You can laugh all you want from old Russian ships. But when Zircon missile will hit you from 1000 km away with 10 M speed - your Western fancy looking toys will sink in a minute.
Smaller population and much smaller density. On the contrary USA have most of its population on the ocean's shores - a few 100 Mt Poseidons nuclear super-torpedoes will be enough to wash away most of Americans.
I find it hilarious how Western propaganda is dichotomously showing Russia and still this schizophrenic patterns coexists in some weak minds:
1. Russia is unbeatable dark empire. We need all the NATO and dozens of non-NATO countries combined to defeat it and save the world.
2. Russia is a joke...
It is because of Julian calender. The Orthodox church still use it. Russian winter holidays last from January 1st to January 8-10th. We call it New Year holidays not Christmas holidays.
CSTO defense ministers on January 13 to set schedule for troops pullout from Kazakhstan
Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has requested that the CSTO ends its peacekeeping mission from Thursday
MOSCOW, January 12. /TASS/. The CSTO on Wednesday said its Council of Defense Ministers will...