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In chess, a player will sometimes sacrifice some pawns as part of a grand strategy to compromise an opponent’s defenses. Pawns are relatively unimportant pieces, so it’s a good way to get something for virtually nothing.
Russia’s leaders are, apparently, skilled chess players.
Earlier this month, President Barack Obama visited Moscow and signed a preliminary agreement aimed at getting both countries to reduce their nuclear and conventional weapons systems. But the Russians are playing a clever game. The “cuts” they propose wouldn’t actually affect their defenses at all.
Obama has promised that...
Outmaneuvering Obama: Russia's Crafty Weapons Cuts
So 187 of them isn't enough? So how many are? The F-22 is a job programs for Lockheed and why the Georgia delegation is screaming like stuck pigs.
"I spent long enough in the Military to know that there will never be a day that Russia will be trusted..."
Great. So paint a picture for us where the US will need more than 187 F-22s and 1600 nuclear launch platforms in a war with Russia?
"And now we have Korea,Iran, and someday China..."
Korea meaning the DPRK? A country as poor as Haiti? Iran? Or any of these states even in the same universe as the US?
China? A military mostly based on old Soviet platforms of the early...