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Old 13-11-2014, 04:26 AM   #31
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Such a non issue being made into something because its Russian. You think Obama goes anywhere without some military might in tow? Vladdy was just named the most powerful man in the world again and for all the "ha ha Russia is nothing because apparently its 1920s now their definitely one of the worlds superpowers.

Was hilarious when Abbot made that minor "threat" to shirt front him though, Putins a 6th degree black belt in Judo, 6th degree karateka and an accomplished Sambo practitioner, Abbot would have been thrown and had something snapped in seconds.
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Old 13-11-2014, 05:20 AM   #32
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He's a world leader of a super power, just like Obama he has to bring his toys as well. I for one like how Abbot had a little balls about him and said what he did, don't forget we had Australians on that plane. It's not so much how powerful Russia is, it's more Putin is a loose cannon. Like if they stir him too much he just might push the button, and no body wins once nukes and radiation hits.
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Just Putin strong arming, trying to make Abbott sweat a bit. Ol' Mother Russia having a bit of fun...

If Russia were serious about sending a country into nothing ness, they could do that from the comfort of the Kremlin...
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Where's "Cheap" when we need him. He'd have an answer to all this...............
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Old 13-11-2014, 08:15 AM   #36
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Ultimate ****ing contest. What a waste of time.

Dont even get me started on G20...have these fools never heard of Skype? Its still free FFS.

All we need now is some radical to scuba out and blast one of those ships and watch the poo fly!
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Russia may have been number two from 1945, but it wouldnt even make it in the top 5 military powers these days (barring the nuclear arsenal, that just about everyone has these days anyhow).

It makes alot of money from oil, gas, mineral exports, but even when prices were great (and they aint been too good lately), the government found it hard to pay the bills. It has a population that has shrunk 4% in the last 20 years, and is expected to decrease another 35%
in the next 35 years. A male life expectancy of just 65. Just look around your home, or anyone elses home, and see if anything comes from Russia.

Vlad has simply had to resort to what North Korea does, when no one is taking notice of it, flex its muscles.

Russia population 142 million, gdp is $2.1 trillion. Australia population 23 million, gdp is $1.6 trillion. The country can barely be classed as a first world country.
Russia has been moving to become a better place to live for it's people over the years and is on target to become better and the USA has fallen badly and is on target to become even worst for it's people the way it's heading.
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Old 13-11-2014, 08:57 AM   #38
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I'm looking around my house, I'm not seeing anything that comes from Russia but I'm also not seeing anything that comes from Australia either bro.

Russia might not be so powerful and mighty but Europe isn't saying no to their LPG thats keeping them warm in their winter
your house was built in Australia with mainly Australian made products mate - just cause you can't find the little map of australia in a circle on things (which by the way is mostly used these days to detract from the fact that the product in question is actually owned by some big american conglomerate) does not mean that nothing in your house is Australian made.

I agree with the comment comparing them to north Korea - yeah they probably do have better technologies than we think they do but not too many people are willing to fight for nothing - the majority of russians live in poverty and its such a massive country that it has internal factions that would certainly hinder the homeland whilst most of its military were deployed.
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They should be docking in Brissie & having a open day, love boat diplomacy!

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Meanwhile in Ukraine, i love how Russia are still denying they are there. One thing they gets points for is sticking to there guns, they are intent on denying it. The rest of world wont do squat to help Ukraine, they are all too scared of Putin, and rightly so. There are 100% confirmed cases of over 1000 Spetsnaz special forces soldiers in Donetsk, and yet nothing is reported on it. Australian media is a joke, read some proper news like AlJazeera or BBC world.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe...633235624.html

This garbage in the news about this fleet coming is a joke, he always does it when he travels abroad, so do the other big powers. He even lets it dock sometimes and allows tours on the ships.
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As long as Putin can continue to use Siberia as one giant Slurpee, resource flavoured, keeps his 50 billion+ hoard of assets everything should be fine. I`d be more interested to know how far behind both Russia and China are in the Asteroid mining race.
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Abbott stop these boats!!!!
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Keep them away from the southern states until my XR8 is built and delivered. No risk to our factories, just in case.
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Poke the Bear... send a sub and some ships to meet them
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Send a couple Barbie boats out and put on a good feed for them.
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Some ships did go out to meet them.
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if one of the Kirov Class ships were coming id be on a plane to Brisbane tomorrow to have a look!
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4 ships. One a support tanker/oiler, one a tug boat and two war ships.

Kind of takes the shine of a show of power when no-one south of the equator would resupply your ships and you have that little confidence in your fleet, that you bring a tug boat along.

I'd like to see a Putin/Abbott showdown. Putin may be a black belt, but Abbott's a boxer and if he chucks on his budgie smugglers, he'll have Putin distracted enough to drop him. ;)
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Yes and those ships happen to be painted naval grey and are flying the RAN ensign...
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I am so embarrassed by the crass way that our Prime Minister has conducted himself.

It reflects badly on a country that has to date been held in high regard to international credibility compared to our population.

Tragedy really.
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Hi regard ..... do you think so ? gee gee i can think of some headlines over the years that sorta dont really put us in the high regard basket , but at risk of being political ill keep my trap shut.
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4 ships. One a support tanker/oiler, one a tug boat and two war ships.

Kind of takes the shine of a show of power when no-one south of the equator would resupply your ships and you have that little confidence in your fleet, that you bring a tug boat along.
Tug-of-war?
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4 ships. One a support tanker/oiler, one a tug boat and two war ships.

Kind of takes the shine of a show of power when no-one south of the equator would resupply your ships and you have that little confidence in your fleet, that you bring a tug boat along.

I'd like to see a Putin/Abbott showdown. Putin may be a black belt, but Abbott's a boxer and if he chucks on his budgie smugglers, he'll have Putin distracted enough to drop him. ;)
Tugs are used to maneuver big boats in ports mate.
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Seriously what are they gonna do?
Cmon.

Russia deploys ships every time some Russian big knob is at some g220 crap or expo.
They like to flex some muscle.
Nothing new.

U reckon they'd have a chance if they even thought about starting something?
Some second hand old hornet or some crap vs a couple dozen stealths..... lmao

Yeah...righto.
I think you would be quite surprised at how good their MIG fighters are compared to the best hardware from America. They would seriously crap on our 20 year old FA 18's.
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In Russialand it appears they also deploy them with their battlegroup, like this one - they deployed with a tug. They obviously don't have a lot of confidence in the reliability of their ships.

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bout this much, yo world hates us

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