Russia is nowhere near a superpower – Swedish economist

[OldenWisdom...قول بزرگ]

Next time either he should either lead the way or devise plan on how Nato takes Crimea back.

 

[Hashshāshīn]

Western drivel.

Russia was waiting for someone from Sweden for ratification of its superpower status.

Point of fact. As long as Russia remains the only nation on earth that can obliterate the United States, it will continue to share superpower status.

And that is not going to change in the distant future.

Russia can not 'obliterate' the United States, not even close.

 

[IsaacNewton]

Russia is not the superpower that USSR once was.

Russia doesn't have the industrial power of USSR, nor the scientific and technological power.
It doesn't even have the sphere of influence over eastern europe, central asia, and various communist state that it once had.

In terms of military power, USSR had the largest air force and tank force in the world. It could probably fight all of western europe in a conventional war to a stalemate. Russia on the other hand would get decimated.

But make no mistake, in terms of nuclear weapons, Russia and USA are the only true nuclear superpowers that can flatten the earth 20 times over.

 

[doppelganger]

Russia can not 'obliterate' the United States, not even close.

At last count, even post the SALT treaties, each country still maintains close to 10,000 nukes each. For the size and yield USSR/Russia has (as does the USA, though some of the Russian thermonukes are way bigger - proven demonstratedly bigger), and at the standard 3 nuke per city nuclear targetter algorithm (replace city with hardened targets, civilian installations, dams, power grids, rail grids, communication grids, silos, command centers, etc.), do the math ......

But make no mistake, in terms of nuclear weapons, Russia and USA are the only true nuclear superpowers that can flatten the earth 20 times over.

And that really remains the crux. Push if you must, but not beyond where I let you.

So the US wages its wars around the globe and Russia watches on.

And the Rusian bear emerges from its long winter sleep, and starts gathering up its cubs which went astray, and the US watches on.

Europe menwhile grumbles and shits in its pants. But aside from that and looking longingly across the pond, there is nothing much else Europe can do were Russia to really get pissed.

 

[kakathiya]

Russia is nowhere near a superpower – Swedish economist

Politics
Sunday 05 april, 2015, 11:52

Russia is nowhere near a superpower – Swedish economist
The arguments that, as a superpower, Russia can have some geopolitical claims on Ukraine, hold no water, a renowned Swedish economist and Peterson World Economy Institute researcher, Anders Aslund says, Novy region reports Apr. 5.

Russia’s GDP is merely 2.9% of the world one and 6% of those of NATO countries.


Russia’s defense budget is 10 times lower than that of the NATO countries, Aslund points out.

“Why should Russia be allowed to place itself above the law even if it doesn’t qualify for a superpower?” Aslund asks the proponents of Russia’s “special geopolitical role.”

The expert also questions the assumption that Vladimir Putin bases his decisions on rational grounds.


“Putin is wrapped up in the belief that US special services are behind all revolutions in the world. Accordingly, Ukrainians could not have toppled the corrupt Yanukovych regime on their own.


It takes a complete paranoic to think so, the expert concludes.

then they should be presented a hydro bomb,and steam roll that country

Russia is not the superpower that USSR once was.

Russia doesn't have the industrial power of USSR, nor the scientific and technological power.
It doesn't even have the sphere of influence over eastern europe, central asia, and various communist state that it once had.

In terms of military power, USSR had the largest air force and tank force in the world. It could probably fight all of western europe in a conventional war to a stalemate. Russia on the other hand would get decimated.

But make no mistake, in terms of nuclear weapons, Russia and USA are the only true nuclear superpowers that can flatten the earth 20 times over.

then why is America desperate to run away from Afghanistan, and you ran away from iraq with unfinished job, no guts to send ground troops to fight ISIS, where is the super powers of the Americans, Americans rant about fighting AELIANS

 

[Hashshāshīn]

At last count, even post the SALT treaties, each country still maintains close to 10,000 nukes each. For the size and yield USSR/Russia has (as does the USA, though some of the Russian thermonukes are way bigger - proven demonstratedly bigger), and at the standard 3 nuke per city nuclear targetter algorithm (replace city with hardened targets, civilian installations, dams, power grids, rail grids, communication grids, silos, command centers, etc.), do the math ......

And you think US doesn't have capability to shoot down missiles from midair? Russia has no foreign bases, which means they'd have to fire from their own soil. Which means Russian missiles can take upto an hour to reach US.

US has bases in Turkey and eastern Europe. The can hit Russia in under 10 minutes. That is too fast to react, unless Russia has automatic systems which I doubt.

 

[doppelganger]

And you think US doesn't have capability to shoot down missiles from midair? Russia has no foreign bases, which means they'd have to fire from their own soil. Which means Russian missiles can take upto an hour to reach US.

US has bases in Turkey and eastern Europe. The can hit Russia in under 10 minutes. That is too fast to react, unless Russia has automatic systems which I doubt.

Russia has SSBNs. And what is the fly time from Kamchatka to CONUS? 1 hr?

Please ......

 

[vK_man]

And you think US doesn't have capability to shoot down missiles from midair? Russia has no foreign bases, which means they'd have to fire from their own soil. Which means Russian missiles can take upto an hour to reach US.

US has bases in Turkey and eastern Europe. The can hit Russia in under 10 minutes. That is too fast to react, unless Russia has automatic systems which I doubt.

Russian ICBM's will reach US targets in 25-35 minutes. SLBM's fired from Boreis in 6-10 minutes if launched from near US coast.

And Russia has an automatic nuclear launch AI system called Perimetr/Dead hand ,a sort of Russian Skynet which will come online if the Russian president or the general staff is killed a nuclear attack.

 

[xuxu1457]

Ukraine is becoming a failed state, follow the Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria.....
Ukraine has too many foolish Politician on the world, EU and Russia all need Ukraine， Ukraine has chance to balance every power and get what she want as a country, but foolish Politician invited every big power into Ukraine and let the country become a war field

 

[metronome]

US has bases in Turkey and eastern Europe. The can hit Russia in under 10 minutes. That is too fast to react, unless Russia has automatic systems which I doubt.

Systema "Perimetr"

Dead Hand (nuclear war) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[ashok321]

No country can become a superpower without a hard currency.
And Russia is far from it.

 

[A1Kaid]

To put things in perspective, Russian economy is 1/10th of the U.S., and it's GDP is roughly the same as Texas.

 

[Tshering22]

To put things in perspective, Russian economy is 1/10th of the U.S., and it's GDP is roughly the same as Texas.

You mean to say 1/10th of Texas' indebted economy which collectively is owned by China.

Russia is nowhere near a superpower – Swedish economist

Yes, but it is also the only energy rich country that can hold on its own against a NATO invasion of 'democracy and freedom'.

That's the reality. Russia doesn't want to be a superpower. It wants to just ensure its safety and influence in its neighbourhood.

No country can become a superpower without a hard currency.
And Russia is far from it.

The only way for Russia to do that is develop into a war economy, threaten oil/gold/resource exporters to sell their products in Russian roubles or face toppling and replacement using assassinations, murders, coups, fake revolutions and outright invasions.

Russia is a very unrealistic in the geopolitical situation.

It just a matter of time before Russia became an isolated country.

Backwater and Bankrupt.

In what way is it unrealistic?

They didn't initiate Ukrainian crisis.

They didn't invade Syria or train the terrorists FSA.

They didn't fund and create Taliban and Al Qaeda.

They didn't invade Vietnam or Cuba or Columbia or any other LATAM nation.

They didn't use agent orange against anyone.

Now Russia is trying to secure its own immediate safety and its own region and suddenly it becomes unrealistic?

FYI sanctions from 58 countries isn't isolated; it is just targeted. The world has more than 200 countries in case you didn't know.

Russia can not 'obliterate' the United States, not even close.

It can if it is attacked.

USA and Russia still have the MAD policy.

Ukraine is becoming a failed state, follow the Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria.....
Ukraine has too many foolish Politician on the world, EU and Russia all need Ukraine， Ukraine has chance to balance every power and get what she want as a country, but foolish Politician invited every big power into Ukraine and let the country become a war field

You really think that Yatsenyuk and Turchynov are actually Ukrainian nationalists? NO they are just implanted puppets who run an illegitimate regime that is killing east Ukrainian population who are simple, peaceful people wanting to simply lead their lives as a small peaceful country.

 

[Hasbara Buster]

Next time either he should either lead the way or devise plan on how Nato takes Crimea back.

Not even in their wildest dreams is it possible to take Crimea back. Also, it would have been a real disaster for world peace if Crimeans hadn't joined Russia. NATO is the biggest threat to world peace. Read the Wolfowitz Doctrine, the PNAC, the NWO and Oded Yinon strategies. They are complete lunatics hell bent on total world domination at all costs. They also have a nuclear first-strike doctrine.

Do you people ever read Washington's own official policy papers and reports published by their most influential (mainly hardcore NeoCon fanatically Zionist) "think tanks" ? They want to completely and aggressively control and dominate every corner of the globe, including the oceans, the space, the world's natural resources, water and seeds (food). They are not shy about it, it's not a secret.

Anyway, a couple of Iskander missiles up his Swedish a.rse would probably change his mind as to whether Russia is a superpower or not.

 

[JohnyD]

And Russia has an automatic nuclear launch AI system called Perimetr/Dead hand ,a sort of Russian Skynet which will come online if the Russian president or the general staff is killed a nuclear attack.

that's interesting, worth reading more about it...