It’s amazing how little Putin has reacted to the western allies shipping billions of dollars of arms to support the Ukrainians.
If anyone did that in one of our conflicts, it would be considered an act of war.
Putin realizes how weak his hand is and meekly accepts thousands of ATGMs a day crossing the border from Poland.
“If anyone did that in one of our conflicts, it would be considered an act of war.”
Well, don’t forget that both the Soviet Union and China armed North Vietnam and the VC to the teeth, and I don’t remember the U.S. declaring it an act of war by the USSR and the ChiComs.
Nixon went to both Russia and China. LBJ welcomed Kosygin to New Jersey. And all the while those nations were probiding NVN with weapons in abundance and sophistication. And in the case of air defense with actual Russian engineers and operators. So we did not consider those to be acts of war.
The Iranians supplied weapons and IEDs to Iraq. Pakistan armed the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Oh my friend, nothing could be further from 20th Century war history...
Without getting into the wars in Europe, Southeast Asia, or South America, Latin America, or Cuba, I can tell you from my own experience (in this case not anecdotal), we had thousands of casualties in both Afghanistan and Iraq, not due to ied’s, but high tech Russian anti-armor and personnel mines.
In two occasions, we were sent links to sites, where the Russians had recorded their own engineers watching and studying live, the destruction of our MRAP’s.
Beside the mass produced shaped charge mines they smuggled into Iraq from Iran, they also had Russian engineers experimenting from Iran.
In the cases above, everyone was vaporized, and sucked out 2-4” inch penetration holes, which were created by 3 phase liquified copper and nickel shaped charges. Literally just a bit of pink mist found inside the MRAP’s. The kevlar and body armor found in pieces inside.
In another video link, from our C2 SCIF, we watched a third take place within minutes after it happened.
One night on my way in, I literally dozens of rockets fly right over head, which we learned later that night, had come from one of several MRL’s recently smuggled in from Iran, and which had been set up to use remotely, to see how we would react. Again, we were sent a video link, where the Russian personnel had recorded themselves remotely firing the MRL’s. Those particular rockets hit Camp Liberty near BIAP.
These were not rare insulated incidents at all.
“If anyone did that in one of our conflicts, it would be considered an act of war.”
The Iranians did it to us in Iraq. Thousands of EFP weapons, to be specific. What did we do to them?
“Putin realizes how weak his hand is and meekly accepts thousands of ATGMs a day crossing the border from Poland.”
If he attacks Poland Article 5 would be invoked instantly.
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