Russian business should be prepared to switch to production to military needs at any time, said Vladimir Putin on Wednesday. The Russian president was speaking at a conference of military leaders in Sochi.
�The ability of our economy to increase military production and services at a given time is one of the most important aspects of military security,� Mr Putin said. �To this end, all strategic, and simply large-scale enterprise should be ready, regardless of ownership.�
A day earlier, the president had spoken of a need to catch up and overtake the West in military technology. �Our army and navy need to have the very best equipment � better than foreign equivalents,� he said. �If we want to win, we have to be better.�
When the clear outcome of a war between the US and Russia is mutual destruction, it is hard to understand what winning or being "better" might entail.
Since it is obvious to everybody that Russia has nothing to fear from America as long as Putin's puppet Donald Trump is in office, it seems to me that this directive is the result of Putin thinking that he may not stay in office that much longer.
However the idea that we would remove Trump and then immediately start a war with Russia seems more than a little ridiculous, even though by interfering in our election Russia essentially launched a first strike.
So is Putin simply saber rattling here for the benefit of his constituents, or is he literally considering a military engagement with the US?
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