Quote: (12-15-2015 02:14 AM)MidJack Wrote:
(A) We had 50B USD to spend
and
(B) We spent 50B USD
are not equivalent but also are not mutually exclusive.
That is the trick to Putin's argument. Do you really think they stopped strategic air operations because they wanted to be good world citizens? They couldn't afford to maintain the aircraft!
The video is brilliant propaganda, for which I give Putin credit, but Russia doesn't really hold moral high ground as presented.
I think you need to re-watch the video and/or think harder and/or cuck less. Putin never claimed any moral high ground vis a vis strategic air patrols. He simply pointed out the hypocrisy of America decrying Russia's air maneuvers when the Americans have been doing the exact same thing for much longer. Whether the Russians could have been doing it or not is completely irrelevant to the hypocrisy of the American complaining.
This is so obvious I'm beginning to think you're just shilling.