Russia holds biggest war games since cold war

[ChineseTiger1986]

Right...keep thinking that.

Well, isn't USA supposed to have by far the strongest air force and navy?

You guys don't have to worry anything from China and Russia.

 

[Prechko]

Why every time Russia , China and perhaps Iran stage military drills raise almost semi-hysteric reaction in media and lengthy discussions about purpose , we now what militaries do between staying in the barracks and garrisons.

Last year , about the same time Russia has conducted similar exercise on Sakhalin-Far East only on much smaller scale , nothing unusual.

 

[Ulysses]

Russia should stay out of any war.... there population is low as it is

 

[LiberalAtheist]

Well, isn't USA supposed to have by far the strongest air force and navy?

You guys don't have to worry anything from China and Russia.

Nope not at all.

 

[Prechko]

Russia should stay out of any war.... there population is low as it is

Population stands at 143,400,000 souls , that`s not "low" population.

 

[PWFI]

This exercice has nothing to do with China, it's aim at NATO

 

[Arzamas 16]

Russian Military Starts Stage*2 of Extensive Snap Check | Defense | RIA Novosti

 

[Aka123]

Russia Holds Massive Military Drill Aimed at China, Japan

Russia is holding its biggest war games since the era of the Soviet Union in its Far East region that borders on China, Japan and Korea.

President Vladimir Putin ordered the snap drill on Friday when he told the Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu to inform countries like China that border on where the drill will be held. It is the third such snap drill to be held by Russia since Putin reassumed the office of the presidency.

Putin has praised holding snap drills as the best way to demonstrate combat readiness.

According to Russian media sources, “160,000 servicemen, 1000 tanks, 130 planes and 70 ships” are participating in the drills, which will continue through July 20.

A statement released by Russia’s Defense Ministry said: “The main purpose of the activities is to check the readiness of the military units to perform assigned tasks and evaluate the level of personnel’s training and technical preparation as well as the level of equipment of units with arms and military equipment.”

Many Russian officials emphasized that the participating troops did not know their final destination or explicit objective at the beginning of the drill, in an apparent effort to make the games more realistic.

Officials also emphasized that the military drills were not aimed at any particular nation(s), but rather just geared towards enhancing the readiness of Russian combat troops.

This seemed to be called into question on Tuesday when Putin himself visited troops participating in the drill on Sakhalin Island, which is just north of Japan.

A retired Russian general told the BBC that “The Sakhalin part of the maneuvers was intended to simulate a response to a hypothetical attack by Japanese and U.S. forces.”

Russia and Japan dispute the Kuril Islands, albeit since taking office Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has made a valiant effort to settle this dispute in order to direct both sides’ attention to China’s rising military might.

Similarly, Alexander Khramchikhin, whom the BBC describes as an independent Moscow-based military analyst, told the UK broadcaster “the land part of the exercise is directed at China, while the sea and island part of it is aimed at Japan.”

As this suggests, the drills illustrate just how fraught Russian-Chinese relations remain despite the recent notable improvements in certain areas, like energy and military cooperation (last week Russia and China held their largest joint naval exercises.)

In particular, many Russian officials strongly suspect China of trying to mount a long-term annexation strategy over Russia’s Far East, due to the large number of Chinese immigrants who have populated the area in recent years. Other countries, notably the U.S. in the 19th Century, have used similar strategies to expand their territory.

As Vassily Mikheev, deputy director of the Institute of World Economics and Politics (IMEMO), part of Russia’s Academy of Sciences, told the American scholar David Shambaugh in 2009:

“Anti-Chinese feelings are very strong [in Russia] and changing. There is a feeling that China wants to conquer the Russian Far East. In the past five to six years, these primitive anti-China sentiments are being joined by new anti-China feelings based on a fear of economic threat.”

Russia Holds Massive Military Drill Aimed at China, Japan | Flashpoints | The Diplomat

 

[longyi]

^^^ Divide and conquer strategy by The Diplomat.

Otherwise it doesn't make sense....Russia and China just had a sea drill to show of force against the US and Japan.

 

[LiberalAtheist]

I doubt Putin would actually attack Japan but he's showing that all 3 of the Russian armed forces are not idle and obsolete as they thought they were, I've heard about the Russians upgrading their Mig's and Sukhois just recently to expand their combat life which could be seen as a benefactor as all those fighters can form a backbone for the PAK FA and that so called "stealth bomber" they are building.

 

[KAL-EL]

Well good for Russia then lol Honestly don't see the big deal. Many countries have "war games" Seems like anytime one has them, it gets ultra hyped here. Like its a real war or something. Like its supposed to scare people. No amount of war games changes the MAD scenario.

 

[vostok]

Somebody here forgot about the Sino-Soviet border conflict a couple of decades ago. What was it about again?

border issue has been resolved. And again I repeat - with China can be dealt with because it does not have the habit to bomb the country and bring it back to the stone age in order to plunder the natural resources.

 

[Prechko]

Today 2nd stage begun in Tsugol polygon , Zabaikalski krai

 

[Oldman1]

Well, isn't USA supposed to have by far the strongest air force and navy?

You guys don't have to worry anything from China and Russia.

Yep we don't have anything to worry about it. China should not be concerned. Its not like Tom Clancy's scenario The Bear and the Dragon.

border issue has been resolved. And again I repeat - with China can be dealt with because it does not have the habit to bomb the country and bring it back to the stone age in order to plunder the natural resources.

At least not yet.

 

[Tshering22]

Why China? Did China bombing nations to steal their oil and gas? Nope. It is NATO's method.

Вы спросите: "Почему Китай?"

Потому что они считают, что то, что не может быть выиграна миль, может быть завоевана в дюймах.