US Army's last tanks depart from Germany

[Redmage]

You people know the cold war is over right?

[Deleted]

Russia has 3rd biggest military budget and 9th largest economy in the world. Something doesn't add up in your story.

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums...-Russian-fleet

You only have to see how many ships are 20+ years old or stuck in permanent repair or dry dock.

[Cybran]

India is a member of the Commonwealth, they will side with the UK before Russia or China.

http://www.siliconindia.com/news/bus...162-cid-3.html

Bangalore: Boosting their military ties, India on December 24 inked deals worth around $ 3 billion with Russia to procure 42 new Su-30 MKI combat aircraft and 71 Mi-17V5 medium-lift helicopters.


The contracts for acquiring these weapon systems were signed during the 13th India-Russia Annual Summit after talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin in New Delhi.

These aren't Victorian times. India is part of BRICS and looking for its own interests.

As for me. I don't want my taxes going for useless Bases, Nato missions and Trainings that just end up putting a huge bullseye mark on us. The kamikaze attack last year was one too many.

[Theinquisition]

You people know the cold war is over right?

Until the next time.

There is always a next time.

[Catta]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...92D0EL20130314



He should be. China and India are allies of Russia.

Since when is India allies of Russia and China rather than the Commonwealth...

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Until the next time.

There is always a next time.

In the end, they will always kneel...

[Olo]

Russians at the moment have one of the best if not the best special forces ( spetznaz) in the world, competing with Israel, Britain, USA etc. RF army forces are ranked 2nd by ''globalfire''.And that's not surprising considering resources, manpower and rich experience in military. In the last decade they have proven themselves in 2nd Chechnyain war, Dagestan, defence of South Osetia(Georgians on US hammers,fyeah), bloody Beslan school hostage crisis, Nordost and so on and on. So I am not really sure if you are a troll or totally duped and brainwashed hater.
On topic, Americans also should take back their Ballistic Missile Defense from Europe. Peace.

really?

todays special forces need to be more than rabid dogs which is exactly what spetsnaz are.

oh, and the DOD already announced it wasn't going to deploy the next stage of the missile defense in eastern Europe in favor of buffing our Asian defenses. Only problem is we didn't consult or even talk to the Russians about the decision so the kremlin isn't happy they didn't get a political victory and they lost another thing to bitch about.

[Deleted]

Russians at the moment have one of the best if not the best special forces ( spetznaz) in the world, competing with Israel, Britain, USA etc. RF army forces are ranked 2nd by ''globalfire''.And that's not surprising considering resources, manpower and rich experience in military. In the last decade they have proven themselves in 2nd Chechnyain war, Dagestan, defence of South Osetia(Georgians on US hammers,fyeah), bloody Beslan school hostage crisis, Nordost and so on and on. So I am not really sure if you are a troll or totally duped and brainwashed hater.
On topic, Americans also should take back their Ballistic Missile Defense from Europe. Peace.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_...hostage_crisis

At least 334 hostages were killed as a result of the crisis, including 186 children,[7][8] with a significant number of people injured and reported missing.

You are seriously praising them for killing 334 hostages? 186 of them were children for fucks sake.

[Sunseeker]

Since when is India allies of Russia and China rather than the Commonwealth...

For starters, China really isn't an ally to anyone. It has a few puppet-regime buddies in S. Asia, but beyond that everyone else is merely friends of convenience. It's "allies" with Russia because it's "enemies" with America. Russia is no different, it's friendly with who it needs to be but beyond that it's not really anyone's ally. The same can be said of America, I mean, who is America an ally of....that we couldn't really say is actually an ally of America? We like to think it goes both ways, but really the smaller European powers are allies of America. India is coming into it's own and while they are currently a sub-world power, they haven't begun to really extend that influence in the way China or Russia have. Again, India is "allies" with China and Russia for convenience, both are large, powerful nations that are right next door, it's beneficial to be friendly and do business with them. But they're not true allies.

The concept of India falling in line with Russia and China when the "going gets tough" stems from a classical Leninist ideology that India, given it's nature, size, and philosophical leanings, would adopt a Communist-style system, and thus the three great Communist powers would always align with each other. Problematically, this ideology put Russia at the top of the pile...not side-by-side as equals. When China favored Maoism and India took up Social Democracy like much of Europe, the possibility of it becoming a reality was basically killed, though the dream lives on populated by die-hard Communists.

There is no, and never will be any great "Russia-China-India" alliance. The Russians want to be in charge, the Chinese don't need them, and the Indians are too ideologically different to make it a reality. It simply won't happen.

[Flaks]

If he is Romanian, it would be beneficial to allow the US forces to stay in his country, the Romanian forces are horribly outdated.

Oh you have an army?

We have Count Dracula.

[Deleted]

Oh you have an army?

We have Count Dracula.

We have Peter Cushing.

[-aiko-]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_...hostage_crisis

At least 334 hostages were killed as a result of the crisis, including 186 children,[7][8] with a significant number of people injured and reported missing.

You are seriously praising them for killing 334 hostages? 186 of them were children for fucks sake.

Incompetence at its worst.

[Tierbook]

We have Peter Cushing.

you should of played the hellsing card Rich

[Deleted]

you should of played the hellsing card Rich

Hellsing IS Dracula, still got fucked up by peter Cushing though.

[Catta]

We have Peter Cushing.

And Piers Morgan

[Deleted]

And Piers Morgan

Nope, we banished him to the USA, if he comes back the UK he is likely to be arrested for all those phone hacking scandals.

[Theinquisition]

Nope, we banished him to the USA, if he comes back the UK he is likely to be arrested for all those phone hacking scandals.

you guys can have him, hes a hack

[Arlon]

It only took them 22 years. Should have just left them for a museum.

[Deleted]

you guys can have him, hes a hack

You lot were daft enough to give him a talk show, he's your problem now.

[smelltheglove]

You lot were daft enough to give him a talk show, he's your problem now.

we'll remember that when our next kiddie band goes on tour over there :P

[Santti]

After all this time, they were still there? Hell, it's about time they left.