Welcome to the Cold War 2.0 thread.
You will find documentation of the current Cold War.
Former Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev) has himself said the world is heading into a Corld War 2.0.
Many think it'll consist of proxy wars such as Ukraine and financial wars, no ones expecting an all out NATO vs Russia.
Russia is becoming more aggressive after many years of simply protesting against Nato and US / EU aggression / propaganda. It now seems literally on the War path as you can learn from some of the spoilers below. I will try my best to document all news and I will not be including many sources as you can google it and choose your own source. I use about 10 news sources and give a general summary.
Please enjoy and feel free to discuss the news and contribute new things if you want in the following format (spoiler is for news articles / news summaries)
Economic War
Putin and his allies Kazakhstan & Azerbaijan (members of an EU of their own) are hoarding gold.
Telegraph claims they're gearing up for an economic war as the Russian currency becomes even more shittier tier due to illegal economic sanctions by the EU and US.
Some chaps are claiming he's horded as much as 55 tonnes.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/commodities/11226240/Putin-stockpiles-gold-as-Russia-prepares-for-economic-war.html
As Russia holds a Veto in the Security council, nothing came from it other than throwing words at each other and propaganda :lol:.
(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/78936000/jpg/_78936288_024676377-1.jpg)
International observers have said they've witnessed and confirmed that Russian Trucks bearing the Russian military code "Cargo 200" which is used for the transport of soldiers who have died in battle were spotted entering Ukraine and then heading back to Russia some hours later.
Nato yesterday also claimed Russian troops, tanks, anti aircraft and heavy weaponry had entered into Ukraine.
Now Russia has denied these reports as propaganda but admitted Russian volunteers where fighting in Ukraine alongside rebels.
In Australian news, Russia's President Vladimir Putin has ordered four ships to head to Australia ahead of the G20 meeting, in a show of naval might after Australia's PM planned to / has had a go at him.
This is clearly now proof that there is a Cold War 2.0 in existence.
That with the proxy wars in Ukraine and Syria as well.
The ships were ordered to raise the Russian flag as they arrived, such troll :D.
More on the Russian show of strength here:
http://www.news.com.au/national/russian-warships-heading-to-australia/story-fncynjr2-1227120928528
My opinion on this matter is as followed:
Monte likes this juicy drama but knows it's just that, drama, no actual conflict would arise from this provocation
(http://rs1img.memecdn.com/just-putin_o_984230.webp)
Sweden launched its biggest naval operation since World War 2 after a unauthorized and unknown submarine has been spotted in Swedish water.
Swedish Admiralty have said they would use force.
The submarine was not found and it was believed to be Russian in (although no one of-course could confirm it was Russian).
One theory is that Russia is testing NATO military responses.
Some years back a Russian nuclear sub suffered 'difficulties' and ended up beached in Sweden.
Seriously, do you really need me to make a paragraph? Just google it. You'd learn enough even if it was from the Bias BBC.
It's Russia and Syria vs the US and EU in Syria. Russia is supplying military support to Syria, no doubt about it, whilst on the other side the US and EU created a Taliban 2.0 earlier on in the conflict which was made to encourage regime change, however now they're having to clean up before it gets out of hand like the Taliban ... uh oh spoke too late huh....
The escalated show of the current Russian intolerance toward 'bullshit' by the US and EU began in Libya after it clearly warned what would happen if they went ahead and screwed around in Libya. Putin was right. Now Libya is a second Pakistan on its way to a second Afghanistan devoid of good central government, infiltrated by Al Qaeda. It seems easily able to slip into the same as Somalia. Another example of silly geopolitical games which has led to the destabilization of a country. Of course it's no secret that the SAS was on the ground training an a hunt and kill / assassination squad to go up against Gaddafi. Russia and China probably didn't use their Veto's at the time because they probably thought it'd not help, but I think if a similar attempt was now made, it'd definitely warrant their veto rights to be used.
Feel free to post news commentary, but please follow the same method I've used above (Spoiler with a subject line)
[spoler = ' (Country Specific?) subject / title here ' - date]
your summary / if you are lazy just a copy pasta of a news article :v:here
Sources:
- welcome but not required - put your source at the bottom of your summary.
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I'm sure Russia's ancient naval fleet would have a devastating impact... Maybe it's time Russia stopped wasting money on empty threats and provocations and spent it on updating some of their fleet for a change..
They are still using Kashin-class destroyers from the 1960's and even their newest destroyers are from the early 1980's.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Smetlivyy2003.jpg/1280px-Smetlivyy2003.jpg)
Comparing it to the British Type 45 Destroyer - They look extremely out of date.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Royal_Navy_Type_45_Destroyer_HMS_Daring_MOD_45153705.jpg/1280px-Royal_Navy_Type_45_Destroyer_HMS_Daring_MOD_45153705.jpg)
Which is why I don't take Russia seriously at all, they might have the numbers but really their entire naval fleet is 30-60 year old rust buckets which haven't been upgraded and I seriously doubt they could actually afford to upgrade them considering the fact they can't even build anything newer, it's ok Australia, I'm sure the UK will be there if you need any help.
Looks like Russia will "shirtfront" us instead haha..
Mr Abbott Shirt-fronting Putin Soundbite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4T7cfJqa7s
FYI this a shirtfront
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGQH-UH-PFk
If they're going to use their outdated warships against us, I want to see Australian Navy do this. Pls be real.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7mHID2-Tv0
Looks like Russia will "shirtfront" us instead haha..
Mr Abbott Shirt-fronting Putin Soundbite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4T7cfJqa7s
FYI this a shirtfront
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGQH-UH-PFk
If they're going to use their outdated warships against us, I want to see Australian Navy do this. Pls be real.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7mHID2-Tv0
People call Tony Abbott racist but I don't quite understand why, he's just trying to preserve Australia's culture and identity for the future and yet they are still suffering the effects of multiculturalism and mass-immigration - If caring for your own country and it's native people is being racist, then I must be one of the most racist people on this planet.
This is one of the main reasons the UK needs to ditch the EU, if it focused more on working with modern and strong commonwealth countries like Australia, New Zealand, Canada and many more surely Russia wouldn't be parking it's ships in commonwealth countries water. I hope if Russia does enter Australia's waters without permission - They do something about it, board them boats and if they resist, sink them mother f**kers, 'The West' surely has your back.
(http://i.imgur.com/JzsDTaj.png)