Gas tanks outside on top of vehicle?
Posted on 05/12/2022 12:35:24 PM PDT by Widget Jr
For decades, Russia has been the world's second most powerful military. Today, it is the second most powerful military inside Ukraine.
How in the world did a nation with such a significant military overmatch get into a quagmire against a much weaker power?
Just what is wrong with the Russian military?
The Russians are a very mediocre people. They have never been able to wage war very well. In the Crimean war the only thing the Russian fleet was good for was to sink in the harbor and keep Sevastopol from being taken. The unperformed in WWI. They got beat in Afghanistan and now Ukraine. Remember Finland. The only reason Hitler was stopped was like Napoleon he ran into the Russian winter not because of anything the Russkies did. Most of Hitlers army was fighting us and England and allies. They were actually quite bad. Now they are a little country with a population not much bigger than half of the USA. They cannot rely on huge armies. You now have to bs mart and competent with a high moral trooper base which they do not have.
Gas tanks outside on top of vehicle?
“A mass launch would require a mass counter-attack.”
I worked with a liberal a long time ago that argued that if they mass launched, why should we respond in kind, because it will make the world’s living conditions worse so what is the point?
Who knows what the establishment would do?
Apparently you're calling the game in the fifth inning.
Russian artillery is good for about 25 miles from their front lines. Russian air power is barely usable over most of the contested areas, and the Russian air force can't even keep propeller powered drones from attacking their forces. Russia has been able to launch missiles against things like shopping centers and apartment buildings, and some fuel depots and train tracks.
But the Ukrainians have been able to move a lot of newly supplied weapons into combat quickly. You can see them in action, and in some cases you can see them being destroyed or captured in combat.
You should tell the Russians that were in the vehicles shown below that they can hit the battlefield without interdiction. That would be news to them.
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Wean yourself from the Blue and Yellow "drank" being pushed by Liz Truss's MI6 agitprop boys & Zelensky Productions.
The rus nazis can't hit even 0,5% of the transports.
Hand-delivering the statistics to you, are they?
Best answer so far
I love no one there. They can all kill themselves. But of course our retard in chief will get us involved.
“.... The Russians are a very mediocre people.....”
Mediocrities like:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_mathematicians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_composers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian-language_writers
I blame the mediocrity on the cold weather and the vodka!
And bush had weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. We all believed our republican leader.
A lot of time, in most cases. With attendant contusions, bleeding and scrapes.
The Putin Fanbois assure us that there is nothing wrong with the Russian Military, and all is going in accordance with Putin’s Cunning Plan™.
“To put that another way: Authoritarian countries can not have efficient military forces. It would be fatal to the regime.”
That gets to the Arab Spring. But they mostly survived it the “Government Forces”.
Or the old joke about Charlie Ward - the best Quarterback in New York plays for the Knicks.
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