | 4638253 kurt
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I'd like them to spend enough to drop one on "The Diplomat".

Zeck DOD shill

Blammo!

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 01:20 | 4638301 BullyBearish
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They don't need an economy to support military overspending...they can do what we do...just print it into existence

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 01:25 | 4638307 Kirk2NCC1701
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<--- ZZ Top
<--- ZZ Diplomat

Of course ZZz is also an appealing alternative.

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 02:12 | 4638364 Debugas
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Russians preparing for the upcoming WW3

It is the same as right before WW2 - Germany and Russia devided Poland but were preparing for the upcoming war, this time it is Ukraine which is being devided but the war is on the horizon anyway

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 02:21 | 4638384 q99x2
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Feed Putin dark chocolate, blueberrys, coconut oil and pomegranite juice. Then Russia won't need a military.

Actually they don't need anything other than nukes enough to cause the earth to go dark and they already have those.

The guy that writes these articles is posting them here for his CIA job application.

Move along.

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 02:29 | 4638395 Nehweh Gahnin
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Tyler, why do you gve this CFR wannabe hack space on here?

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 04:50 | 4638504 james.connolly
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USA 2014 Worse than Stalin Russia say's PCR

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/04/08/cia-made-dr-zhivago-weapon-pa...

Tyler's should run this .. great blogger fodder

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 04:58 | 4638514 foxenburg
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One thing I haven't seen much is recognition that global warming (man made or otherwise) ought to  benefit Russia with zillions of acres of what is now marginal becoming prime agriculatural land with longer growing seasons.

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 07:10 | 4638599 AdvancingTime
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If this happens it will be a plus for much of the Midwest and Canada as well and be a disaster for coastal regions. Below is a list of the worlds ten most crucial problems counted down from "least to most crucial"  The world must begin to address these many problems with long term solutions. Most of these are issues that center on our sustainability. Sadly, politicians do not deal well with such things leaving us without direction. The issue you comment about relates to several of our greatest problems.

http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-worlds-10-worst-problems.html

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 05:05 | 4638517 james.connolly
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Tyler's discover #1 POST in the world

http://www.globalresearch.ca/disappearance-of-malaysian-airlines-flight-...

Them Tyler's got to give them credit, for finding this material, and posting it instead, of bullshit from the diplo-shit.

>>>

In this post the MALAYSIAN GOVERNMENT demands answers from OBAMA, and tell's  the MSM to go fuck itself.

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 05:16 | 4638525 james.connolly
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Diego Garcia, sit's right next to the deepest hole in the Indian Ocean.

The atoll is just to the west of one of the deepest parts of the Indian Ocean.

>>

Well now you know where they ditched the MH-370.

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 06:14 | 4638544 A_Nejad
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It's pretty simple and easy for them to raise the budget by whatever percent, since they'll now easily increase the export of their military hardware to countries e.g. Iran, Syria, and "friends".  They don't need to play by American playing rules anymore, so I dono, S-300 or 400s heading somewhere?  Although, in all fairness, their military budget is marginal (at best!) compared to US spending, even after this "increase".  I don't think those darn "Irish" are very happy about all this Ukrainian development now, but hey, hurray for double citizenship

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 07:17 | 4638609 AdvancingTime
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Please note; Building weapons creates jobs and economic growth even if it is the "wrong kind of growth." Back in the middle of 2012  Putin pledged to strengthen Russia’s economic and political ties with China after skipping a Group of Eight summit in the U.S. the month before. This unholy alliance between Russia and China may create major problems for America going forward. For more about this meeting and the implications see the article below.

 http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2012/06/putin-strenghtens-ties-with-china...

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 07:39 | 4638641 22winmag
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Russia's scariest missle is the one the flies underwater.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shkval

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 09:25 | 4638881 Mr.Kowalski
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Wrong.. this missile can sink Carriers, has a range of 300 miles and goes at Mach 3 speed: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrahMos

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 09:52 | 4638954 Cthonic
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mach 7 hypersonic variant under development

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 10:58 | 4639232 22winmag
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Small payload and not invulnerable to CIWS.

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 08:31 | 4638742 esum
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hey folks listen up:

USSA percent of global defense spending  FORTY THREE PERCENT

RUSSIA ...............................................            THREE PERCENT

CHINA .................................................            SEVEN PERCENT

feel like we got it covered....???????

 

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 08:36 | 4638754 NoWayJose
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The only ones talking about the collapse of the Russian economy are the ones pushing for sanctions. Russia will be able to pay for their military spending increases by raising energy prices to the EU. Meanwhile, the US is trying to block fracking, off shore drilling, arctic exploration, and pipelines. And the US is shrinking its military but is still using its credit card to pay for it.

Excellent points by others about the US spending huge mounts all over the globe while Russia sits quietly (for now) at home.

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 11:59 | 4639481 dizzyfingers
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Reagan's plan agian...it worked before. Bankrupt USSR. Of course, that door swings both ways... or maybe all ways and could be simultaneously.

 

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 12:42 | 4639641 dizzyfingers
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CIA-written article? Let's scare every USA sheep to death so they'll vote for more war/death/destruction of the planet and our own country? Ignore the USSA "military" (black-ops) "defense" budget? Get real. When we get our own house in order, then let's worry about other countries. No US kids fighting on non-US territory. Spend our defense budget for mutually-agreed-and voted problems inside our own borders.

Wed, 04/09/2014 - 16:02 | 4640558 kianator
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I would love to be able to trace the origin of the I.P. addresses on Zero Hedge comments posting. Associates of mine say the same thing when they browse ZH:   During heightened geopolitical tensions you see increased comments  from users more likely coming from outside of North America,, somewhere east of Polish border.  China's PLA has thousands of cyberwar people just trolling chatrooms and websites spreading disinformation or anti-western commentary.  The same applies to Russia's cyberwarfare intelligence organization.

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