Russia might be about to invade Europe.
Doubt that very much.
I doubt that very much as well.
Considering they supply a good bit of gas and energy to europe.
Someone has to explain the strategic advantage to doing so. It’s a blatant act of war and for what, exactly? And how do they think this will play out in the end?
It’d make more sense for them to invade into the middle east instead of eastern europe.
BenLurkin: Agreed. Putin is a good bluffer when it comes to serious opposition, and I don’t necessarily mean NATO troops, etc.
The youngin’s at FR don’t seem to know about atomic land mines. Yep, those little goodies who can take out a couple of miles of territory in one explosion, as in right in the middle of an invasion force, or air dropped amongst them, etc.
There used to be A-mines in Germany (I suspect the Fulda Gap had them and in surrounding areas), but since my source has passed away, I can’t guarantee that is where they were.
Land mines are put underground in known or suspected invasion routes, lying like dormant little critters until awoken by an electronic signal, and then, Ka-Boom.
It was a shame that we didn’t use them in Vietnam, just below the DMZ from the Gulf of Tonkin to the Ho Chi Minh Trail routes. A couple of them going off inside So. Vietnamese territory would have wiped out 3 NVA divisions in seconds. Now that is a real moral destroyer.
Yeah, I know we didn’t have the guts to do it. Nor did we take out the port of Haiphong, as an NVA senior military defector told me which would starve his troops in-country. They couldn’t live off the land and if we bombed the hell out of the HCM Trail in a sustained campaign, they would have been cut off from about 90% of their supplies.
Divisions cannot live off the land. Eventually they’ve got to move towards food supplies or starve. And our air power would be waiting for them.
Damned. I wish Westmoreland or Abrams or Cushman or whoever was the Secy of Defense in 1970 was at that meeting we had with these NVA field commanders. Hell, I wish Nixon was there too and I didn’t get to mention that to him in our briefing at the White House because of time constraints.
However, I’m sure it got to key members of his National Security Council, the knowledgeable ones on Vietnam, as well as the Kissinger cowards who prevailed and doomed SE Asia to communist domination and genocide.
Sometimes you just have to sit down and listen to the enemy. You’d be surprised what you might find out.
Really. Aren’t about 7 or 8 thousand of the tanks they’d need filling used tank depots in the Ukraine?
Let the bureaucrats in Brussels handle it.
“Doubt that very much.”
Doubt that very, very, very, very to tenth power much.