USA Army vs Russian Army

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f a shooting war erupts between the United States and Russia anytime soon, the numbers say that America will win overwhelmingly, that is if the skirmishes are confine on conventional warfare. However, it will be a different story in case of a nuclear World War III.

America generally outmuscles Russia

Using the Global Firepower Index, Business Insider drew a chart that highlighted the military capabilities of 35 nations, which as expected is dominated by the United States and Russia.

Head to head, the U.S. clearly dominates Russia winning in six out of eight key elements cited in the BI chart.

Three notable advantages of U.S. President Barack Obama, if he chooses to shoot it out with Putin, are in the personnel, air power and sea authority departments. Around 1.4 million active U.S. service members are at Obama's disposal, facing off with Putin's combat-ready 766,000 Russian troops.

The U.S. Air Force can at any time project air superiority 13,683 modern aircrafts that can dogfight and eventually bomb Russia's mere 3000 plus military planes out of the sky.

But really what makes America mighty and formidable are its 10 aircraft carriers that the Business Insider report characterised as "super-carrier vessels (that) significantly boosts the country's forward operating power."

"Aircraft carriers contribute greatly to a country's overall military strength. These massive vessels allow nations to project their force far beyond their borders and across the entire face of the globe. They're essentially mobile naval and air force bases," the report added.

Such menacing firepower that can be further paired with 72 killer submarines, which translates to air, naval and land superiority, Russia can only match with its lone full-pledged aircraft carrier (Moscow has helicopter carriers) and 63 submarines, the index showed.

Tank battle

Yet when it comes to tank showdown, the Kremlin is always ready to rollout 15,000 units that can barrel through the wall of 8000 plus tanks that the White House can muster in the event the two would engage in an armour face off.

Russia, in fact, leads any military in the world in this respect.

Fearsome nuclear arsenal

The same index somehow confirmed the earlier reports that in a nuclear duel, Putin will theoretically get the better of Obama as the Russian leader can readily deploy 8,484 nuclear warheads, arrayed against America's 7,506, in a push of a button.

And if strategy counts (as it should be), Russia is definitely on a warpath as it continues to modernise its military arsenal that its searing-hot defence spending could soon overtake that of the U.S' $612 billion Pentagon budget.

Russian Literature vs American Literature. What makes Russian Literature so prominent on the stage of world literature ??

If I was asked, I would deem Tolstoy to be the greatest novelist and a central figure upon which 20th century novels (modernism) was based. I also would comment that Pushkin is one of the great romantic poets.  Furthermore russian lit really kicks of with Pushkin, so Russian lit is roughly as young as American lit and can hardly compare with the extent of Italian, French, English, Persian ect. I could say that part of what makes the 19th-century Russian writers so distinctive — why we still read them with such pleasure and fascination — is the force, the directness, the honesty and accuracy with which they depicted the most essential aspects of human experience. Not the computer-dating experience, obviously, or the airplane-seat-rage experience, or the “Where is the takeout I ordered an hour ago?” experience. But plenty of other crucial events and emotions appear, unforgettably, in their work: childbirth, childhood, death, first love, marriage, happiness, loneliness, betrayal, poverty, wealth, war and peace. I could mention the breadth and depth of their range, their success at making the individual seem universal, the fact that — though they inhabited the same country and century — each of “the Russians” is different from the others. I could applaud their ability to persuade us that there is such a thing as human nature, that something about the human heart and soul transcends the surface distinctions of nationality, social class and time. I could cite the wild imaginings of Gogol, who can make the most unlikely event — a man wakes up to discover that his nose has gone missing — seem not only plausible but convincing; the way in which Dostoyevsky’s people seem real to us, vivid and fully present, even as we suspect that no one ever really behaved as they do, flinging themselves at each other’s feet, telling their life stories at extraordinary length and in excruciating detail to a stranger in a bar; the mournful delicacy of Chekhov, his uncanny skill at revealing the deepest emotions of the men, women and children who populate his plays and short stories; the ambition and insight that suffuses Tolstoy’s small moments (jam-making and mushroom-picking) and epic set pieces (a disastrous horse race, the Battle of Borodino); the subtlety with which Turgenev portrays the natural landscape and his meticulously rendered but ultimately mysterious characters. Part of what makes Tolstoy one of the best writers of all time , is that his Characters all over the place. You can find them anywhere and everywhere you go. American literature on the other hand is also unique. America from it's beginning had a special philosophy of life and freedom and reflected it in it's writings. Americans had a simple faith that God was the giver of all American rights and freedomsthus if we had faith in ourselves we could succeed in anything we tried., and if we failed we were free to try again. American  literature for the most partdisplayed for the world to r3ead and understand that life was what we made it and our ability to spring back from adversity made life worth living. George Washington was a perfect example. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "The Children's Hour" or "The Village Blacksmith" shows the American Morality. So understanding the different values , morals , and philosophy of american and russsian literature can help us better understand how the people are different.

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Quality of Life in Moscow , Russia

Say you come from a big US city like LA or NY, to work and live in Moscow, Russia. At first it may seem crazy because Russians are the complete antipods of Americans. While amercians eat hamburgers and french fries ( the typical stereotypes ) russians hate hamburgers and there favorite foods are cavier and this soup called Borsch. Moscow is a BIG city and Driving is impossible, because of the amount of cars and crazy drivers. The amount of car accidents in Moscow are way more than in New York.  So getting a car in Moscow , in my opnion is suicidal.  New york on the other hand doesnt have that many cars and crazy drivers , and the traffic in new york is NOTHING compared to the traffic in moscow. The traffic in moscow during a rush hour is crazy. People literaly get out of there cars to eat in restaurants while there stuck in traffic!  thats why manny people use the train, But let me tell you , the trains are no better !The amount of people in the subway during a rush hour is insane. The subway is buried like 80 - 120 meters underground ( 250 - 300 feat ) and the escalators are like 136 meters ( 315 feet ) long. And all these people are rushing down , pushing there way on this extremly long escalator.. So travelling the subway is not very pleasant in both cities.  But on the other hand  the subway in Moscow is like a palace!!!  It doesnt smell , there are no rats or crazy people there! its like a castle !

Russian People are nicer  , more intelligent. They have better manners  and you will never come across any crazyness in the Moscow subway unlike New York.