2010-08-25, 04:31 | Link #8761 | ||
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It's currently around S$1.36 to US$1, compared to around S$1.45 just under two years ago. That's a 6.2 per cent slide, or around 15 per cent less than what the US$ was worth before 2008. Meanwhile, a follow-up to an earlier story: Japan's hunt for missing elderly exposes social woes Quote:
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2010-08-25, 07:13 | Link #8762 | ||
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These guys are routinely deployed into Chechen to wipe out entire cells of separatists, their combat experience is significantly larger than your regular elite law enforcement unit. Quote:
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2010-08-25, 07:22 | Link #8763 | |
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2010-08-25, 11:41 | Link #8767 | |
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I thought World War III is going to take forever to happen.
Iran shows missile, says is friend to neighbors Quote:
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2010-08-25, 14:13 | Link #8769 | |
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They just have to block the Gulf of Oman for making much problem for their ''neighboring countries'' .
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2010-08-25, 14:32 | Link #8770 | |
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2010-08-25, 14:37 | Link #8771 | |
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which will very soon be undergoing a civil war that will the leave the country knee deep in blood...head first.
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2010-08-25, 16:15 | Link #8772 | ||
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Israel is toast if Iran gets their S-300 AAM systems. No doubt, they would step up on covert tactics and state-sponsored terrorism just to take down Israel. And they are not the only ones - almost every Muslim state in the ME is looking hungrily at Jerusalem and Israel's state-of-art military technology, and notably and probably, the Arrow ABMS. Military-wise, US is unable to defeat Iran right now even with their allies. Military technology Iran is on a slightly lesser footing, but it has hybridised US-Russian technology left over from the Cold War, making it a rather formidable opponent. Quote:
I am pretty sure that Alzheimic fake prophet Khamieni won't hestitate to do so - he desires control over the entire Middle East.
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2010-08-25, 16:27 | Link #8773 | |
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I also think that the prophet Khamieni will not hesitate to go insane over getting control of the entire Middle East, but the fact remains that this may eventually turn into another World War soon enough.. Just a thought.
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2010-08-25, 16:36 | Link #8774 | |
Um-Shmum
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i agree that they wouldn't just fall over, but they aren't anywhere near capable of standing up to a US military force if the goal was truely about taking out the leadership (rather then try to occupy the entire country). at the present, Iran's military capabilities are around the same as Iraq's were around 1991, and even THEN, the coalition forces were able to steamroll through it. Iran's armor divisions still use old T-72s, and their air force mainly revolve around Russian fighters that would be Raptor Food if they were ever pitted against them. their paramilitary forces are considerable (some claim that they number over 10 million) but its questionable how many of them would really fight for this regime now. while Iran does have considerable capabilities, those capabilities are not of a military nature. they are mostly capable of carrying out retaliatory missile and terrorist strikes against targets outside their boarders, but military capability wise, Iran is about one step behind Egypt, and far behind Israel and Turkey in the middle east area. which is why they spent so much time and money developing proxy forces in the past decades. they know that they can't really stand up to the major powers, so they instead focus on exacting a cost of blood for actions against them.
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2010-08-25, 17:04 | Link #8775 | |
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In fairness, that was Iraq. Iran should fight a lot more competently.
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2010-08-25, 17:10 | Link #8776 | |
Um-Shmum
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though i WOULD add that that was 20 years ago, and technology has advanced considerably since then as well.
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2010-08-25, 19:03 | Link #8777 |
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Taking nuclear technology out of the picture, I don't think you realize how powerful the US military is. Other countries are a joke compared to ours in military strength, especially when it's a head on fight and not one of guerrilla tactics like Vietnam.
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2010-08-25, 19:18 | Link #8778 |
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I have my doubt about Iran's military technology, a mixed western/ russian army with all the logistic trouble than come with than kind of setting, plus some of their own national weapon , some with capacity than seem rather unrealistic .
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2010-08-26, 01:44 | Link #8779 | |
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How did John McCain win so easily in Arizona?
Interesting quote i found in this article Quote:
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2010-08-26, 02:50 | Link #8780 | |
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Iran is still far behind the U.S. in capabilities, but they are a bigger threat to their immediate neighbors in the middle east. It will be interesting to see how things will be once they acquire nuclear weapons(which is a matter of when, not if). |
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