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Column Every day X case legislation is delayed is a day women’s lives are at risk

Twenty-one years on from the X case, legislation to protect women’s lives is still not in place, writes Alison Spillane.

LAST FRIDAY, over 100 civil society organisations, trade unions, politicians, activists, artists, and academics signed a statement calling on the government to enact legislation for the X case before the summer. The statement demanded that this legislation include the risk of suicide as grounds for abortion as well as provision for termination if a foetus has a fatal abnormality and cannot survive.

Opinion polls have consistently shown that a significant majority of people support abortion when a woman’s life is at risk. Yet, twenty-one years on from the X case, and several months after the death of Savita Halappanavar, legislation to protect women’s lives is still not in place. Every day this is delayed is a day women’s lives are at risk.

Abortion in cases of suicide

In December 2012, the government committed to introducing a combination of legislation and regulations to implement the existing constitutional right to a lawful abortion in Ireland. At present, however, there is a real danger that this promised legislation could be stalled further and made so restrictive as to render abortion in cases of suicide risk inaccessible.

A memo about the proposed legislation was set to go to Cabinet at the beginning of February only to be withdrawn last minute and replaced by a “verbal update” from Minister Reilly. Media reports stated that the delay was due to a proposal by the Minister which would require up to five doctors to approve abortion where there is a risk of suicide. Such a proposition is entirely unworkable and will fail to deal adequately with what the European Court of Human Rights called the “striking discordance” between the theoretical right to a lawful abortion in Ireland and the reality of its practical implementation. The assertion in the Action on X statement that no more than two medical practitioners should be required to approve abortion is a direct response to this impractical proposal.

In addition to this setback, there are indications that the legislation may be further delayed. Minister Reilly has been quoted on several occasions as saying that he expects to bring forward the Heads of a Bill before Easter on 31 March. However, in response to a parliamentary question on 21 February, he stated that the government intends to publish the Heads of a Bill “in the next few months”. It is therefore critically important that the 85 per cent of us who support this legislation make our voices heard by contacting our TDs.

State-wide access to abortion

The Action on X statement also calls for State-wide access to abortion – a woman whose life is at risk because of her pregnancy should not be denied a termination because she lives in a rural area. As well as this, provision should be made for abortion in cases of fatal foetal abnormality. Every week, women and their partners travel to the UK to terminate much-wanted pregnancies because the foetus has no chance of survival. Liverpool Hospital alone sees two couples a week. Every week we force women to endure unnecessary psychological, physical and financial hardship. Yet, as the Irish Council for Civil Liberties has highlighted, the Irish government itself has argued in the European Court of Human Rights that it is possible to interpret Article 40.3.3 of the Constitution as permitting termination of pregnancy in cases of fatal foetal abnormality.

We have already waited too long. We have watched the unnecessary and tragic deaths of women like Sheila Hodgers, Michelle Harte, and Savita Halappanavar. This must never happen again. Legislation for X must be introduced by summer with no restrictions that make abortion unavailable in practice. The government must acknowledge that women’s lives matter.

Alison Spillane is a member of Action on X and the Abortion Rights Campaign. Action on X will hold a Rally for X starting from the Central Bank on Dame Street at 6pm this evening. For more information on the 10 Days of Action see www.abortionrights.ie

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    Oct 10th 2015, 8:39 PM

    Imagine all those budgets spent on feeding and housing people instead of blowing them up.

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    Oct 10th 2015, 8:45 PM

    Well America for one could solve all of its societal problems. It’s a sad world.

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    Oct 10th 2015, 9:04 PM

    They won’t even look after their own poor.

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    Oct 10th 2015, 9:26 PM

    Sorry lads but that’s simplistic drivel. It’s a necessary evil to have a large military and I’m delighted to see that some of our friends are in the top 10. In case you hadn’t noticed, ISIS don’t give a shit about neutrality.

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    Oct 10th 2015, 10:02 PM

    Either do the people who fund and arm them

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    Oct 11th 2015, 8:23 AM

    Speaking of budgets and military spending…UK and US Governments behind ISIS Toyota fleet.

    The Mystery Of ISIS’ Toyota Army Solved

    http://www.activistpost.com/2015/10/the-mystery-of-isis-toyota-army-solved.html

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    Oct 11th 2015, 9:00 AM

    Kevin isis only give a shit about what they are paid to give a shit about by their employers, theyll soon be gone from syria – the yanks are printing up their p45s as we speak.

    The only reason any country has a large army is to steal – to steal money from taxpayers to give to arms dealers and those in control and to steal resources and land from weaker parties. The bigger the army the more stealing goes on, always has been like that and always will, as long as the majority of citizens are misinformed muppets like you

    And youre glad the US are our friends to protect us from the big bad wolf isis/al qaeda/whoever? Can i remind you that the biggest army in the world with the biggest budget, our friends who we allow to land in shannon on their way to blow up hospitals, doctors and babies in afghanistan, who have been supposedly fighting isis for a year and have made zero progress in that time, have just had their arse handed to them by a little fella called assad who we were told years ago was gona be toast

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    Oct 10th 2015, 8:45 PM

    No North Korea on this list ?!

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    Oct 10th 2015, 9:19 PM

    Well they can’t fuel their planes, so no. I would never have put Canada Top 20…

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    Oct 10th 2015, 9:32 PM

    They have nuclear weapons and the largest artillery in the world….should be in the lost

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    Oct 10th 2015, 9:46 PM

    Pretty sure America have the largest artillery. What NK have are planes they can’t fuel, tanks they can’t drive, power outages, mass populace starvation and nuclear weapon ‘capability’… They also have a short fat lad ruling all of this. I tremble.

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    Oct 11th 2015, 12:20 AM

    It’s a closely guarded secret but i know a guy that herd it from a mate whos sister is married to the cousin twice removed of Kim Jun Il’s shoe shine boy, that they have: 1 trillion budget 500 million troops 1 million tanks 500,000 aircraft 1000 submarines

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    Oct 11th 2015, 7:38 AM

    And they landed a rocket on the sun. At night. Beat that murica.

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    Oct 11th 2015, 9:11 AM

    I hope you’re not referring to the “dear leader”! The most saintly man of our time

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    Oct 11th 2015, 10:51 AM

    Kim Jong il, met a guy in the pub last week with two pints, apparently he was delighted

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    Oct 10th 2015, 8:39 PM

    America spends $601 billion! That’s insane.

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    Oct 10th 2015, 9:07 PM

    Plus CIA black ops stuff, space programmes and NSA stuff!

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    Oct 10th 2015, 9:17 PM

    A drop in the ocean for the school yard bully.

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    Oct 10th 2015, 9:31 PM

    Funded by the oil dollar, the world needs to stop the free credit to them, just look at whe last decade of American wars

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    Oct 11th 2015, 8:37 AM

    Best bit was that the article said the us spend 601 billion on Defense! As in defending themselves! As opposed to offense i.e. terrorising and murdering innocent people all over the world

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    Oct 10th 2015, 8:34 PM

    Id fancy Israel to cause a few upsets and push for a top four finish

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    Oct 10th 2015, 8:43 PM

    You can never rule out the Germans.

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    Oct 10th 2015, 8:44 PM

    I heard that Italy and France’s tanks only have one gear going forward and 5 gears for reverse

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    Oct 10th 2015, 9:12 PM

    The true figure is much higher if you include all of the subsidisation & funding they receive, as well as their black-ops.

    https://www.opendemocracy.net/ben-hayes/how-eu-subsidises-israel%E2%80%99s-military-industrial-complex

    They give them free top ups on the missiles they fire at Palestinian children, Germany gives them submarines capable of firing nuclear weapons.

    http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/193958

    I thought they didn’t have nukes?

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    Oct 10th 2015, 9:21 PM

    Chris and the one forward gear is in case they are attacked from behind

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    Oct 10th 2015, 9:21 PM

    Israel have never confirmed or denied that they have them. In a way its a moot point though – if people believe they have them its an effective deterrent anyway.

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    Oct 10th 2015, 9:23 PM

    Germany don’t have them though.

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    Oct 10th 2015, 9:30 PM

    Israel does not confirm or deny because the do not want to be subject to the non proliferation treaty, inspections, and the international rule of law.

    They can only maintain this due to the dissolute support by the US in every international attempt to make them accountable to the international law, and morals.

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    Oct 10th 2015, 9:41 PM

    North Korea??

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    Oct 11th 2015, 11:32 AM

    Definately, they’ve improved a lot in the close season. Still think they could do with bringing in with a big banger up front and a worldie between the sticks in the post Hanica transfer window. Them, combined with the “dont even think about it” defence and the aggresive, possesion based midfield should surely see them top 4.

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    Oct 10th 2015, 8:38 PM

    Goldman Sachs Budget 0
    Tanks. 0
    Army. 0
    Aircraft 0
    Power and Influence, 100,000,000,000,000,000

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    Oct 10th 2015, 8:47 PM

    All major wars are bankers’ wars.

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    Oct 10th 2015, 9:39 PM

    The Vatican platoon is known as the Swiss Guards. They are the No. 1 flamboyantly dressed soldiers in the world.

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    Oct 10th 2015, 10:15 PM

    Also, the only western army committed to “god”… The actual Swiss army btw were considered so dangerous during WW2 that even the Nazis just said “no”. To this day every one of them is trained to fall back to the hills and fight a gurellia war.500 years without an external army taking the piss has to be a record… Although Napoleon tried for about 2 weeks once, but they don’t count that….They threatened to disappear the funding the Rothschilds funded him with I believe….

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    Oct 11th 2015, 2:18 AM

    The army of San Marino consists of 600 archers.

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    Oct 11th 2015, 8:19 AM

    There is no mention of Swiss Guards in the Bible.

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    Oct 11th 2015, 10:11 AM

    Switzerland was Neutral Jamsey. Nothing to do with their pathetic little army being “dangerous” to the vast Nazi army. If the Nazis found it convenient they would have overrun Switzerland.
    They found it convenient to overrun Norway and Denmark and The Netherlands and Belgium and Poland.
    The Nazis weren’t bothered with climbing the Alps at that exact time.That’s all.

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    Oct 11th 2015, 11:17 AM

    We don’t get it because we live on an island but continental Europe are historically terrified of the Swiss. Check out the history if Switzerland if you don’t believe me. It’s no accident that the pope’s personal bodyguard are the Swiss Guard: a band of mercenaries so lethal that in the Middle Ages if the Swiss marched onto the battle field in support of one side the other would admit defeat without a single blow being stuck.

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    Oct 10th 2015, 8:51 PM

    Dose America’s figure of 1,400,000 Active front line personnel also include all the terrorists that they hire.

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    Oct 10th 2015, 9:30 PM

    “Dose” – yep, you sure are.

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    Oct 10th 2015, 9:47 PM

    TheMiller ..”Dose” will come into the equation as soon as they drop the Ebola Virus.

    http://s24.postimg.org/44q14nrg5/ebolagay_1.jpg

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    Oct 11th 2015, 8:42 AM

    The answer is no. The weekly wage bill for isis mercenaries and other paid extremists comes under the US’s foreign aid bill and not defense

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    Oct 11th 2015, 9:59 AM

    Comes from the CIAs illicit profits from the War of drugs and War of terror combined Frank, you should know that.

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    Oct 10th 2015, 9:02 PM

    I’d like to see the Germans try and invade Poland now

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    Oct 10th 2015, 9:32 PM

    They probably would still win

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    Oct 10th 2015, 10:33 PM

    It is such a damning indictment of hunanity that we have so much machinery and resources dedicated to killing eachother.
    We are still so primitive.

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    Oct 11th 2015, 3:32 AM

    The wcary thing about Islamic extremism is that they can not be expected to fear mutually assured destruction, which is what prevented the cold war from igniting.

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    Oct 10th 2015, 9:18 PM

    Jaysus that’s some budget for the Israelis,they shoot children don’t they.

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    Oct 10th 2015, 9:26 PM

    Oh yeah,blowing up hospitals is a past time of the terrorist state too,and land grabbing,the defence budget should cover that also.

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    Oct 11th 2015, 9:57 AM

    that makes it ok then David Hogan?

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    Oct 10th 2015, 9:04 PM

    There is a huge influence of war propaganda at the moment being fed into modern day culture through media, entertainment industry, computer games and so forth…..usually tends to indicate that people are being conditioned to accept a reality of that sort.

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    Oct 11th 2015, 10:14 AM

    Have you heard of Edward Bernays?
    He invented the term, “public relations” as a euphemism for “propaganda” and predicted this more than 80 years ago. He called it, “the invisible government”.

    Bernays wrote that “Those who manipulate this unseen element of [modern democracy] constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country… We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of… ”
    The aim is ultimately the conquest of us all – of our political consciousness, our sense of the world, our ability to think independently, to separate truth from lies.

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    Oct 10th 2015, 8:41 PM

    ffs now add all those budgets together and then you will be saying FFS!

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    Oct 10th 2015, 8:44 PM

    No profit in peace.

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    Oct 10th 2015, 8:47 PM

    True

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    Oct 10th 2015, 9:12 PM

    A number of things concern me in this article.
    1 – why is Ireland not on this list???????2 – China have 2.3 million in their army but they are not no. 1
    3 – Our nearest neighbours and war mongering ‘friends’ in the UK are only no. 9 despite them acting like they are no. 1
    4 – where is North Korea on this list…..
    5 – Italy have an army?????

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    Oct 10th 2015, 9:25 PM

    did you read the bit before the count started? might answer your inane questions.

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    Oct 10th 2015, 11:55 PM

    I would much prefer for the democratic and liberal USA to remain the world’s most powerful and influential military force, than to have either China or Russia occupy that position.

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    Oct 11th 2015, 9:35 AM

    Ryssua doesn’t bomb countries back to the stone age uninvited. I see you’ve been welk cobditioned by westwrn propaganda and lies. Do some thinking for yourself.

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    Oct 10th 2015, 9:12 PM

    Britain is probably higher than table says – plus generally has to do the yanks dirty work

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    Oct 10th 2015, 9:18 PM

    €601 billion cos the keep poxy invading everyone!

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    Oct 11th 2015, 12:37 AM

    what a horrendous waste when so many starve.

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    Oct 10th 2015, 10:42 PM

    Cheese eating, surrender monkeys 6th,sacré bleu.

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    Oct 11th 2015, 1:40 AM

    The cowardly paddies are where?

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    Oct 11th 2015, 3:04 AM

    Probably in the Mediterranean Sea, rescuing migrants from drowning.

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    Oct 11th 2015, 5:36 AM

    Donie the cowardly “paddies” were fighting in WW1&2. Spanish Civil war, Mexican war……..I could go on? Cowardly paddies. If we were we would still be part of the UK ya dopey bollix.

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    Oct 11th 2015, 10:09 AM

    The only country to have won more Victoria Crosses than Ireland is England.
    The first man in the world to receive a Victoria Cross in June 1857 was an Irishman – Charles Lucas.
    The last man to win a V.C. in World War 2 was the submariner from Belfast, James Magennis.
    The only man ever to win both a V.C. and an Iron Cross was Dublin medic William Manley.
    The youngest person to win a V.C. was fifteen year old drummer boy, Thomas Flinn.
    Every county in Ireland, except one, has at least one winner of the Victoria Cross.
    http://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2013/0927/647526-radio-documentary-little-cross-of-bronze-victoria/

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    Oct 11th 2015, 12:38 AM

    This article is like Jayson Culligans porn stash.

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    Oct 11th 2015, 12:06 AM

    WW3 on the horizon?

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    Oct 11th 2015, 12:17 AM

    Uk so far down is surprising

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    Oct 11th 2015, 6:31 AM

    and not one or all of them together can take down isis haha if that doesn’t tell you what you need to know then I feel sorry for you’re mother

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    Oct 11th 2015, 9:43 AM

    I would venture that Russia has a much larger army and nuclear arsenel than they let on. You honestly think Russia would disclose it’s full military?

    In the event of war Russia has a reserve army of over 100 Million (Men and Women). This is what Germany discovered in WW2. They also have the most advanced rocket propulsion technologies in the world. Hence why Nasa (despite sanctions) continues to buy Russian rockets to take their shuttles and sattelites up.

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    Oct 11th 2015, 9:47 AM

    I would also add that what America can build for the guts of a billion dollars Russia can build a better one for a less than a hundred million.

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    Oct 11th 2015, 7:51 AM

    I think this list is giving too much weight to aircraft carriers. Some well informed military minds suggest that they will be obsolete in any future full scale world war due to the fact that they’re slow, and pretty much sitting ducks for submarines. With that in mind, the list should be resigned in my humble opinion

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    Oct 11th 2015, 10:42 AM

    The Nazi propaganda radio presenter Lord Haw Haw (who was from Galway)) once sneered at the Irish army:
    “The Irish army couldn’t beat the tinkers out of Galway”

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    Oct 11th 2015, 8:48 AM

    it’s like top trumps

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    Oct 11th 2015, 12:46 PM

    Its no wonder poverty is worldwide.

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    Oct 11th 2015, 12:20 PM

    Who knows what N.korea have ?

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    Oct 11th 2015, 6:23 PM

    Two turnips and a big mouth?

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    Oct 11th 2015, 6:21 PM

    Russia has developed red mercury which I believe can be used to make a fusion bomb and they can be made the size of a pen. It would take 20 of these pen size bombs to destroy life in the city of Moscow but these bombs would kill all life but not touch the cities infrastructure, scary stuff?
    The U.S. is not number one because their weapons is expensive but not up to the job, I believe in the 90s that they had made tanks made out of aluminum, that was a joke for a while… But their arms makers are not the best and the Iraqi war proved that the soldiers PPE was shoddy and cheap.
    Now it is the F35′s at fault…
    http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/7/the-american-militarys-trillion-dollar-boondoggle.html
    http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/30/us-lockheed-fighter-idUSBRE90T01R20130130

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    Oct 11th 2015, 6:11 PM

    Russia has the most powerful, in warfare as in playing poker you do not show all your cards and Russia, India and China could all come together and their population would be half of all humans on this planet…

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    Oct 11th 2015, 5:53 PM

    it’s a Fecking stupid survey anyway. quality matter more than quantity, command and control matters more than ‘having an aircraft’. (actually, the ability to smash enemy comms matters more than any number- and the western powers are badly behind Russia in that regard)

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