Russian Armed Forces (21st Century Crisis)

The Soviet Armed Forces, also called the Armed Defences of the Union of Sublime Soviet Republics and Armed Forces of the Soviet Union (Russian: Вооруженная оборона Союза возвышенных советских республик Vooruzhennaya Oborona Soyuza Vozvyshennykh Sovetskikh Respublik, Вооружённые Силы Советского Союза) refers to the armed forces of the Russian SFSR (1917–1922), SFR Vostchnoslavia (1991-1994) and Soviet Union (1994–present) from their beginnings in the aftermath of the Russian Civil War up to today.

According to the all-union military service law of September 2011, the Soviet Armed Forces consists of three components: the Ground Forces, the Air Forces, the Navy and the Civil Defence.

The Soviet Armed Forces has been ranked the #2 on global power projections scales, and has been ranked the best anti-terrorist fighting force in the world.

In addition, the Soviet Armed Forces currently possesses some of the world's most advanced military technology.

After the Great Secessions at the end of the First Cold War, some of the Soviet military was divided among the new independent republics. However, because Yeltsin never rose to power, the Soviet military suffered, but not on a catastrophic scale. However, it did lose more than half of its expidenture, from $128 billion USD to $49.2 billion USD.

For some time, the Soviet Armed Forces was renamed the National Defences of all the Russias, refer to Russia proper, Little Russia (Ukraine) and White Russia (Belarus). Russia, Belarus and parts of Ukraine stayed together.

Stil, the Soviets maintained their integrity, by crushing Chechen militants in the Soviet-Chechen Wars, two times.

The Soviet military was heavily involved in the Balkan Wars, helping Yugoslavia remain together.

In 2000, Dmitry Olchekov became Soviet president. A hardliner of the Christian right, Olchekov promoted persecutions of non-Christians in the Soviet military, after the September 11 attacks, made being Ortodox or Christian a requirement to ever be a Soviet general.

Olchekov also tended to avoid all references to the term "Soviet", referring to the Soviet Union as "Russia" and his nationality as "Russian" rather than "Soviet". Olchekov made praying a requirement in Soviet military practices.

However, Olchekov managed to un-freeze the Soviet Union's military expidenture, increasing it slightly to $51.3 billion USD.

However in 2005, Olchekov was impeached by the Council of the Supreme Soviet, as Soviet leaders had feared that the anger and frustration caused by the country's Muslims-dominated republics would secede.

In 2010, the Soviet military became involved in the Syrian Civil War, as well as its succeeding conflict, the Levantine-Iraqi War. Moscow supported and backed the Bashar al-Assad regime. At the same time, Putin also introduced a plan to increase the Soviet military expidenture to $100 billion by 2016, however a lot of that money was pocketed.

In 2012, the Soviets backed a coup against the established government of Fuad Masum. This caused Masum, pro-American Iraqis, as well as American troops themselves, to flee to North Syria. However, the Soviets provided trapped American diplomats in Baghdad with armed protection, and safely escorted them to American troops stationed in eastern North Syria.

The Soviet government announced a plan to cut the size of the army, in order make way for funding the air force and navy. Of these plans, the Soviets plan to build a super carrier or two, along with the construction of at least 3,000 Sukhoi Su-27s. This is known as the Aerial-Maritime Plan. A later addition to the Aerial-Maritime Plan also included selling old Soviet Navy ships, so that the Soviets can build new ones.

In 2014, the Soviet government created the Civil Defence, a volunteer and paramilitary wing of the armed forces. It consists of non-uniformed members, trained by uniformed officers, who keep loaded firearms in their homes, vehicles, workplaces or any other dwelling, influenced highly by Switzerland's national defense doctrine, as well as the original Red Army and the 2nd Amendment of the American Bill of Rights. It is considered a true descendant of the original Red Army. Because of this, the Red Army's unofficial banner became the Civil Defences official.

By 2017, the Soviet military expidenture was $85.7 billion USD and $91.3 billion USD by 2018. An angered Putin approved the Anti-Traitor Law, requiring all Soviets with a net worth of $5 billion USD or more to contribute 10% of their total earnings.

Putin later explained his action by stating that he was frustrated with the political and oligarchic-pocketing of defense money, stating that the Soviet Union is a year and a half late from its expidenture goal.

Putin also stated that the Aerial-Maritime Plan would not go into effect until the expidenture reached at least $100 billion USD.