The Impact Of Russia's Arms Trade In Russia

One country is comparable to the United States of America in terms of world power and prominence. Russia makes their name known beginning in World War 2 (WW2), later in the Korean War, Cold War, and today’s proxy war in the Syria. Russia’s culture, environment, politics, military, and economy do not just make Russia a regional powerhouse, but slowly becoming a region of influential power to surrounding countries with the end state of a global superpower. All the factors that make Russia the powerhouse that it is slowly becoming, highlights the impressive trend that supersedes the previous Soviet Union and past leaders.

Lets start out with the good things that Russia’s economy has. Russia has an more than enough natural resources. They have plenty of timber, precious metals, oil, gas, and coal. Those resources being exported could easily benefit their economy if it wasn’t for other countries who produce more of the resources taking their potential

US Domestic Considerations are the oil pipeline through the Southern Caucasus Region and the Black Sea for trade access.

To this day Russia remains to be one of the bigger threats to our military with about 1.5 million personnel in their armed forces combined. This number includes ground forces, navel force, air force and ada forces. They remain one of the stronger forces due to their allotments to their ministry of defense with over 19 billion yearly in maintenance and salary of their forces. The country covers more than 17 million square kilometers with 10 percent of that being swamp lands and 45 percent being Forrest. Still with unemployment rates right around 8 percent Russia remains self-sufficient from a fuel and energy standpoint with their production of coal, natural gas, oil fuels. Coal makes up more than 18 percent of their main electric needs for their country. Transportation in the country continue to be a ever growing thing with over 900 thousand kilometers of roadways, eighty thousand kilometers of railways and over twenty five hundred airports in the country. With many religions as expected with such a big country the predominate on considers themselves as Russian orthodox which makes up about 75 percent, 19 percent consider themselves to be Muslim and 7 percent fall under other.

Russia has built a strong, but stagnating economy on several natural resources to include the refinery and export of natural gas and oil. According to the Jim Picht (2014) exportation of natural gas and oil to Eastern Europe account for 70 percent of Russia’s exports and 53 percent of the government’s revenue. Along with exporting oil to Eastern Europe, Russia also exports too many countries to include China and Belarus. Europe fueled majority by Russian supplied natural gas and oil, the dependency of Europe’s need for this natural resource is the reason Russia’s economy is so strong. In 2014, when Russia decided to invade the neighboring country of Ukraine has led Europe to begin searching for other suppliers of their natural resources. If Europe finds other countries to supply the natural resources

Europe was attractive to Russia for several reasons. Firstly, Europe was far closer and more accessible than the Ottoman, Safavid, Qing or Mughal Empires. As a result, it was far easier to conduct trade, build alliances, and exchange ideas with the countries near by. After all, what use would a Chinese- British alliance be in a pre-modern world? Europe was also attractive because of its growing wealth and prosperity, which made it a market for potential Russian exports, and a source of luxury imports.

After the end of World War 2, from 1945 to 1950, tensions were rising between the United States and the Soviet Union, or USSR. Once the Soviet Union successfully made its first atomic bomb, the two countries entered into an arms race. Differences in their economies worried the American people and the American government. Neither the United States nor the Soviet Union wanted to cooperate with each other due to the lack of transparency brought on by the arms race. The Cold War was ultimately caused by a deep mistrust between the US and the Soviet Union, the imperialistic nature of the Soviet Union at the time, and the United State’s aid to smaller countries in support of democracy.

As Russia was industrializing, they saw a need for more trade in their economy. Russia only had

Russia has the ninth largest economy in the world, making it potentially beneficial to the United States to trade with them, and in turn strengthening the relationship between the two countries. However, since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Russia has been working hard to build up their private sectors, and though they have come a far way since then, they still have much to do. Therefore, the US should help Russia to create a more powerful and independent business sector, as well as a stronger trade association sector, which would help the Russian economy, making them better partners for American businesses. Russia’s trade associations are currently not very good, partially due to their lack of both resources and understanding in

President. The next time you strike Syria, Putin will strike back. The Russian President will never leave Syria, and you know it. He has interests in keeping an alliance with Bashar Al-Assad at whatever cost. Even if 100 more chemical bombs explode in Syria, the Russian President will never admit his involvement, and he will never leave Syria.

Are you worried about being slaughtered by the Russian military? Well stop worrying, because Russia's military is not big enough or strong enough to attack the U.S. Russia's military has been recently growing, but it is not capable of hurting the U.S. The U.S.'s military is stronger than Russia's, so there is no need to worry about possible attacks from Russia.

world market. The exports of oil also put Russia on the leading positions in the

Russia's new strength is also based on its vast reserves of oil and natural gas, which as the price of crude exceeds $ 120 per barrel, give the country tremendous bargaining power, not only in its relations with countries directly dependent on its supplies as Ukraine, Germany and Hungary, but, in general, by the capacity of influence that give

lowering cost of oil. Therefore, Russia countines to support Syria economically because it will increase their global arms trade. As Russia’s global arms trade grows its influence will continue to grow. This will cultivate the declining ruble and will give relief from the damaging sanctions.

•EU MS seem to be among the largest investors in virtually allthe sectors of the Russian economy.