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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (405555)8/10/2008 4:56:52 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (3) of 1574076
 
"Bush sat next Putin during the opening ceremonies......apparently they are still close. Isn't that grand?"

Were they holding hands?

It briefly looked like things might calm down. But then it escalated again. It could be that Putin is going to put reconstructing the Soviet Union on front burner. Georgia and Ukraine are the most likely first acquisitions.

Now would not be a bad time for Putin to push the issue. We can't do anything, and this isn't really a NATO issue. So any sort of military response is out of the question, not that it really was on the table in the first place. We can't put economic pressure on them, nor can anyone else. And there really isn't a lot left. Oh, we can stamp our feet and bluster but that is about it.

Even supplying Georgia with weapons isn't going to be all that effective. From what I've seen, the tanks the Russians are sending are outfitted with reactive armor. That means that the outside of the tanks are covered with explosives. So when it is hit with a shaped charge weapon, the explosives distort the charge and render it a lot less effective. In other words, Russia is sending their top of the line stuff. They aren't just sending what they could. And that likely applies across the board.

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It is not clear whether they have anything that can defeat the more recent Russian equipment. Most of what they have is what they retained when they broke from the Soviet Union. Granted, we have trained their forces, but it isn't clear how much we have supplied them with. Ukraine, no doubt, is about the same.

So they won't be able to do much.
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