Precizare a purtătorului de cuvânt al Pentagonului
The United States’ Aegis Ashore system is not directed against Russia but is designed to protect against potential attacks from the Middle East, Pentagon spokesman Patrick Evans told RIA Novosti.
The United States’ Aegis Ashore system is not directed against Russia but is designed to protect against potential attacks from the Middle East, Pentagon spokesman Patrick Evans told RIA Novosti.
It’s been about 12,000 years since Earth’s glaciers last retreated, having finished carving out the Great Lakes, depositing boulders in strange places, and generally giving the northern hemisphere a makeover. But that does not mean Earth’s most recent ice age is over. We are currently in an interglacial, a warmer period sits between the longer glacial periods of an ice age, which itself lasts a few million years.
Mars has ice ages, too, but its temperature swings are more extreme. According to scientists, the Red Planet is emerging from an ice age of its own, following several rounds of climate change. Radar evidence says this retreat began about 370,000 years ago.
Therefore, even if oil prices become relatively high again, the new reality for Russia means coming to an almost unshakable near zero equilibrium in all areas: economic, social and political. Judging by the popularity of the ruling regime and its lack of accountability before the public, such a situation could last years — until the dilapidated post-Soviet economy finally produces major technological disasters or becomes deeply dysfunctional. But it will take another 3-5 years before that occurs.