Originally posted by Elfie
As far as the first part, very true.
Second part, do you think the Russians would have kept quiet if we had torpedo'd one of their subs while they were trying to impress the Chinese with their new torpedo? Highly unlikely. Very likely that if an American sub had fired a torpedo that the rest of the Russian fleet would have immediately attacked the American sub and sunk it. In those shallow waters it would have been extremely difficult to evade both surface and air attacks.
What about that new Russian torpedo? You guys that know physics how do you suppose it works?
Well first off, there is still enough bad blood between the US and Russia that if it was found out that an American sub sunk a Russian sub or played in part in it's sinking. well lets just say it would be good for either country.
As already posted in this thread, the Russian economy was not doing so good. The last thing Russia would want or could afford at that time was any sort of confrontation with the US.
Threat of war is great for the economies of both Russia and the US, however war it's self can be harmful to the economies. The US knows this, Russia knows this and China knows this. None of them will go to war of something as small as this hence the reason if anything did happen it was covered up.
That's the reason both out countries has supported and fought in smaller wars of proxies, because it's good for biz and the economy. On the other hand Russia knows damn well it couldn't afford a war aginst the US and the US knows there is a lot of money to be made with an open Russia.
