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"Russia Could Ditch Dollar In 2-3 Years"; Deputy PM Warns Nuclear Subs "Could Reach Any Country On Any Continent"
"Two to three years is enough, not only to launch [settlements in rubles], but also to complete these mechanisms," says Andrey Kostin, head of Russia’s second-biggest bank VTB, noting that the possibility of the US and EU widening sanctions to exclude Russia from the SWIFT global money transfer system would become “a point of no return” making any further dialog impossible. However, as Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Rogozin explains in this interview, how Russia's military and industrial complex is responding to a growing threat from America. Russia is not responding with any talk about the nuclear button (at least not yet); but they are preparing for such an eventuality: "we are creating a nuclear submarine fleet... capable of reaching any country on any continent, if [USA] suddenly becomes the aggressor, and our top-most national interests come under threat," adding that Obama's coup has ushered in "the complete demise of the Ukrainian State."
As RT reports, ?two to three years would be enough time for Russia to switch to international settlements to the ruble, Andrey Kostin, head of Russia’s second-biggest bank VTB, said...
The media has reported on the possibility of the US and EU widening sanctions to exclude Russia from the SWIFT global money transfer system.
Kostin said the move would become “a point of no return” and that any further dialogue would be impossible if SWIFT was cut off.
“If you look at Iran’s experience, shutting down SWIFT only happens when all relations; political, economic, cultural, even diplomatic, break down,” the VTB boss said.
“I don’t know how [Western] banks could block SWIFT and then expect cooperation in the fight against terrorism and nuclear disarmament.”
However, replacing SWIFT within Russia won’t be difficult, Kostin said.
“We have a [similar] system at the Central Bank of Russia and others. The Central Bank has tested this system, and we can switch to it at any moment.”
But away from the specifics, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Rogozin explains Russia's Military and Industrial plans in this extensive interview... (via Eric Zuesse)
Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Rogozin, who has Russia's military portfolio, was addressing his nation's public, September 22nd, on Rossiya TV, and he explained how his country is responding to the threat of America's intending to place its nuclear missiles on Russia's border, inside Ukraine (much as the USSR had done in Cuba to America during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis). Russia is not responding with any talk about the nuclear button; at least not yet. There is still time enough to avoid anything so urgent as that. But they are preparing for such an eventuality. (8:50) "We are creating a nuclear submarine fleet ... capable of reaching any country on any continent, if it suddenly becomes the aggressor and our topmost national interests come under threat."
Obama has started clearly in that direction, with his February 2014 Ukrainian coup d'etat installing a U.S.-allied Ukrainian Government to replace the former (and democratically elected) Russian-allied one; and Russia takes Obama's threat seriously; so, Russia is now rapidly updating its nuclear and other arsenals, and is offering technologically advanced military designers from all over the world extremely favorable terms for becoming Russian citizens.
Rogozin also says that (9:23), "by now, we have updated almost the entire fleet of strategic bombers."
All of the military parts and products that were formerly being manufactured in Ukraine, have been switched to Russian factories instead. Now (10:48), "Everything is produced in Russia." He says that many of Ukraine's top military designers have already moved to Russia, and that most of the others are desperate to leave Ukraine.
He comments (12:31), "For Ukraine, it is the end. It is a complete demise of the Ukrainian state as an industrial country. Nobody wants their products in the West because they are outdated, and they [the West] have their own manufacturers. What they [Ukraine] are doing right now is suicide. ... I say this with great regret. I'll tell you one thing: we still had hope at the end of last year [before Obama's coup] that we would be able to remedy the situation [that it wouldn't happen]."
He says: (14:21), "On 21st of February, when a coup was staged, I had to fly to Kiev on behalf of The President [Putin]. [But] I stopped the car at the entrance to the airport, because it was clear that Ukraine was finished" as a manufacturing economy.
He sees manufacturing as the basis for a sound economy. (14:48) "Today, the only choice for them [Ukrainians] is to go into retail trade. But I think they also have another choice: to move to Russia." So: Putin is looking to build Russia's economy on a manufacturing basis, perhaps like China has done.
Rogozin repeatedly invites weapons-designers from around the world to move to Russia. Perhaps Putin takes as his inspiration what happened to the U.S. economy after our country, under President FDR in the 1940s, responded to the fascist threat by means of massive support to military R&D and manufacturing. Perhaps Putin hopes that Russia will become the new America, maybe that Putin will become the new FDR.
The interviewer responds (15:52) "What a strange story is unfolding." And Rogozin continues, "From now on, we will be gathering the best experts in the world." So: that (which also happened under FDR, and continued under Truman) is, indeed, their intention.
As if intending to make his point absolutely clear, he continues: "The Americans used to 'suck out' the best brains from around the world, ... now we are reversing this process."
Discussing France's having gone along with Obama to stop production of France's Mistral aircraft-carrier ships to the Russian Navy, he says (20:45), "The money [from us] is paid, which means that they have to return it with penalties. And ... France is losing not just money, but their reputation as a reliable supplier."
Then, starting at 22:32, he notes that when he first entered the Government (which was at around the time that Putin first became President), he noticed that "our individual businesses preferred to buy micro-electronics in the West," and that they would need "to start the production, in Russia, of all that is necessary." He says "We have already given the necessary instructions" to do precisely that. Obama's action in Ukraine seems to have spurred Russia to do this. Yet again, it is like America during WWII.
He continues immediately to add: "However, what we cannot, or do not have the time to make, we can get in other countries who are in trading partnership with us," mainly the "BRIC" or rapidly industrializing countries, with whom Putin has been building a trading-bloc.
The discussion then goes on to whether building Russia's manufacturing base upon the making of weapons is a sound idea, and Rogozin says (24:34) that among Putin's advisors, "we try not to argue publicly, but on the inside it is all boiling."
He says that Russia's high interest-rates are a great problem for developing manufactures. He makes a stunning admission (24:53): "They [America] are in a much more favorable position, no sanctions, no one prevents them from working; the banking policy [Federal Reserve] supports the industry. We do not have any of this. We are not going to now discuss the reasons why, but those are the facts. This is why the government now is making a decision to compensate for the [high] interest rate for enterprises in the military-industrial complex." Russian sovereign debt will probably soar.
However, Putin has decided "to develop a program to transfer technology from the defense [sector] into civil" manufacturing, so as to reduce the extra economic burden on them. The real hardship, apparently, will go to Russia's consumers. But, then, after the military-manufacturing sector gets humming, "they should be ready to produce similar high-tech products for the civil industry," including, "metallurgy, electronics, composite materials, and much much more."
Secondly, (27:06), "Today, they [Russian manufacturers] have defence contracts, tomorrow they might have less. They need a safety net -- supplies for the civil market." It would, yet again, be very much in the mold of FDR, and of Harry S. Truman.
Perhaps Russia is now learning the lesson that America has now forgotten. Maybe Obama's America will become a spur to Russia -- like Hitler, Tojo, and Mussolini, became spurs to America, in a time that America, evidently, has indeed forgotten, and in which we have become, eerily, the other side.
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Should i be shitting myself more over Putin or ebola?
Neither, don't feed the (gov) trolls.
The market seems to think Russia is just lush in palladium supplies with. Prices are tanking... maybe someone finally figured out those rosy car sales are channel stuffing.
I'm still very long on platinum.
Bitcoin also says a big Fuck You Mr SWIFT
They can and they will.
Ebola is like fire. Each area will keep it's elites and system as the fire rages.
Then what?
It will only take a couple of SLBMs to destabilize Cumbre Vieja causing a massive underwater eruption and a 300 foot tidal wave would result taking out all of the east coast and most of western Europe.
http://rense.com/general13/tidal.htm
Russia would have plausible deniablity and Rothschild NATO would be taken out of the game.
Tim Rifat is a cool dude for wargaming the Rothschild's inevitable defeat. His remote viewing are rides I've given him on board the TARDIS.
/sarc
The US already IS the aggressor.
Where has he been for the last 50 years?
"and he explained how his country is responding to the threat of America's intending to place its nuclear missiles on Russia's border, inside Ukraine (much as the USSR had done in Cuba to America during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis)."
Awful misrepresentation of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Plain and simple. the US was the aggressor then, as now. Is Zerohedge now CIAhedge?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_missile_crisis
In response to the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961, and the presence of American Jupiter ballistic missiles in Italy and Turkey against the USSR with Moscow within range, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev decided to agree to Cuba's request to place nuclear missiles in Cuba to deter future harassment of Cuba. An agreement was reached during a secret meeting between Khrushchev and Fidel Castro in July and construction on a number of missiles sites started later that summer.
ZH is as much a propaganda outlet as any other.
I disagree completely. I see no spin in any of these articles. They seem to state the truth and nothing else. Doesn't seem like propaganda to me. Compare this site to yahoo news and come back and lets talk
Relaunching the K-19 are they?
Should be good for another Hollywood film....
Welcome to 1964 Mr Deputy PM!
US citicenry; Oh yeah? You ain't getting your subs in the middle of Nebraska cause we aint got no oceans you big dumb bears!
Take that!
Putin to Obama:
"My dick's on fire and my balls is smokin',
I'm gonna fuck you and I ain't jokin'."
Gringo just wait until the Russkies log on this board.
While your clutching the family jewels in your sleep.
How nice, the Soviet ministry of information is back, same script too.
I just want the Deputy Defense Minister to know that the interior of BC loves you.
You could catipult at them, some of that dank cannabis you guys produce, that surely would get you a pass...
Obama is looking for a nice large war. A race to destroy the US, nuclear war and Ebola.
Kruschev was mistranslated; he said we will Barry you.
And they did, those crafty commie fuckers.
Now THAT is funny.
Nice joke.
Actually, I was listening closely when Khrushchev made that speech on US TV, in 1957 I believe, and read in amazement the next morning what the pundits said he meant. It was quite clear to me in context that "bury you" was a poorly chosen translation, since his theme was peaceful economic competition. The news media jumped on their own interpretation with a vengeance, and ever since, they, politicians and generations of school books been harping on it as the death threat it clearly wasn't.
Vilification and demonization of the Empire's designated victims is an old and honored tradition. Can you wonder then that Putin speaks in a slow, careful and controlled way? Every speech, every sentence, every word is a potential trap, with Western "got-cha artists" waiting to pounce.
I sat an listened (read sub-titles) to this guy (on the video). I'm really impressed that a politician had such depth in his answers. Of course the show format seems to be a lot of giant softballs that probably were pre-submitted. But this was very interesting and informative.
I haven't heard any American politician talk this clearly in years.
Of course, now that the Ruble is plunging relative to the dollar (and presumably thus also against other currencies) it's perhaps not sucha good idea to be doing settlement in Rubles.
So is silver
http://blog.kimblechartingsolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/commo...
Russia is first a commodity exporter..oh oh.
Sure silver is plunging. So it might be time to stock up on silver bullets against the vampires in the central banks who have been draining people's blood and sweat.
Sovern debt will soar...we can help you with that, sanctions on Russian bond buying in the west.
No soup for you.
So, sell them in the East. China may want in on some 'energy' bonds. You know, backed by something other than 'good faith'.
Good faith...kind of hard to say without laughing.
High interest bonds are risky, worse in falling Rubble environment.
Easy oil is over in Russia, that is why drilling with XOM in the arctic circle.
Without XOM that oil might as well be on the moon.
China could buy bonds on the construction of the pipeline, but they are financing it anyway. Take a bond out on yourself and pay yourself interest on your own money?
All they have to do is let some 'former' Goldman bankers bring them to market for them. Don't sell the steak, and so forth.
Listen.
Calm-the-fuck "DOWN" the the ebola scare nonsense.
Next news should be about the first Ebola caused death on American soil. Countdown has started, but you can relax in the meantime...
Listen Joy,
Not that I GAF, but I hope that "RESEARCH" triangle park, USSA gets "HIT" hard and kills those fuckers in office!
Somebody needs to bring back the sudebaker truck so we can sell trucks in Russia again
Nuke subs with Mirvs, Ebola, ISIS, NWO...shit you cant beat this free entertainment.
The Russians can ditch the dollar in 2-3 years?
F?$% me dead, at the rate that the relationship is breaking down thanks to the clowns in the EU and USA, it might take only 2-3 months if things come to a head.
Only a natural disaster or a plague can unite humanity at this stage because it sure ain't going to be common sense.
2 to 3 years? Guys, comrades, tovarich, grow a pair and get on with it beforevthey est your lunch.
Just back your worthless dinero with gold and then we'll stop laughing.
Churchills second law applies.Govt's never announce strategic stuff in advance.
Only after everything is in place, is it announced.,
I agree, but it's not as if this development is not taking place in plain view of everyone.
Churchill was a War Criminal
all this and Brian Williams is sucking Ben Afflecks dick on national TV!!!
Wilson - I will keep the US out of war.
FDR - I will never send our boys to fight in a foreign war.
Obama - No boots on the ground.
Anytime a candidate campaigns as a peace candidate, war follows before they leave office.
as an empire starts to go down and can fail to feed its hunger, it turns to three things - expanding its financial games, it's military imperialism and finally, turning on its own people. This then accelerates its decline
Then they publish their memoirs on their death bed bemoaning how they got it all wrong, fucked up the world and swallowed several banker dicks on the way down.
Dollars are iust paper scrip, they could actually dump the dollar today, nothing is actually stopping them.
Russia's threats are growing tiresome.
STFU already.
You can always bite an iPad if it gets on your nerves...
Sure sounded like he threw down the gauntlet to the US MIC:
"This is why the government now is making a decision to compensate for the [high] interest rate for enterprises in the military-industrial complex."
So a new arms race, but not for military dominance as before, but for customers. Not sure what else he could say that would threaten US decision makers much more, given the influence feedback loop between the MIC and the USG. Cold War II is only escalating.
Isn't the common narrative around the fall of USSR that old Ronnie outspent the Soviets on arms and drove them to economic collapse (with some help from our friends in Canada to crush gold, so it would seem). Is it too implausible to think that Russia is trying to do the same to us? Yes I know the US is much larger economically, demographically, militarily...
But Putin enjoys advantages: huge resource reserves, and, arguably more importantly, rock-solid support from Russians, which is not to be taken lightly. Russians survived both world wars being fought largely on her land, Stalin, and feudalism that lasted longer than anywhere else in the world. I have no doubt ordinary Russians would back Putin to the hilt if the new conflict was seen as a fight for survival, which it very well may be.
Contrast that with support for Obama. Do you think anyone wants to die for him or our gov't?
America had Nam, Russia had Afganistan, protests have already happened in Moscow. They are not stupid Moscow is nuke first, priority one. When your leader starts yapping up nukes Moscows population puckers.
Huh? Wasn't talking about nuke war, which is why I said Cold War 2. If anyone, even Pakistan with their bargain basement devices, pops off even 1 nuke, I'm all in on Nuclear Winter. There are simply too many different fingers on too many triggers all over the world, and not enough time to think while a missile is in the air. Someone will retaliate, just to be sure that those bastards don't win.
I am aware that Putin has faced large protests against his rule, especially in the cities. It would seem that's a thing that happens in the ex-USSR, but that is another story. Here's a fun graph to show what I am talking about as far as him being popular:
Graph 1
Hasn't really been under 60% approval since he first started. That's a freaking long timeline too, with all sorts of bad news that he weathered.
Contrast that with the US' dear leader (with a Bush Bonus!):
Graph 2
So in the first year, riding the wave of "Hope and Change," with Chris Matthews fellating him all over the airwaves, Obama had higher approval than the lowest dips of the longer Putin era. Since then it has been a shit-show. And America is a much wealthier country, with beaches, hot ladies and football! And Russia doesn't make anything, except way more successful political leaders, apparently. Man, OB is probably jealous.
It was more to rock solid support, I agree with you
15 Years of Putin
http://ozziesaffa.blogspot.com/2014/06/15-years-of-putin-rule-in-one-infograph.html
match that...
a few stupids here at ZH have no idea
Russians are better off than ever
I bet our citiz...er consooooomers can out buy the shit out of everyone else on the planet. We're Numero Uno when it comes to filliing our homes with plastic bananas and...well, more plastic bananas. So, yea, we got that going for us.
As usual, Zerohedge treats every bit of Russian whack-jobbery as worthy of respect. Even the midlest comments from the US and aliies are treated as war-mongering, but when Russians talk about nuclear submarines... no problem!
Does ZH get paid by these guys or what??
Ooooh, the best part was at the end - Just like Hitler and Tojo, Obama is a will spur those oppressed peaceful Russians to action!
My question - will that be before or after Russia helps invade Poland again?
You sound just like the tribal owned media. Why dont you go to Yahoo news and indulge in your fantasies there in all their made up stories.
Ah yes, hating and blaming the Jews. A staple of Internet nutjobs everywhere!
Whatever DID you people do in the basement before your mother got Internet service, anyway?
You're the one that sounds like the basement dwelling type by trolling around.
gtfo and get a life.
Masturbate to photo's of gold plated AR-15's?
hey, wood too.
you know, you truly are an embarassment to your profession. And to think how much Langley pays for such drivel (actually how much I and every other American pays to keep your personal boat afloat). There are so many clever ways you could hide your intentions to mess with commentary here, but no, over-the-top attacks right out the gate. It is a sad, in a way, to see how little we get for our hard-earned bucks. Or maybe its just farmed out work to Israeli high-schoolers (turn that into an anti-semitic remark if you'd like! - certainly apropo your credentials). "heywood2: 4 weeks and 4 days, on Zero Hedge." Pitiful!!!!!!
shut up you kike hasbara troll, it's in the basement you would be hiding if it wasn't for the united states which you control
Are you drunk already? A little early, isn't it?
At least Russia only invaded Poland once.
America has invaded Iraq 3 times in 23 years and for that will be presented with coveted
Maybe you don't get the concept of mutually assured destruction.
In light of:
1) NATO's announcement of a forward base in Eastern Ukraine;
2) Estonia requesting a NATO base;
3) Poland requesting a new NATO base;
4) The ongoing NATO-sponsored proxy war in Ukraine and US-sponsored proxy in Syria;
5) Eastern Europe's ABM shield;
Im pretty sure old Andrey wants Russian citizens (this is in Russian on Russian TV) to remember that Russia has nukes, just in case the US gets the Motherland confused with Iraq, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, or Vietnam. See, those countries didn't have nukes, and the US destroyed them (but not North Korea and their token 2-6 nuke arsenal). Just remember:
"The whole point of the doomsday machine...is lost if you keep it a secret!"
Nothing new about this capability though, they have been able to hit the US mainland with nukes for some time now. Come to think of it, why does EU get a missile shield and we don't?! Bastards.
Possibly because the first stage of a nuclear escalation by russia against usa is to drop a single nuke on airstrip one?
ZH gotta play to their base, all pro russian articles are true and all anti russian are false.
My fave is the number of fuckwits on here who think the plane was shot down by a 30mm gun on a fighter......
putin has no options other than the military, he has no diplomatic, economic or financial power, all he has left is his military, who are worse trained and equipped than the ukrainian army and his nuclear arsenal.....
The oil deal with china was $20 under the spot price and this whole alternative currency thing, it wont be rubles it will be in yuan and a basket of metals, his internal trade markets are minimal and monopolised by the oligarchs which means inefficiencies in supply his resource extraction processes have become heavily dependant on western tek, 5/10 years from now president nemtsov will be doing an apology tour to encourage global business to invest in russia and naturally the BIS will be on hand to provide loans to them as long as they liberalise their markets, its simply how its done in the modern world, not saying i agree with it but russia under putin is pretty fucked and they got him to do it to himself.
The social unrest and splitting up of greater russia as cent asia goes to china's sphere and even belarus applies for trade links with nato, will be presented as the inevitible success of capitalism......
IMHO
When USSA or former USSR nooz is reported, they report it here as it pertains to finance.
Both sides lie. Report it, dissect it. It's not cheering or pandering to a base.
If you're better off reading nothing then read nothing.
You can trust no one Putin, the west had years to put them in place.
[Sun Tzu's agreement is certainly ingenious. He begins by adverting to the frightful misery and vast expenditure of blood and treasure which war always brings in its train. Now, unless you are kept informed of the enemy's condition, and are ready to strike at the right moment, a war may drag on for years. The only way to get this information is to employ spies, and it is impossible to obtain trustworthy spies unless they are properly paid for their services. But it is surely false economy to grudge a comparatively trifling amount for this purpose, when every day that the war lasts eats up an incalculably greater sum. This grievous burden falls on the shoulders of the poor, and hence Sun Tzu concludes that to neglect the use of spies is nothing less than a crime against humanity.] 3. One who acts thus is no leader of men, no present help to his sovereign, no master of victory.
Sheesh. You mean this is what Saddam Hussein would have had to do to remain a sovereign nation? Someone should knock down the Georgia guidestones and arrest Loyd Blankfein.
Wow. even to landlocked Afghanistan?
Obama's action in Ukraine seems to have spurred Russia to do this. Yet again, it is like America during WWII.
In one word "Wow"... The best days are ahead of Russia and the worst are ahead for the U.S. and EU thanks to what we've done just in the last 7 months with Russia's neighbor which crossed the rubicon.
I think it's safe to say there are many at the DoS, DoD and in the Administration saying daily "what the fuck did we just do" after February 21st came about!
Question: How many shylocks does it take to bankrupt what was once the most prosperous and dynamic economy the world has ever seen that will start a nuclear World War if it doesn't get what it wants and how do you fix the problem so that "they" never return?
Answer: Cut your losses and have the best "Night of the Long Knives" party in Washington and Manhattan that would make Hitler blush before it's too late and start over!
Here's another one from the awesome "Vineyard of the Saker", the "Voice of the Russian diaspora":
The Russian response to a double declaration of war
Long, but gripping, essential reading for anyone who really wants to understand Putin's Russia and its struggle with the West.
The third paragraph frames the essay:
"...Russia is now officially in the crosshairs of the AngloZionist Empire which includes not only 3 nuclear countries (US, UK, FR)" [four actually - WW] "but also the most powerful military force (US+NATO) and the world's biggest economies (US+EU). I think that we can all agree that the threat posed by such an Empire is not trivial and that Russia is right in dealing with it very carefully."
I challenge those who criticize ZH for publishing material sympathetic to Russia and hostile to the US/EU enterprise to read this, carefully, try putting yourselves in Putin's shoes and see how the US must look from there, and then reconsider: Does the US pushing Russia ever harder into a corner makes any rational sense, except to a totally emotionally numb global chess fanatic?
vlad/russia has one (1) choice : be prepared to die, or, die.
The K-19 was a 1950's design SSBN that used an improper cooling technique as a primary coolant. The Ruskies have moved on since then; see below,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_submarine_Severodvinsk_(K-329)
Do not make assumptions of your adversary unless you have all of the facts.
Cheers,
2-3 years?... silver could be $1/oz dollar by then.
AAPL will be $700 and FB $400.
Stawks!
/sarc
"we are creating a nuclear submarine fleet... capable of reaching any country on any continent"
sounds like, they didn't had those submarines "capable of reaching any country on any continent" before)))
Thanks wikipedia.
Modernization
Like many Soviet weapon systems, the Tu-160 has struggled to overcome unreliable components and a lack of maintenance during the 1990s. The original systems were faulty and required a complete rework using up-to-date computer chip and circuit systems, so that the aircraft was accepted into Russian service after testing in late 2005.[2][3] The upgrade also integrated the ability to launch a new long-range cruise missile. Although the Russians have over-stated the progress of the modernisation project, it seems to the project has been restricted by limitations of the lack to up-to-date facilities to keep aircraft flying. This resulted in 2006 of the delivery of a new-build aircraft but the "first modernised Tu-160" in July 2006 did not receive new avionics, although they were planned for the new airframe.[3][4][5] The modernisation now appears to have been split into two phases, concentrating on life extension with some communication–navigation updates to start with, followed by 10 aircraft receiving new engines and capability upgrades after 2016.[2] The first refitted aircraft was delivered to the VVS in May 2008; a contract to overhaul three aircraft in 2013 cost RUR3.4 billion (US$103m).[6][6]
Although the phase I update was due to be completed by 2016, industrial limitations may delay it to 2019 or beyond.[7] There is a particular problem with the engines; although Kuznetsov designed an NK-32M engine that improved the reliability of the troublesome NK-32 engines, its successor company has struggled to deliver working units. Metallist-Samara JSC has not produced new engines for a decade and when it was given a contract in 2011 to overhaul 26 of the existing engines, it managed just four in two years.[7] There are problems with the ownership of the company and it lacks finance to build a new production line; it insists it needs an order of 20 engines per year but the government is only prepared to pay for 4-6 engines per year.[7][8] A much-improved gas generator has been bench tested but may not enter production until 2016.[2]
Dhe aircraft employs a fly-by-wire control system with a blended wing profile, and full-span slats are used on the leading edges, with
it's inconceivable the vlad knows not of the incredible rot now afflickin' the body US. easy pickins' truth be known.
Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall (HQ)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5ApYxkU-U (6:00)
There's just no way that Rooschuh can do this alone - but if Russia-China do get really close, and add the rest of the BRICS, then they can put an end to the petrodollar - in 2-3 years.
The key is going to be if the Empire of Chaos soon does something to get China really mad, like it did to Russia - then watch out - the chit is going to hit the fan bigtime.
Aw, come on.
Russia and China are closer than two gay guys on a the big roller coaster at Six Flags.
You can believe otherwise if you want.
not there's anything wrong with that
Yes, Russian nuclear missiles have been a threat for 50 years.
What he is saying is Russia doesn't have a pot to piss in.
He is upset that the NWO knocked on Russia's door and set up a chess board outside. Putin came out to play. While he was spending time deciding what sophisticated offense to use on such a stupid player, the NWO went into his house through the back door. Once inside, they looked everything over and took only those things that made life bearable in Russia.
Putin has no game pieces other than nuclear weapons. China is not going to back his play. Will China set up a domestic competitor? What is all this crap about world class manufacturing coming out of Russia?
...Regime Change... Read my lips...
I read "BS".
Ya, hay China buddy I'm gonna insinerate Wal-mart, are you in?
Judging by the P/L of my short /DX position i would estimate that the dollar gives approximately zero fucks about Russia or anything else; its going straight to the moon.
Russia's GDP is comparable to that of Texas or California.
Russia is nothing, I bet AAPL has more US currency in their couch cushions than Russia has in their whole country.
AAPL can easily lose all its money after a couple years of not selling an exciting new product.
Russia is the biggest country on Earth that has every possible natural resource.
is your assesment of GDP and economic power based on the distorted numbers of the Ministry of liees, sorry Statistics and labour?
We need to see more of you Zero Hedgers volunteering to live in the new Soviet Union Vlad is putting together. C'mon...how bad could it be?
So you have to give up a few freedoms Americans take for granted...at least you'd have a president you could look up to!
A state-controlled media spewing good ol' fashioned Putinism success stories day and night, what's not to like?
Which freedoms? You can protest and all that - the only one is don't criticise Vlad.
You can walk down the street with an open beer in hand, you don't get destroyed in divorce court, men are not criminalised by default, and the .gov stays out of the way for the most part. Everyone who wants one has an AK - so what is missing?
The women are even hotter and thinner and better in bed...
13 % Flat Tax only
http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2003/03/russias-flat-tax-miracle
yeah, amerikan patriot...it would be awful to deny my sons the ubiquitous homosexual propaganda we're free to practice in the good ole ussa. every time those paraders pass by St. Patrick's in all their sodomitic glory, my heart swoons and the ole eye swells with tears. and when putin's goons tried to arrest that poor femen 'activist' for shoving a raw chicken up her ho-ha in a public market...goddam fascist is what he is! we encourage necrophiactic-zoophilia in the ussa. give her a position on an NGO board (not that she isn't already paid by USAID) and an artistic grant from the NEA. it's freedom, doncha know...it's precisely what our Founding Fathers intended. russia's also, apparently, no place for rapacious oligarchs...it sucks when they deny slimy oligarchs the freedom to despoil, bully, pillage and rape the sphere they spread within.
wait...what's that you said about a 'state controlled media'? so-so true. here in the ussa, integrity-obsessed and tough-nosed journalism toils furiously to print the truth and call power out!
your argument's so goddam compelling...hell, i think i'm gonna solicit congress for a bill to ensure that every last 535 of em stay for life -- and that president of ours? i just can't imagine an acceptable amorica without him!
janus
Amorica? How about some High Head Blues? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIvWd5Q4vOo
I'm kinda proud of my current hometown (Marietta) boys, just so ya' know.
My man! U know better than to waste your considerable intellect on the likes of AP. I know it sometimes feels good to vent on an idiot, I'm guilty myself. Thing is, it ain't helpful, little brother. It only stokes their fire.
Putin's Russia team seems a shitload more credible to me than anything the US/EU have put forward lately. Does that necessarily mean I think they are saints? Fuck no! However, whether I agree with them or not, they say what they mean, and they mean what they say. Just like Edgar Cayce said they would, btw.
Those people have been through hell backwards- They know some shit!
The rest of us should listen.
In RUssia some significatnt media are owned by foreigners. And owned by jewish oligarchs dual citizens.
In USA are all controleld and owned by dual citizens, Jews. DO you agree on this?
Soviet was never a Russian construct
From 1917 thru Stalin was never Russians in control
Not one leader was ethnic Russian.
Stalin was Georgian.
Even Krushchev and Breznev were Ukraine nationals
Soviet is defunct
get over it
you got more commies there
better worry about your own country
Reporting the truth, or getting to where it can be found one day, is not cheering for any party involved in the outcome.
outstanding (and under-appreciated) article, TD.
i listened to the entire interview...very impressed with roghozin. it's getting more and more difficult to accuse russia of duplicity when they always speak so candidly. never a bullet point; never a teleprompter; no prepared remarks...just the unvarnished ve-ri-tas. american audiences would be aghast over such candor. the defense minister is highly intelligent, too. we don't have anything approaching that kind of synaptic dexterity in our public realm...not in ANY capacity (except here on the Hedge). it's tragic.
russia's for real, gentlemen.
last nation defending Christianity.
last nation rejecting multi-culturalism.
last nation practicing ethical capitalism.
wonder if they're recruiting world-class thinkers/writers?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxyISsA0Oh0
you don't know how lucky you are boys,
janus
I ain't even gonna click the link, but it goes like this-
back in the US,
back in the US,
back in the USSR!
Well, the Ukraine girls really knock me out,
They leave the West behind!
And Moscow girls make me sing and shout,
And Jo-Jo's always on my,
My-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-ind.
Show me 'round your smoky mountains,
Way down south.
Take me to your daddy's farm.
Let me hear your bala-laika's ringing out,
Come and keep your comrade warm!
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Although history doesn't repeat itself line by line, we know it rhymes.
The eventual consequence of multiple actions being taken against Russia today will lead to Cold War-II. They look a lot like the drip-drip process that happened years ago when Cold War-I was started.
Whatever the history books say about Cold War-I and the relentless Western propaganda drummed into us all at the time, it begs the huge question of "who" actually started that Cold War? "Who" wanted it to happen? Was it really the Soviet Union? Or was it the West persuing imperial policies not unlike those we see today, and the USSR simply took appropriate actions to defend and protect its national interests and sovereignty? Chief among these was to occupy Eastern Europe to provide itself with a buffer-zone in case of Western land attack.
If Eastern Europe didn't like being occupied as a buffer-zone, maybe it should have told Washington and Westminster to back off, get the hell out of Europe and leave the USSR alone. They didn't do that because some of them were in cahoots with the West.
Today, Russia's expansion of its military forces described in this article to protect itself from USG imperial aggression are exactly in line with what any nation would try to do, faced with such a threat. Now, as before, the West will portray these actions as Russia becoming more militaristic and threatening, thereby superficially justifying further USG & NATO encroachment in the region. A self-fulfilling process:
"If you want a new Cold War, you shall have a new Cold War."
Yes, but Russia is much more aligned with 'the rest' of the world than the Soviet Union was. We may be in the midst of a new cold war, but this time, our adversaries are better preprared, and it could go hot, at a moment's notice.
those russian guys show a difference between a jewish muppet in congres or senate and a real rational politican, having in mind his country (and of coures is pocket as well) and not having in mind the Tel Aviv interests.
First thing I would do with those new weapons, I would really export those high class and high end weapons, including blueprints for the nuclear bombs, to everybody in the world. and then let those idiots on the East Coast deal with it. with 200 countries arround the world, who will be keen to destory the US.
you know, US is ranked 30+ in education across all the worlds countries, yet any american, no matter how red their neck is, seems pretty fucking smart as soon a russian is heard speaking.
"we are creating a nuclear submarine fleet... capable of reaching any country on any continent", im going to hope retard means that missiles launched from the sub are capable of reaching any country on any continent and that retard doesn't actually think his submarine fleet is capable of crossing continents. but even in that best case interpretation of his words, retard doesn't realize that this capability is a function of the missiles attributes and not a subs, or realizes that both the USA and russia have had the technology to hit a target anywhere on the earth from any other point on the earth for a couple decades.
"if [USA] suddenly becomes the aggressor", where has this guy been for the last 70 years? the USA has pretty much been the only aggressor on the world stage since the end of WW2. i bet this tard will also be surprised next time Ellen announces she muches carpet. "[if pigs are suddenly incapable of flying]".
"and our top-most national interests come under threat", .. whoa relax there, americans have trouble handling 4% alcohol beer, i'm sure your vodka is safe.
A far more important issue than who is smarter is that if either of us fail to hit our target it would not matter. In the case of a full blown conflict both countries will have thrown enough toxic shit near it that it will finish it off.
You make some reasonable points, but this one is ridiculous:
"the USA has pretty much been the only aggressor on the world stage since the end of WW2. "
Looks right to me.
According to the Admiral in charge of the U.S. Navy, the new Russian submarines have better stealth
capabilities than ours, as they put one in the Gulf of Mexico for 2 1/2 months UNDETECTED!
They can go up to the mouth of Potomac and launch, eliminating DC in 4 minutes!
http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/12/new-russian-submarines-silent-u-s-navy...
A struggle is occurring to unseat America as the worlds most dominate nation. For many proud Americans who see the United States as having a right to be in control it is both threatening and frustrating to see that control slip away. It is threatening to think the country might quickly fall to the position of a second rate power mired in debt with many of the options we have come to see as our right suddenly ripped away.
It is frustrating that in many ways the country has become its own worse enemy guilty of political inaction and squandering its power through a series of bad choices and missteps. A major concern has been the shift of power and wealth to the East over the last several decades. More about that shift and how we should face it in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/06/americas-struggle-to-stay-on-top....