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The Realist Resurgence

Posted by Matt in October 11th, 2008

Russia is weaker than it looks, which is why NATO’s soft-power strategy can still prevail.

That was the point Sean McCormack was making about Russia’s rickety fleet. Moscow is not the threat that it wants to appear. With more than 5,000 nuclear warheads and its status as the world’s largest energy exporter, it cannot really be called a paper tiger. Not militarily and not economically. But in both respects it is a pretty dysfunctional bear. “The Russian military is still a lot more bark than bite,” says Alexander Kliment, an analyst at the consultancy Eurasia Group. During the cold war the West used nuclear weapons as an equalizer, backing up an inferior conventional force. Now that’s what the Russians are doing. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the country has invested most of its defense money in maintaining its nuclear weapons, while conventional forces were left to decay.

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Russia fires Sineva missile max. distance
United Press International - 7 hours ago
The launch came amid drills by Russia’s northern fleet to test the readiness of naval strategic nuclear forces, the Russian news agency said,
Russian president observes record firing of Sineva ICBM RIA Novosti
Russia fires record-setting ballistic missile PRESS TV
Russia to build aircraft carriers Hindu
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