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What's Wrong With Russia's Military
The Infographics Show ^ | Apr 24, 2022 | The Infographics Show

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?


TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: 1putinsincharge; 2itsstillalive; 3unmotivated; 4incompetent; 5needs2shootofficers; 6russiasucks; chechens; chechnya; clownworld; hateamericafirst; infographics; invasion; maximumclownworld; pedosforputin; putinlovertrollsonfr; putinsbuttboys; putinworshippers; russia; russianaggression; ukraine; zottherussiantrolls
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To: Widget Jr

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.


101 posted on 05/12/2022 3:24:26 PM PDT by amnestynone (We are asked by people who do not tolerate us to tolerate the intolerable in the name of tolerance.)
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To: Widget Jr

Gas tanks outside on top of vehicle?

102 posted on 05/12/2022 3:26:25 PM PDT by MikeSteelBe (The South will be in the right in the next war of Northern aggression.)
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To: Crusher138

“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?


103 posted on 05/12/2022 3:30:48 PM PDT by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders.)
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To: Lurker; Travis McGee
Apparently their aim sucks.

Apparently you're calling the game in the fifth inning.

104 posted on 05/12/2022 3:35:26 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: kiryandil
The weapons from the West have to cross 500-600 miles of Ukraine to the tip of the AFU spear - under the eye of Russian air power, artillery and missiles.

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.


105 posted on 05/12/2022 3:37:09 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: freeandfreezing

freeandpollyanna-ing weighs in with the freshest unicorn farts of the day...


106 posted on 05/12/2022 3:39:07 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: freeandfreezing
Bracken posted about the Defense Politics Asia Youtube channel earlier.

Wean yourself from the Blue and Yellow "drank" being pushed by Liz Truss's MI6 agitprop boys & Zelensky Productions.

107 posted on 05/12/2022 3:42:44 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: kiryandil
“The weapons from the West have to cross 500-600 miles of Ukraine”

The rus nazis can't hit even 0,5% of the transports.

108 posted on 05/12/2022 3:43:27 PM PDT by Grzegorz 246
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To: Grzegorz 246

Hand-delivering the statistics to you, are they?


109 posted on 05/12/2022 3:44:52 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Nomad577

Best answer so far


110 posted on 05/12/2022 3:49:12 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: kiryandil
The rus nazis clearly have no clue what's going on more than a few km from the front lines. If they did, they would have won this war weeks ago.
111 posted on 05/12/2022 3:49:47 PM PDT by Grzegorz 246
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To: pburgh01

I love no one there. They can all kill themselves. But of course our retard in chief will get us involved.


112 posted on 05/12/2022 3:51:56 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: amnestynone

“.... 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!


113 posted on 05/12/2022 3:52:26 PM PDT by Reily
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To: freeandfreezing

And bush had weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. We all believed our republican leader.


114 posted on 05/12/2022 3:54:57 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: Grzegorz 246
The thing I like about the Poles is their stubbornness allows them to see through brick walls, in time.

A lot of time, in most cases. With attendant contusions, bleeding and scrapes.

115 posted on 05/12/2022 3:57:25 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Widget Jr

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™.


116 posted on 05/12/2022 3:57:35 PM PDT by Pilsner
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To: Tallguy

“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”.


117 posted on 05/12/2022 4:01:08 PM PDT by nomorelurker
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To: Reily
They may of had some good people. Just look at the population and there had to be some. But, just look at the country and where it has been over the centuries and their is nothing to be proud of if you are a Russian. In fact I would be embarrassed.
118 posted on 05/12/2022 4:01:51 PM PDT by amnestynone (We are asked by people who do not tolerate us to tolerate the intolerable in the name of tolerance.)
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To: Vaquero

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10805419/Solved-Gulf-War-syndrome-mystery-Gov-funded-scientists-blame-SARIN-released-air.html


119 posted on 05/12/2022 4:06:20 PM PDT by Oklahoma
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To: Boogieman

Or the old joke about Charlie Ward - the best Quarterback in New York plays for the Knicks.


120 posted on 05/12/2022 4:12:50 PM PDT by lowtaxsmallgov (eleven months to go - fire Pelosi forever)
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