Russia Plans Increase in Weapons Spending/Modernization

[Julsey]

I hope I typed this correctly.  For some reason, I can't copy and paste links. 

 

http://cnsnews.com/new/article/russia-holds-biggest-war-games-decades

 

 

[Joey]

The link says page can't be found.

[Julsey]

Sugar.  OK.  Well, let's try this again....

 

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/russia-holds-biggest-war-games-decades

[Joey]

Hmmm...getting ready for the Great Day maybe.

[trottigy]

"It's quite obvious that the land part of the exercise is directed at China, while the sea and island part of it is aimed at Japan," he said.

Khramchikhin, who recently posted an article painting a grim picture of Russia being quickly routed in a surprise Chinese attack, said that the war games were intended to discourage China from harboring expansionist plots.

"China may now think that Russia has finally become more aware of what could happen," he said, describing the exercise as a sobering signal.

Edited July 16, 2013 by trottigy

[trottigy]

Interesting, I didn't even know there were problems between Russia and China.

[Jordan]

Konstantin Sivkov, a retired officer of the Russian military's General Staff, told the daily Nezavisimaya Gazeta 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 have a dispute over a group of Pacific islands, which Russia calls the Kurils and Japan calls the Northern Territories.

The islands off the northeastern tip of Japan's Hokkaido Island were seized by Soviet troops in the closing days of World War II. They are surrounded by rich fishing grounds and are believed to have offshore oil and natural gas reserves and other mineral resources.

China and Russia are good with each other, at the moment.

But forget not whos running the show - anything can happen.